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Expand Up @@ -218,6 +218,16 @@ your HTTP user::

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud/

.. note:: ``www-data`` is the default web server user on Debian/Ubuntu systems.
On RHEL/CentOS/Fedora use ``apache``. The key requirement is that the web
server process user has **read and write access** to all Nextcloud directories
— ownership is not strictly necessary. In environments where changing ownership
is not possible (shared hosting, Docker bind-mounts, etc.), it is sufficient to
add the web server user to the group that owns the directories and ensure the
directories are group-writable, for example::

usermod -a -G vboxsf www-data

.. note:: Admins of SELinux-enabled distributions may need to write new SELinux
rules to complete their Nextcloud installation; see
:ref:`selinux_tips_label`.
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