News: Missing config.ini

[amacchietto]

This message is repeated in the Nextcloud logs on a fresh news install on Nextcloud 16.0.1:

[PHP] Error: file_get_contents(/var/www/nextcloud/data/news/config/config.ini): failed to open stream: No such file or directory at /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Files/Storage/Local.php#216

[news] Warning: Configuration invalid. Ignoring values.

Looks like the Config.ini is failing to generate because the nextcloud data/news/config folder is missing. Manually generating the folder seemed to allow config.ini to be generated.

[brunob]

Does your webserver have permissions to wright in data/news folder ? You should check owner of this folder.

[amacchietto]

Yep. There are full permissions on the data and data/news folders for the apache user (I'm on CentOS 7.6).

drwxr-x--- 4 apache apache 4096 Jun 8 10:00 .
drwxr-x--- 14 apache apache 4096 Jun 15 09:45 ..
drwxr-x--- 3 apache apache 4096 Jun 8 09:46 cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Jun 8 10:01 config

[apiraino]

Confirming the bug.

In my case the config directory is not even created (Nextcloud data directory has rw access for web server user).

Dirty workaround:

• manually create a config directory in the Nextcloud News data dir
• assign proper permissions for web server user
• go to the Nextcloud admin > Apps > News
• slightly change any value
• the file config.ini will be automatically created

[Grotax]

So maybe something has changed in Nextcloud? Because at a quick glance i was not able to find anything in the news app that could cause this.

[apiraino]

possibly a way to reproduce could be having a 15.x NC instance and perform an update (maybe install the News app again from scratch?). In my case, as OP wrote, it happened while updating NC to 16.x

[JosFr]

I've got the same issue, don't know when this started but I use the News app for a long time. Suddenly I was unable to sync with cloudnews app on ios and checked the nextcloud log.
Also checked a backup of one week ago but the file is also missing there.
When I create config directory manually, the config.ini isn't created.
I use the latest nextcloud 16 on a updated Ubuntu 18 installation.

[JosFr]

Created the file config.ini manually with the following contents:

autoPurgeMinimumInterval = 60
autoPurgeCount = 200
maxRedirects = 10
maxSize = 104857600
feedFetcherTimeout = 60
useCronUpdates = true
exploreUrl =

As from this website: https://github.com/nextcloud/news/blob/master/docs/configuration.md and now the news app works!