Support for config files outside the installation

[dartcafe]

I would like to see support for config files outside the installation dir. I can manage this with an include or include_once directive, but I fear nextcloud will have problems, when it tries to write somethin to the config.php.

A single directive like
$CONFIG = array ( 'config_file' => '/path/config.php', ); could offer this possibility.

[MorrisJobke]

I would say, that adding more complexity to this does not make our life as maintainers easier. If you want this, then there are multiple ways:

• create a file named abc.config.php inside of config/ and it will be loaded as well and merged with the existing config.php
• combined the first with a symlink you could accomplish your wanted behaviour
• use environment variables to inject configuration: see Override config.php values through environment variables  #3966 - basically NC_datadir to configure the data directory

I hope this solves the problems you are experiencing.

If not we are happy to look into it in further detail.