Change configuration hint on admin page

[tflidd]

If the data/-directory is accessible, the admin page will show this advice:

We strongly suggest that you configure your web server in a way that the data directory is no longer accessible or you move the data directory outside the web server document root.

The problem is that we do not support moving the data directory:
owncloud-archive/documentation#2303

[PVince81]

Right... the only moment when it's ok to move the data directory is directly after the install, before any user data has been written.

[tflidd]

Unfortunately, it is quite popular to change the data-directory and many point like this indicate that it is possible. Is there a way to make it possible? We could check in database, which apps use the absolute path so it can be fixed there (either don't use it from the database at all or provide an occ-command to allow a migration).

[PVince81]

It is not directly possible, because after moving the data folder, ownCloud has no way to know what the old folder was. And oc_storages is a big mess, we can't directly trust which paths it uses.

Now thinking of it, maybe if there was an "occ" command "occ maintenance:migrate-data-folder /path/to/target" it could take care of changing everything that's needed.

[PVince81]

Closing in favor of #25970

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