neo4j LOAD CSV returns Couldn't Load external resource - neo4j lost in directory

Question

Since I use Neo4j 3.0.1, this cypher query:

USING PERIODIC COMMIT 500  
 LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS  
 FROM >\"file:///home/user/Documents/links.csv\" AS csvLi         


        

Answer 1

This is a security that has been integrated in neo4j 3.0 in order to prevent scripts to load sources from an unwanted directory (like /etc/password for example.

You can add the following setting in conf/neo4j.conf in order to bypass this :

dbms.security.allow_csv_import_from_file_urls=true

Or just put your csv files in the import directory.