Cypher Neo4j Couldn't load the external resource

Question

In a Windows environment, I\'m trying to load a .csv file with statement:

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM \"file:///E:/Neo4j/customers.csv\" AS row

Answer 1

On (Arch) Linux + neo4j-community-3.4.0-alpha09, edit $NEO4J_HOME/conf /neo4j.conf:

• uncomment or add: dbms.security.allow_csv_import_from_file_urls=true
• comment: #dbms.directories.import=import

Restart neo4j (in terminal: neo4j restart), and reload the Neo4j Browser (http://localhost:7474/browser/) if you are using a web browser as your Neo4j interface/GUI.

Then, you should be able to load a csv from outside your $NEO4J_HOME/... directory

E.g.,

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "file:///mnt/Vancouver/Programming/data/metabolism/practice/a.csv" AS ...

where my $NEO4J_HOME/ is /mnt/Vancouver/apps/neo4j/neo4j-community-3.4.0-alpha09/

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "file:/mnt/Vancouver/Programming/data/metabolism/practice/a.csv" AS ...

also works, but not

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "file://mnt/Vancouver/Programming/data/metabolism/practice/a.csv" AS...

or

LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "/mnt/Vancouver/Programming/data/metabolism/practice/a.csv" AS...

i.e. use ...file:/... or ...file:///...