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h1. Owncloud cli cheatsheet

h2. Architecture 

* Owncloud by default is installed to /var/www/owncloud

* The apache conf file is in /etc/apache2/conf-available/owncloud.conf

** by default this redirects any http[s[://[url]/owncloud to the owncloud directory

** I often change this to redirect / to owncloud if on subdomain or office fileserver

* owncloud config file is in /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php

** note: if setting changes in the config file do not take, check the permissions for this file

* the owncloud directory also has a detailed .htaccess file that is vital to the security of owncloud

* The data directory can be found in the config file and is also the location of the owncloud.log file

** the data directory can and at office servers is often supplemented or replaced by local storage or SMB

* the backend database is mysql which is used by default for everything.

** some larger installs (ex. NDWA) use redis instead of mysql for file locking. 

* caching is performed by memcached or redis

h2. OCC

Occ is the cli command tool for owncloud. Through this tool most user/file/maintenance operations can be performed. 

detailed instructions can be found here https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.0/admin_manual/configuration_server/occ_command.html

key notes/favorite commands: 

* Occ must be run as the www-data user! 

** 8.0+ should no longer even allow running as root but if that happens there might be a permission mess to deal with!

** always use *sudo -u www-data php /var/www/owncloud/occ* (I have aliased this to occ)

* *occ upgrade* is needed for any major or minor release of owncloud!

** this will do a database upgrade test and then perform the upgrade

** for larger installs, this could take some time so only perform this during off hours. 

* *occ maintenance:mode --off/--on* this will gracefully close connections and turn on maintenance mode (or off)

* *occ file:scan [user]* this will rescan the file cache for [user] or --all for all

** this doesn't work for samba shares with OC login credentials as OC has no easy capacity for caching credentials for this purpose. (currently being worked on)

* *occ user:resetpassword [user]* will allow resetting a user password

* *occ user:lastseen [user]* will show when the user last logged in

* *occ user:report* will show a report of how many users are in the system

* *occ files:transfer-ownership USER1 USER2 -vv* will transfer ownership of all files from USER1 to USER2

h2. Command line upgade procedure 

* ssh into the server hosting the Owncloud instance 

* go to /var/www/owncloud/updater or /var/www/nextcloud/updater

* run this command 

<pre> sudo -u www-data php updater.phar </pre>

* wait a little bit! if it happens too fast, it didn't update. 

* In the web console, go to Overview > Settings to see if it updated. For example: https://cloud.rainforestfoundation.org/owncloud/index.php/settings/admin/overview

* Refer to "documentation":https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/16/admin_manual/maintenance/update.html#using-the-command-line-based-updater if needed.

h2. Docker upgrade procedure

* using a docker-compose setup

* go to nextcloud-docker folder (/opt/nextcloud-docker or /root/nextcloud-docker or wherever it was set up)

* @sudo docker-compose pull && sudo docker-compose build@

* if those two things work correctly, run @docker-compose up -d@

* then @sudo docker-compose exec --user www-data app php occ maintenance:mode --off@

h2. Old Upgrade Procedure

* upgrade package via apt-get 

* run @sudo -u www-data php /var/www/owncloud/occ upgrade@

** upgrade may take a long time

* after completing run @sudo -u www-data php /var/www/owncloud/occ maintenance:mode --off@