nextcloud

Our nextcloud installation is running on lucius, which is currently running Debian jessie. The nextcloud application is instatlled from source.

Important details

• The application runs as the www-data user
• Directories:
  • The code is in /var/www/nextcloud.
  • The data (files) are in /var/lib/nextcloud/data.
  • Our configuratio is in /etc/nextcloud (symlinked from /var/www/nextcloud/config)
• We're using the postgres package not the mysql package. If you want to muck around in the database: su - www-data and then psql nextcloud
• We're authenticating using the login-service (web api).
  • That happens via our own mfplauth app, which depends on the ​external user auth app
• The admin username (mfpl-admin) and password are in keyringer. However, try to avoid logging in as mfpl-admin, and if you change any configuration options, /etc/nextcloud/config.php will get overwritten
• A 5GB per user quota is set. This is configured by logging in as mfpl-admin and then clicking to administer users. Quotas can be changed on a per user basis.
• To fix #8125, we've added our own custom theme called "mayfirst", which is in lucius.mayfirst.org:/var/lib/nextcloud/themes and it is activated via the theme => "mayfirst" line in lucius.mayfirst.org:/etc/nextcloud/config.php. Currently, it only adds a style sheet that simply hides the password change form.
• We have committed to maintaining four extra apps, which are installed in /var/lib/nextcloud/apps-local:
  • ​Documents
  • ​Calendar
  • ​Contacts
  • ​Grauphel (see #10305)
  • ​Bookmarks (see #10696)

Upgrading

Steps to upgrade from source:

• Visit ​https://nextcloud.org/changelog/ and download the appropriate version to /root using wget and unpack
• Create symlinks that mirror the symlinks in /var/www/nextcloud
• If upgrading a major version, backup /var/lib/nextcloud/apps-local and download new versions of all apps in /var/lib/nextcloud/apps-local, replacing the existing apps with the new ones.
• Copy /etc/nextcloud/config.php to /etc/nextcloud/config.php.bak
• Enter maintenance mode (edit to /etc/nextcloud/config.php)
• Backup the database with:

  su -c "pg_dump nextcloud" www-data | gzip - > nextcloud.pre.$(date +%Y.%m.%d).backup.sql.gz
  

• Ensure the dump completed successfully:

  tail nextcloud.sql
  

• Make a backup of the current nextcloud installation:

  mv /var/www/nextcloud /var/www/nextcloud.version.n.n.n
  

• Move the new copy in:

  mv /root/nextcloud /var/www/
  

• Ensure all database udpates have been run, su to the www-data user and then:

  su - www-data
  cd /var/www/nextcloud
  php occ upgrade