# ownCloud Administrators Manual

# ownCloud 6.0 Admin Documentation

## Introduction

This is the administrators manual for ownCloud, a flexible, open source file sync and share solution. It comprises of the ownCloud server, as well as client applications for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (Desktop Client) and mobile clients for the Android and Apple iOS operating system.

### Target audience

This guide is targeted towards people who want to install, administer and optimize ownCloud Server. If you want to learn how to use the Web UI, or how to install clients on the server, please refer to the User Manual or the Desktop Client Manual respectively.

### Structure of this document

The next chapters describes how to set up ownCloud Server on different platforms and operating systems, as well as how to update existing installations.

Further chapters will then detail on integrating ownCloud into your existing environment, e.g. how to setup LDAP or how to mount your storage.

## Installation

This chapter will introduce you to the installation of ownCloud in different scenarios.

If you want to just try ownCloud in a virtual machine without any configuration, check the section Appliances, where you will find ready-to-use images.

- Linux Distributions (recommended)
- Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008
- Manual Installation
- Other Installation Methods
- Univention Corporate Server
- Mac OS X (not supported)
- Appliances

## Configuration

This chapter covers ownCloud and web server configuration.

- Managing Apps
- User Management
- MySQL/Postgres/SQLite Support
- LDAP Authentication
- Driving Events with Cron
- Quota Calculation
- Custom Mount Configuration Web-GUI
- Custom Mount Configuration
- Background Jobs
- Sending Mail Notifications
- Automatic Configuration
- Using Server-Side Encryption
- Dealing with Big File Uploads
- Reverse Proxy Configuration
- Serving static files via web server
- Find Third-Party Libraries
- Custom User Backend Configuration
- Customizing Client Download Links
- Enable Maintenance Mode
- Disable Knowledge Base
- Configure Logging
- Setting the Default Language

Finally, the chapter The Configuration File details on the switches in the `config.php` file.

## Apps

This chapter covers individual ownCloud apps.

- Activity
- Finding Deployment Dependencies
- File Antivirus Engine
- Encryption
- External storage support
- Sharing
- Deleted Files
- Versions
- First Run Wizard
- LDAP user and group backend
- File Viewers

## Maintenance

This chapter covers maintenance tasks such as updating or migrating to a new version.

- Migrating ownCloud Installations
- Updating ownCloud