# ownCloud Administrators Manual

# Introduction

Welcome to the ownCloud Administrator Guide. This guide describes administrator tasks for ownCloud; a flexible, open source, file synchronization and sharing solution. ownCloud is comprised of a server running on either a Linux or Microsoft Word platform as well as client applications for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (Desktop Client) and mobile clients for both the Android and Apple iOS operating system.

## Target Audience

This guide is targeted towards people who want to install, administer, and optimize the ownCloud server. If you want to learn more about the ownCloud Web user interface or how to install clients on the server, refer to the following:

- User Manual
- Desktop Client Manual

## Document Structure

This document is broken out into three major sections – Installation, Configuration, and Maintenance. The following sections provide detailed information about various tasks associated with each of these sections.

### Installation

This section provides detailed instructions on how to install ownCloud in different scenarios. It contains the following topics:

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

Note

If you just want to try out ownCloud in a virtual machine, without any configuration, refer to Appliances. For your convenience, this topic contains ready-to-use images.

### Configuration

This section describes how to configure ownCloud and your web server. It contains the following topics:

- Apps Configuration
- File Sharing
- User Management
- Database Configuration
- User Authentication with LDAP
- Configuring Server-to-Server Sharing
- Configuring External Storage (GUI)
- Configuring External Storage (Configuration File)
- Defining Background Jobs
- Mail Configuration
- Defining Automatic Configuration
- Using Server-Side Encryption
- Uploading big files > 512MB (as set by default)
- Reverse Proxy Configuration
- Serving static files via web server
- Using Third Party Components
- Custom User Backend Configuration
- Custom Client Configuration
- Knowledge Base Configuration
- Logging Configuration
- Language Configuration
- Configuring the ClamAV Antivirus Scanner
- Preview Configuration
- Enabling Full-Text Search
- Config.php Parameters

### Maintenance

This sections describes the maintenance tasks associated with the ownCloud server (for example, updating or migrating to a new version of ownCloud). It contains the following topics:

- Maintenance Mode Configuration
- Backing up ownCloud
- Updating ownCloud with the Updater App
- Upgrading Your ownCloud Server
- Restoring ownCloud
- Migrating ownCloud Installations
- Converting Database Type