diff --git a/type/__nextcloud/man.rst b/type/__nextcloud/man.rst index 2a6ec9d..ba4d8c4 100644 --- a/type/__nextcloud/man.rst +++ b/type/__nextcloud/man.rst @@ -149,7 +149,14 @@ database-prefix WEBROOT DETECTION ----------------- -TBA. +As the `object id` is the install path relatively from the webroot, it must be +known somehow. Therefor, it will try to detect a good location for it. You can +set a custom webroot via the `--webroot` parameter. As default, following +directories will be checked if they exist to be the webroot: + +1. ``/srv/www/`` +2. ``/var/www/html/`` +3. ``/var/www/`` MESSAGES @@ -185,10 +192,68 @@ old destination and retry. It aborts if it should migrate to a SQLite database. This will be done before the upstream migration script is executed, as it would throw the same error. +The explorers will abort if they found a valid nextcloud installation, but no +installed `php`. Currently, this is intended behaviour, because it can not +safely get the current nextcloud version, also do not get the nextcloud +configuration. For more information, see the *NOTES section*. + EXAMPLES -------- -TBA. + +.. code-block:: sh + + # minimal nextcloud installation with sqlite and other defaults + # please only use sqlite for minimal or test installations as recommend :) + __nextcloud nextcloud --version 20.0.0 --admin-password "iaminsecure" \ + --host localhost --host nextcloud + + # more extensive configuration + __nextcloud cloud --version 20.0.0 --admin-password "iaminsecure" \ + --host localhost --host nextcloud --host 192.168.1.67 \ + --data-directory /var/lib/nextcloud/what \ + --database-type mysql --database-host "localhost" --database-name "nextcloud" \ + --database-user "test" --database-password "not-a-good-password" + + # install it in the webroot /var/www/html + __nextcloud html --version 20.0.0 --admin-password "notthatsecure" \ + --webroot "/var/www" --host localhost + + +NOTES +----- +This cdist type does not cover all configuration options that nextcloud offer. +If you need more configuration options for nextcloud, you are welcome to extend +this type and contribute it upstream! + +- `Nextcloud configuration reference + `_ + +Database migration is only partly supported if the database will be changed to +``mysql` or ``pgsql``, because it is supported by an upstream script. You are +welcome to extend this type for database migrations between the same database +type. For an implementation, you may use shell utilites like ``mysqldump(1)`` +(be aware that this may not already be installed) or use the already installed +php code to migrate. + +The type will abort if a valid nextcloud directory already exists in the +explorer execution, but no `php` exists to explore the setup. Therefor, the +manifest could not install `php` yet. This is not the case for a new +installation, as there does not exist a nextcloud directory with a valid +structure. While some code could be skipped and the other replaced with `awk` +with something like +``awk '$1 == "$OC_VersionString" {gsub(/['\'';]/, "", $3); print $3}' version.php``, +it is not handled for the following cases: + +1. This case should not happen very often. +2. Maybe because of ``libapache2-mod-php`` or ``php-fpm``, `php` already + exists for the cli. +3. While the `awk` replacement for the version is just a bit worser, it would + bring stable results, while it would be more difficult to dump out the + configuration without custom `php` or the help from ``php occ``. Therefor, + it would make false assumptions like it want to install nextcloud again, + do not delete configuration options and set all available nextcloud options + that are available through this type. AUTHORS