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Nextcloud is hosted on a VM at nextcloud.socs.uoguelph.ca. It consists of the following components:

• Nginx webserver
• php-fpm fastcgi extension
• /srv/nextcloud folder for application code
• /srv/nextclouddata is an nfs share from the SoCS central file server with Nextcloud data

Note: All php commands must be run from /srv/nextcloud folder as the nextcloud user

• Put Nextcloud into maintenance mode

  sudo -u nextcloud php occ maintenance:mode --on

• Stop the nginx server

  systemctl stop nginx

• Download the next major or a point release, which can be found from Download Now on https://nextcloud.socs.uoguelph.ca/settings/admin/overview
• Extract the archive to a temporary location
• Correct the file permissions with:

  chown -R nextcloud:nextcloud nextcloud

  find nextcloud/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;

  find nextcloud/ -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;

• Copy the current versions config.php file to the newly extracted folder
• Back up the current /srv/nextcloud folder (rename to nextcloud-version) and copy the temp folder to /srv/nextcloud
• Run the php upgrade script

  sudo -u nextcloud php occ upgrade

• Start the nginx server

  systemctl start nginx

• Disable maintenance mode

  sudo -u nextcloud php occ maintenance:mode --off

• Review the admin overview page for any security options or settings that must changed/fixed. https://nextcloud.socs.uoguelph.ca/settings/admin/overview