This is the ownCloud documentation. It currently focuses on the server, client manuals are in the respective git repositories. Because of the complexity of the server and the split into the core and apps modules, the manuals are in this separate directory.
Documentation is published on https://doc.owncloud.org and https://doc.owncloud.com.
The documentation Wiki https://github.com/owncloud/documentation/wiki is available for tips, tricks, edge cases, and anyone who wants to contribute more easily, without using Git and Sphinx.
At this point, this repository hosts three manuals:
- Users Manual: Covers topics from an end user's Point of View
- Administrators Manual: Setup, Deployment, Best Practices, etc.
- Developers Manual: Developing Apps for ownCloud & understanding the core Architecture.
Please work in the appropriate branch. stable6 is for ownCloud 6, stable7 is for ownCloud 7, and stable8 is 8.0, stable8.1 is 8.1, and master is version 8.2.
Please wrap lines at 80 characters.
Note
configuration_server/config_sample_php_parameters.rst
is auto-generated from the core config.sample.php file; changes to this file must be made in core https://github.com/owncloud/core/tree/master/config
ownCloud Apps Store
All documentation in this repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY 3.0).
It is using the Sphinx Documentation Generator. The syntax follows the reStructuredText style, and can also be edited from GitHub.
For PHP documentation you'll need to get the according language domain package. The documenation for PHP source is located at http://packages.python.org/sphinxcontrib-phpdomain/reference.html
Contributing to the documentation requires a github account.
To edit a document, either do a checkout of the repository and edit the rst files from there, or work directly on github. The latter is only really suitable for small fixes and improvements because substantial editing efforts can better be controlled in an editor.
To edit on github, fork the repository (see top-right of the screen, under your username). You will then be able to make changes easily. Once done, you can create a pull request and get the changes reviewed and back into the official repository.
First, make sure that the following are installed:
- Python 2 (2.6.0 or better, Python 3 is not yet supported!)
- Python Image Library (PIL) - (the package is called something like
python-pillow
) - Sphinx (e.g.
sudo yum install python-sphinx
), on Mac:sudo easy_install Sphinx
- Sphinx PHPDomain (e.g.
sudo easy_install sphinxcontrib-phpdomain
) - rst2pdf (e.g.
sudo easy_install rst2pdf
) If you're on Arch Linux, the build script is called sphinx-build2 which will fail. You will need to provide a link to the expected script name:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/sphinx-build2 /usr/bin/sphinx-build
...then enter any manual directory, then run make html
. The result can be found in the _build/html
subdirectory. PDFs can be built with the make latexpdf
command and are found in _build/latex/ directory.
- sudo zypper in python-Sphinx
- sudo zypper in python-rst2pdf
- sudo zypper in python-sphinxcontrib-phpdomain # requires repository "devel:languages:python"
- sudo zypper in pdfjam # pull in latexpdf and all of texlive
- sudo zypper in texlive-threeparttable
- sudo zypper in texlive-wrapfig
- sudo zypper in texlive-multirow
- cd user_manual
- make latexpdf
- okular _build/latex/ownCloudUserManual.pdf
- sudo apt-get install python-pil
- sudo apt-get install python-sphinx
- sudo apt-get install python-sphinxcontrib.phpdomain
- sudo apt-get install rst2pdf
- sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended
- sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra
- sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended
- cd user_manual
- make latexpdf
- evince _build/latex/ownCloudUserManual.pdf
- sudo pacman -S community/python2-rst2pdf
- sudo pacman -S community/python2-sphinx
- aur/sphinxcontrib-phpdomain from AUR
- sudo pacman -S extra/texlive-core texlive-latexextra
- cd user_manual
- make latexpdf
- PDFVIEWER _build/latex/ownCloudUserManual.pdf
Running setup.cmd
will install Python 2.7 and install all dependencies.
Enter any manual and clicking the "Build HTML" shortcut will create a HTML build. Likewise, "Build PDF" will build the PDF using the more lightweight, but feature-incomplete RST2PDF tool. The results are in _build/html
and _build/pdf
respectively.
Sometimes, existing documentation might be in Word or LibreOffice documents. To make it part of this documentation collection, follow these steps:
Prerequisites ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Install Python 2.x
- Install odt2sphinx (
easy_install odt2sphinx
) - Install GCC/clang (Xcode command line tools required on Mac OS)
doc/docx
files need to be stored as odt first- Run
odt2sphinx my.docx
- Move the resulting
rst
files in place and reference them - Wrap text lines at 80 chars, apply markup fixes