How to administrate self-hosted owncloud on a linux server

[tomt]

I installed owncloud on a linux server. How can I access owncloud as an administrator since I can’t use any webbrowser on a linux server? Do I have to use occ? If yes: is there a list of commands or manual for occ?

[alfredb]

Please see here:

Using the occ Command

[tomt]

Thanks for the link. Is there something like a walkthrough of a minimal set of steps to just be able to test it? Is it enough to add a user and then trying to connect to my owncloud server using that user via the connection wizard?

[alfredb]

No sure whether I understand you. What connection wizard?
Some administration tasks can be done via the web-frontend, but some of them require an ssh session for running the occ commands.

[tomt]

I mean the owncloud desktop app. If I add a new user, this user should be able to use the owncloud desktop app to connect to my owncloud server right away, right?

[alfredb]

Yes, I’d expect that. But I don’t use the desktop client, thus no experience here.

[eneubauer]

@tomt

How can I access owncloud as an administrator since I can’t use any webbrowser on a linux server?

Just connect to the ownCloud URL with your owncloud admin credentials created in the occ maintenance:install ... step from any desktop?

[tomt]

Using a web browser? I tried this. I am directed to this page:

No options to log in.

[tomt]

I had the same misunderstanding as described here:

Untrusted domains, local network

Thanks alfredb, your were right (of course), but as I have been stumbling on the same problem the last two hours, I think there is an easy misunderstanding of what the ‘trusted_domains’ keyword exactly means. Just quoting: ‘both are related to the server, not the accessing client’ is true but also a bit cryptic. People like myself will first think that ‘trusted_domains’ is their (client) ip or ip range, while it is not. ‘trusted_domains’ is actually what you type in your client browser to…

I adjusted my config.php and it works now.

Thanks.