Config.php Parameters

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Introduction

ownCloud uses the config/config.php file to control server operations. config/config.sample.php lists all the configurable parameters within ownCloud, along with example or default values. This document provides a more detailed reference. Most options are configurable on your Admin page, so it is usually not necessary to edit config/config.php.

The installer creates a configuration containing the essential parameters.
Only manually add configuration parameters to config/config.php if you need to use a special value for a parameter. Do not copy everything from config/config.sample.php . Only enter the parameters you wish to modify!

ownCloud supports loading configuration parameters from multiple files. You can add arbitrary files ending with .config.php in the config/ directory, for example you could place your email server configuration in email.config.php. This allows you to easily create and manage custom configurations, or to divide a large complex configuration file into a set of smaller files. These custom files are not overwritten by ownCloud, and the values in these files take precedence over config.php.

Default Parameters

These parameters are configured by the ownCloud installer and are required for your ownCloud server to operate.

Unique identifier for your ownCloud installation

This unique identifier is created automatically by the installer.

This example is for documentation only, and you should never use it because it will not work. A valid instanceid is created when you install ownCloud. Needs to start with a letter.

'instanceid' ⇒ 'd3c944a9a',

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'instanceid' => '',

Auto-generated salt used to hash all passwords

The salt used to hash all passwords and is auto-generated by the ownCloud installer.

(There are also per-user salts.) If you lose this salt, you lose all your passwords. This example is for documentation only, and you should never use it.

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'passwordsalt' => '',

Define list of trusted domains that users can log into

Specifying trusted domains prevents host header poisoning.

This parameter reperesents a white list of approved IP addresses and hostnames that this server is known by / is used to access it. Wildcards, slash notation and ports are not supported. Do not remove this, as it performs necessary security checks. Please consider that for backend processes like background jobs or occ commands, the URL parameter in key overwrite.cli.url is used. For more details, please see that key.

When defined via the OWNCLOUD_TRUSTED_DOMAINS property in docker, the values should be a comma delimited list without white space. like OWNCLOUD_TRUSTED_DOMAINS=localhost,10.10.1.1. Wildcards, slash notation and ports are not supported.

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'trusted_domains' => [
	'demo.example.org',
	'otherdomain.example.org',
  ],

Define global list of CORS domains

All users can use tools running CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) requests from the listed domains.

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'cors.allowed-domains' => [
	'https://foo.example.org',
  ],

Define the directory where user files are stored

This defaults to data/ in the ownCloud directory.

The SQLite database is also stored here, when you use SQLite. (SQLite is not available in ownCloud Enterprise Edition)

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'datadirectory' => '/var/www/owncloud/data',

Define the directory where the crash logs will be stored

By default, this will be the same as the one configured as "datadirectory".

The directory MUST EXIST and be WRITABLE by the web server. Note that crashes are extremely rare (although they can come in burst due to multiple requests), so the default location is usually fine. Also note that the log can contain sensitive information, but it should be useful to pinpoint where is the problem.

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'crashdirectory' => '/var/www/owncloud/data',

Current version number of your ownCloud installation

This is set up during installation and update, so you shouldn’t need to change it.

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'version' => '',

Show or hide the ownCloud version information in status.php

This hardens an ownCloud instance by hiding the version information in status.php.

This can be a legitimate step. Please consult the documentation before enabling this.

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'version.hide' => false,

Show or hide the server hostname in status.php

Optional config option, defaults to hidden.

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'show_server_hostname' => false,

Show the short hostname in status.php

Optional config option, defaults to use the gethostname() return value.

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'use_relative_domain_name' => false,

Identify the database used with this installation

See also config option supportedDatabases

Available: - sqlite (SQLite3 - Not in Enterprise Edition) - mysql (MySQL/MariaDB) - pgsql (PostgreSQL) - oci (Oracle - Enterprise Edition Only)

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'dbtype' => 'mysql',

Define the database server host name

For example localhost, hostname, hostname.example.com, or the IP address.

To specify a port use: hostname:##; To specify a Unix socket use: localhost:/path/to/socket.

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'dbhost' => '',

Define the ownCloud database name

The name of the ownCloud database which is set during installation.

You should not need to change this.

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'dbname' => 'owncloud',

Define the ownCloud database user

This must be unique across ownCloud instances using the same SQL database.

This is set up during installation, so you shouldn’t need to change it.

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'dbuser' => '',

Define the password for the database user

This is set up during installation, so you shouldn’t need to change it.

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'dbpassword' => '',

Define the prefix for the ownCloud tables in the database

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'dbtableprefix' => '',

Indicate whether the ownCloud instance was installed successfully

true indicates a successful installation, false indicates an unsuccessful installation.

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'installed' => false,

User Experience

These optional parameters control some aspects of the user interface. Default values, where present, are shown.

Define the default language of your ownCloud instance

Using ISO_639-1 language codes such as en for English, de for German, and fr for French.

Overrides automatic language detection on public pages like login or shared items. User’s language preferences configured under personal → language override this setting after they have logged in.

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'default_language' => 'en_GB',

Define the default app to open on user login

Use the app names as they appear in the URL after clicking them in the Apps menu, such as files, documents or calendar etc. You can use a comma-separated list of app names, so if the first app is not enabled for a user then ownCloud will try the second one, and so on. If no enabled apps are found it defaults to the Files app.

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'defaultapp' => 'files',

Enable or disable avatars or user profile photos

true enables avatars, or user profile photos, false disables them.

These appear on the User page, on user’s Personal pages and are used by some apps (contacts, mail, etc).

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'enable_avatars' => true,

Allow or disallow users to change their display names

true allows users to change their display names (on their Personal pages), false prevents them from changing their display names.

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'allow_user_to_change_display_name' => true,

Allow or disallow users to change their email addresses

true allows users to change their email address (on their Personal pages), false prevents them from changing their email address.

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'allow_user_to_change_mail_address' => true,

The remember-login cookie is set when the user clicks the remember checkbox on the login screen. The default is 15 days, expressed in seconds.

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'remember_login_cookie_lifetime' => 60*60*24*15,

Define the lifetime of a session after inactivity

The web UI might send a "heartbeat" based on the activity happening in order to extend the session lifetime and keeping it from timing out prematurely. If there is no activity happening and the lifetime is reached, you’ll have to log in again.

The default is 20 minutes, expressed in seconds.

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'session_lifetime' => 60 * 20,

Enable session keep-alive when a user is logged in to the Web UI

Enabling this sends a "heartbeat" to the server to keep it from timing out regardless of any activity happening. This heartbeat will keep extending the session over again, so the user won’t be logged out even if he isn’t active in the web UI.

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'session_keepalive' => true,

Enable to force user logout

Force the user to get logged out after the specified number of seconds when the tab or browser gets closed. A negative or 0 value disables this feature.

Note that the user can still access the page without re-authenticating (having valid access) if the timeout has not been reached. The recommended minimum value is 5 or 10 seconds. Using a lower value might cause unwanted logouts for users.

Note that this feature works properly if the user uses one tab only. If a user uses multiple tabs, closing one of them will likely force the rest to re-authenticate.

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'session_forced_logout_timeout' => 0,

Enforce token only authentication for apps and clients connecting to ownCloud

If enabled, all access requests using the user’s password are blocked for enhanced security.

Users have to generate special app-passwords (tokens) for their apps or clients in their personal settings which are further used for app or client authentication. Browser logon is not affected.

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'token_auth_enforced' => false,

Enforce strict login check with user backend

If enabled, strict login check for password in user backend will be enforced, meaning only the login name typed by the user would be validated. With this configuration enabled, e.g. an additional check for email will not be performed.

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'strict_login_enforced' => false,

Define additional login buttons on the logon screen

Provides the ability to create additional login buttons on the logon screen, for e.g., SSO integration, see the following example structure:

 'login.alternatives' => [
   ['href' => 'https://www.testshib.org/Shibboleth.sso/ProtectNetwork?target=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.owncloud.tld%2Flogin%2Fsso-saml%2F',
    'name' => 'ProtectNetwork',
    'img'  => '/img/PN_sign-in.gif'
   ],
   ['href' => 'https://www.testshib.org/Shibboleth.sso/OpenIdP.org?target=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.owncloud.tld%2Flogin%2Fsso-saml%2F',
    'name' => 'OpenIdP.org',
    'img'  => '/img/openidp.png'
   ],
 ],

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'login.alternatives' => [],

Enable or disable ownCloud’s built-in CSRF protection mechanism

In some specific setups CSRF protection is handled in the environment, e.g., running F5 ASM. In these cases the built-in mechanism is not needed and can be disabled. Generally speaking, however, this config switch should be left unchanged.

leave this as is if you’re not sure what it does.

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'csrf.disabled' => false,

Possible values: Strict, Lax or None.

Setting the same site cookie to None is necessary in case of OpenID Connect. For more information about the impact of the values see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Set-Cookie/SameSite#values and https://web.dev/schemeful-samesite/

  • Use 'strict' whenever possible

  • If necessary relax to 'lax'

  • Use 'none' if it needs to be relaxed even further

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'http.cookie.samesite' => 'Strict',

Define the directory where the skeleton files are located

These files will be copied to the data directory of new users.

Set this to the empty string if you do not want to copy any skeleton files. A valid path must be given for this key otherwise errors will be generated in owncloud.log.

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'skeletondirectory' => '/path/to/owncloud/core/skeleton',

Define the user_backends app

Those need to be enabled first and allow you to configure alternate authentication backends.

Supported backends are: IMAP (OC_User_IMAP), SMB (OC_User_SMB), and FTP (OC_User_FTP).

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'user_backends' => [
	[
		'class' => 'OC_User_IMAP',
		'arguments' => ['{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX']
	]
  ],

If your user backend does not allow password resets (e.g. when it’s a read-only user backend like LDAP), you can specify a custom link, where the user is redirected to, when clicking the "reset password" link after a failed login-attempt.

If you do not want to provide any link, replace the URL with 'disabled'.

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'lost_password_link' => 'https://example.org/link/to/password/reset',

Allow medial search on user account properties

These account properties can be display name, user id, email, and other search terms.

Allows finding 'Alice' when searching for 'lic'. May slow down user search. Disable this if you encounter slow username search in the sharing dialog.

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'accounts.enable_medial_search' => true,

Allow medial search on the group id

Allows finding 'test' in groups when searching for 'es'.

This is only used in the DB group backend (local groups). This won’t be used against LDAP, Shibboleth or any other group backend.

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'groups.enable_medial_search' => true,

Define minimum characters entered before a search returns results

Defines the minimum characters entered before a search returns results for users or groups in the share autocomplete form. Lower values increase search time especially for large backends.

Any exact matches to a user or group will be returned, even though less than the minimum characters have been entered. The search is case-insensitive. For example, entering "tom" will always return "Tom" if there is an exact match.

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'user.search_min_length' => 2,

Mail Parameters

These configure the email settings for ownCloud notifications and password resets.

Define the email RETURN address

The return address that you want to appear on emails sent by the ownCloud server.

Example: oc-admin@example.com, substituting your own domain, of course.

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'mail_domain' => 'example.com',

Define the email FROM address

The FROM address that overrides the built-in sharing-noreply and lostpassword-noreply FROM addresses.

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'mail_from_address' => 'owncloud',

Enable or disable SMTP class debugging

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'mail_smtpdebug' => false,

Define the mode for sending an email

Modes to use for sending mail: sendmail, smtp, qmail or php.

If you are using local or remote SMTP, set this to smtp.

If you are using PHP mail you must have an installed and working email system on the server. The program used to send email is defined in the php.ini file.

For the sendmail option you need an installed and working email system on the server, with /usr/sbin/sendmail installed on your Unix system.

For qmail the binary is /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, and it must be installed on your Unix system.

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'mail_smtpmode' => 'sendmail',

Define the IP address of your mail server host

Depends on mail_smtpmode. May contain multiple hosts separated by a semicolon.

If you need to specify the port number, append it to the IP address separated by a colon, like this: 127.0.0.1:24.

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'mail_smtphost' => '127.0.0.1',

Define the port for sending an email

Depends on mail_smtpmode.

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'mail_smtpport' => 25,

Define the SMTP server timeout

Depends on mail_smtpmode. Sets the SMTP server timeout in seconds.

You may need to increase this if you are running an anti-malware or spam scanner.

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'mail_smtptimeout' => 10,

Define the SMTP security style

Depends on mail_smtpmode. Specify when you are using ssl or tls.

Leave empty for no encryption.

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'mail_smtpsecure' => '',

Define the SMTP authentication

Depends on mail_smtpmode. Change this to true if your mail server requires authentication.

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'mail_smtpauth' => false,

Define the SMTP authentication type

Depends on mail_smtpmode. If SMTP authentication is required, choose the authentication type as LOGIN (default) or PLAIN.

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'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',

Define the SMTP authentication username

Depends on mail_smtpauth. Specify the username for authenticating to the SMTP server.

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'mail_smtpname' => '',

Define the SMTP authentication password

Depends on mail_smtpauth. Specify the password for authenticating to the SMTP server.

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'mail_smtppassword' => '',

Remove the sender display name in sharing emails

Mail notifications about shares include the display name of the sharer in the email "from" address. This can cause some email filters to block these as impersonation attempts. Set remove_sender_display_name to true to not include this information.

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'remove_sender_display_name' => false,

Proxy Configurations

Override automatic proxy detection

The automatic hostname detection of ownCloud can fail in certain reverse proxy and CLI/cron situations. This option allows you to manually override the automatic detection; for example www.example.com, or specify the port www.example.com:8080.

Code Sample

'overwritehost' => '',

Override protocol (http/https) usage

When generating URLs, ownCloud attempts to detect whether the server is accessed via https or http. However, if ownCloud is behind a proxy and the proxy handles the https calls, ownCloud would not know that ssl is in use, which would result in incorrect URLs being generated.

Valid values are http and https.

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'overwriteprotocol' => '',

Override ownClouds webroot

ownCloud attempts to detect the webroot for generating URLs automatically.

For example, if www.example.com/owncloud is the URL pointing to the ownCloud instance, the webroot is /owncloud. When proxies are in use, it may be difficult for ownCloud to detect this parameter, resulting in invalid URLs.

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'overwritewebroot' => '',

Override condition for the remote IP address with a regular expression

This option allows you to define a manual override condition as a regular expression for the remote IP address. The keys overwritewebroot, overwriteprotocol, and overwritehost are subject to this condition.

For example, defining a range of IP addresses starting with 10.0.0. and ending with 1 to 3: * ^10\.0\.0\.[1-3]$

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'overwritecondaddr' => '',

Override cli URL

Use this configuration parameter to specify the base URL for any URLs which are generated within ownCloud using any kind of command line tools (cron or occ).

The value should contain the full base URL: https://www.example.com/owncloud As an example, alerts shown in the browser to upgrade an app are triggered by a cron background process and therefore uses the url of this key, even if the user has logged on via a different domain defined in key trusted_domains. When the user clicks an alert like this, they will be redirected to that URL and must log on again.

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'overwrite.cli.url' => '',

Define the Web base URL

This key is necessary for the navigation item to the new ownCloud Web UI and for redirecting public and private links.

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'web.baseUrl' => '',

Rewrite private and public links to the new ownCloud Web UI (if available).

If web.rewriteLinks is set to 'true', public and private links will be redirected to this url. The Web UI will handle these links accordingly.

As an example, in case 'web.baseUrl' is set to 'http://web.example.com', the shared link 'http://ocx.example.com/index.php/s/THoQjwYYMJvXMdW' will be redirected by ownCloud to 'http://web.example.com/index.html#/s/THoQjwYYMJvXMdW'.

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'web.rewriteLinks' => false,

Define clean URLs without /index.php

This parameter will be written as RewriteBase on update and installation of ownCloud to your .htaccess file. While this value is often simply the URL path of the ownCloud installation it cannot be set automatically properly in every scenario and needs thus some manual configuration.

In a standard Apache setup this usually equals the folder that ownCloud is accessible at. So if ownCloud is accessible via https://mycloud.org/owncloud the correct value would most likely be /owncloud. If ownCloud is running under https://mycloud.org/ then it would be /.

Note that the above rule is not valid in every case, as there are some rare setup cases where this may not apply. However, to avoid any update problems this configuration value is explicitly opt-in.

After setting this value run sudo -u www-data ./occ maintenance:update:htaccess. Now, when the following conditions are met ownCloud URLs won’t contain index.php:

  • mod_rewrite is installed

  • mod_env is installed

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'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/',

Define the URL of your proxy server

Example: proxy.example.com:8081.

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'proxy' => '',

Define a list of hostnames that won’t be proxied.

This option only applies if the proxy option is used Example: ['specific.hostname.com', '.sub.domain.com'].

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'proxy_ignore' => [],

Define proxy authentication

The optional authentication for the proxy to use to connect to the internet.

The format is: username:password.

The username and the password need to be urlencoded to avoid breaking the delimiter syntax "username:password@hostname:port"

Example: usern@me needs to be encoded as usern%40ame.

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'proxyuserpwd' => '',

Deleted Items (trash bin)

These parameters control the Deleted files app.

Define the trashbin retention obligation

If the trash bin app is enabled (default), this setting defines the policy for when files and folders in the trash bin will be permanently deleted.

The app allows for two settings, a minimum time for trash bin retention, and a maximum time for trash bin retention. Minimum time is the number of days a file will be kept, after which it may be deleted. Maximum time is the number of days at which it is guaranteed to be deleted. Both minimum and maximum times can be set together to explicitly define file and folder deletion. For migration purposes, this setting is installed initially set to auto, which is equivalent to the default setting in ownCloud 8.1 and before.

Available values:

  • auto default setting. Keeps files and folders in the deleted files for up to 30 days, automatically deleting them (at any time) if space is needed. Note: files may not be removed if space is not required.

  • D, auto keeps files and folders in the trash bin for D+ days, delete anytime if space needed (Note: files may not be deleted if space is not needed)

  • auto, D delete all files in the trash bin that are older than D days automatically, delete other files anytime if space needed

  • D1, D2 keep files and folders in the trash bin for at least D1 days and delete when exceeds D2 days

  • disabled trash bin auto clean disabled, files and folders will be kept forever

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'trashbin_retention_obligation' => 'auto',

Define the trashbin purge limit

This setting defines the percentage of free space occupied by deleted files that triggers auto purging of deleted files for this user

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'trashbin_purge_limit' => 50,

Define trashbin directory skip list

Define a list of directories that will skip the trashbin and therefore be deleted immediately.

Only defined directories and only in the root of a mount will skip the trashbin. Consider not to use reserved directory names when using snapshot capable storage systems. The setting expects folder names with or without trailing slash. All the content of such directories including their subdirectories will also skip the trashbin.

Code Sample

'trashbin_skip_directories' => [
	'temp',
],

Define trashbin file extension skip list

Define a list of file extensions to determine files that will skip the trashbin and therefore be deleted immediately.

Extension names are valid for all mount points, take care when selecting the names.

Values must not have a leading ".", otherwise corresponding files won’t be detected. Values are case-insensitive

Code Sample

'trashbin_skip_extensions' => [
	'iso',
	'mkv',
],

Define trashbin threshold size

Define a threshold for files to skip the trashbin and delete immediately Once the size of a resource is greater than or equal the given value, the trashbin will be skipped.

File sizes are valid for all mount points, take care when defining the threshold.

All positive numbers and zero is allowed. Append one of the following options directly and without space: B, K, KB, MB, M, GB, G, TB, T, PB, P

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'trashbin_skip_size_threshold' => "1GB",

File versions

These parameters control the Versions app.

Define the files versions retention obligation

If the versions app is enabled (default), this setting defines the policy for when versions will be permanently deleted.

The app allows for two settings, a minimum time for version retention, and a maximum time for version retention. Minimum time is the number of days a version will be kept, after which it may be deleted. Maximum time is the number of days at which it is guaranteed to be deleted. Both minimum and maximum times can be set together to explicitly define version deletion. For migration purposes, this setting is installed initially set to "auto", which is equivalent to the default setting in ownCloud 8.1 and before.

Available values:

  • auto default setting. Automatically expire versions according to expire rules. Please refer to https://doc.owncloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration/files/file_versioning.html for more information.

  • D, auto keep versions at least for D days, apply expiry rules to all versions that are older than D days

  • auto, D delete all versions that are older than D days automatically, delete other versions according to expire rules

  • D1, D2 keep versions for at least D1 days and delete when exceeds D2 days

  • disabled versions auto clean disabled, versions will be kept forever

Code Sample

'versions_retention_obligation' => 'auto',

Save additional metadata for versions

Save additional metadata (author, version tag, etc.) of each version of uploaded and edited files.

This feature CANNOT be temporarily disabled once enabled. Disabling and re-enabling would require a repair job that erases all extended versions metadata. WARNING: This does not work for S3 storage backends.

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'file_storage.save_version_metadata' => false,

ownCloud Verifications

ownCloud performs several verification checks. There are two options, true and false.

Enable or disable updatechecker

Check if ownCloud is up-to-date and shows a notification if a new version is available.

This option is only applicable to ownCloud core. It is not applicable to app updates.

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'updatechecker' => true,

Define the updatechecker URL

The URL that ownCloud should use to look for updates

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'updater.server.url' => 'https://updates.owncloud.com/server/',

Check for an internet connection

Is ownCloud connected to the Internet or running in a closed network?

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'has_internet_connection' => true,

Check for a .well-known setup

Allows ownCloud to verify a working .well-known URL redirect.

This is done by attempting to make a request from JS to https://your-domain.com/.well-known/caldav/

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'check_for_working_wellknown_setup' => true,

Define if config.php is read only

In certain environments it is desired to have a read-only configuration file.

When this switch is set to true ownCloud will not verify whether the configuration is writable. However, it will not be possible to configure all options via the Web interface. Furthermore, when updating ownCloud it is required to make the configuration file writable again for the update process.

Code Sample

'config_is_read_only' => false,

Define ownCloud operation modes

This defines the mode of operations. The default value is single-instance which means, that ownCloud is running on a single node, which might be the most common operations mode. The only other possible value for now is clustered-instance which means, that ownCloud is running on at least 2 nodes. The mode of operations has various impacts on the behavior of ownCloud.

The primary impact is, that clustered instances won’t download apps from the marketplace and install in one server. Instead the admin has to ensure that this happens manually on all servers. The same applies to config.php configuration settings done via occ.

Code Sample

'operation.mode' => 'single-instance',

Logging

These parameters configure the logging options. For additional information or advanced configuration, please see the logging section in the documentation.

Define the log type

By default the ownCloud logs are sent to the owncloud.log file in the default ownCloud data directory.

If syslogging is desired, set this parameter to syslog. Setting this parameter to errorlog will use the PHP error_log function for logging.

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'log_type' => 'owncloud',

Define the log path

Log file path for the ownCloud logging type.

Defaults to [datadirectory]/owncloud.log

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'logfile' => '/var/log/owncloud.log',

Define the log level

Loglevel to start logging at. Valid values are: 0 = Debug, 1 = Info, 2 = Warning, 3 = Error, and 4 = Fatal. The default value is Warning.

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'loglevel' => 2,

Define the syslog tag

If you maintain different instances and aggregate the logs, you may want to distinguish between them. syslog_tag can be set per instance with a unique id. Only available if log_type is set to syslog.

The default value is ownCloud.

Code Sample

'syslog_tag' => 'ownCloud',

Define the syslog format

The syslog format can be changed to remove or add information.

In addition to the %replacements% below %level% can be used, but it is used as a dedicated parameter to the syslog logging facility anyway.

Code Sample

'log.syslog.format' => '[%reqId%][%remoteAddr%][%user%][%app%][%method%][%url%] %message%',

Define log conditions

Log condition for log level increase based on conditions. Once one of these conditions is met, the required log level is set to debug. This allows to debug specific requests, users or apps

Supported conditions: - shared_secret: If a request parameter with the name log_secret is set to this value the condition is met - users: If the current request is done by one of the specified users, this condition is met - apps: If the log message is invoked by one of the specified apps, this condition is met - logfile: The log message invoked by the specified apps get redirected to this logfile, this condition is met Note: Not applicable when using syslog

Defaults to an empty array

Code Sample

'log.conditions' => [
	[
		'shared_secret' => '57b58edb6637fe3059b3595cf9c41b9',
		'users' => ['user1'],
		'apps' => ['files_texteditor'],
		'logfile' => '/tmp/test.log'
	],
	[
		'shared_secret' => '57b58edb6637fe3059b3595cf9c41b9',
		'users' => ['user1'],
		'apps' => ['files_mediaviewer'],
		'logfile' => '/tmp/mediaviewer.log'
	],
	[
		# special sql query logging
		'apps' => ['core/sql'],
		'logfile' => __DIR__ . '/../data/sql.jsonl'
	],
  ],

Define the log date format

This uses PHP.date formatting; see http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Code Sample

'logdateformat' => 'F d, Y H:i:s',

Define the log timezone

The default timezone for logfiles is UTC. You may change this; see http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

Code Sample

'logtimezone' => 'Europe/Berlin',

Define logging if Cron ran successfully

Log successful cron runs.

Code Sample

'cron_log' => true,

Define the maximum log rotation file size

Enables log rotation and limits the total size of the logfiles.

The default is 0 or false which disables log rotation. Specify a size in bytes, for example 104857600 (100 megabytes = 100 * 1024 * 1024 bytes). A new logfile is created with a new name when the old logfile reaches the defined limit. If a rotated log file is already present, it will be overwritten. If enabled, only the active log file and one rotated file are stored.

Code Sample

'log_rotate_size' => false,

Alternate Code Locations

Some ownCloud code may be stored in alternate locations.

Define alternative app directories

If you want to store apps in a custom directory instead of ownCloud’s default /apps, you need to modify the apps_paths key. There, you need to add a new associative array that contains three elements. These are:

  • path The absolute file system path to the custom app folder.

  • url The request path to that folder relative to the ownCloud web root, prefixed with /.

  • writable Whether users can install apps in that folder. After the configuration is added, new apps will only install in a directory where writable is set to true.

The configuration example shows how to add a second directory, called /apps-external. Here, new apps and updates are only written to the /apps-external directory. This eases upgrade procedures of owncloud where shipped apps are delivered to apps/ by default. OC::$SERVERROOT points to the web root of your instance. Please see the Apps Management description on how to move custom apps properly.

Code Sample

'apps_paths' => [
	0 =>
		[
			'path' => OC::$SERVERROOT.'/apps',
			'url' => '/apps',
			'writable' => false,
		],
	1 =>
		[
			'path' => OC::$SERVERROOT.'/apps-external',
			'url' => '/apps-external',
			'writable' => true,
		],
  ],

Previews

ownCloud supports previews of image files, the covers of MP3 files, and text files. These options control enabling and disabling previews, and thumbnail size.

Enable preview generation

By default, ownCloud can generate previews for the following filetypes:

  • Image files

  • Covers of MP3 files

  • Text documents

Valid values are true, to enable previews, or false, to disable previews

Code Sample

'enable_previews' => true,

Define the preview path

Location of the thumbnails folder, defaults to data/$user/thumbnails where $user is the current user. When specified, the format will change to $previews_path/$user where $previews_path is the configured previews base directory and $user will be substituted with the user id automatically.

For example if previews_path is /var/cache/owncloud/thumbnails then for a logged-in user user1 the thumbnail path will be /var/cache/owncloud/thumbnails/user1.

Code Sample

'previews_path' => '',

Define the maximum x-axis width for previews

The maximum width, in pixels, of a preview.

A value of null means there is no limit.

Code Sample

'preview_max_x' => 2048,

Define the maximum y-axis width for previews

The maximum height, in pixels, of a preview. A value of null means there is no limit.

Code Sample

'preview_max_y' => 2048,

Define the maximum preview scale factor

If a lot of small pictures are stored on the ownCloud instance and the preview system generates blurry previews, you might want to consider setting a maximum scale factor. By default, pictures are upscaled to 10 times the original size. A value of 1 or null disables scaling.

Code Sample

'preview_max_scale_factor' => 10,

Define the maximum preview filesize limit

Max file size for generating image previews with imagegd (default behaviour) If the image is bigger, it will try other preview generators, but will most likely show the default mimetype icon

Value represents the maximum filesize in megabytes Default is 50. Set to -1 for no limit.

Code Sample

'preview_max_filesize_image' => 50,

Define the maximum dimensions of the original image for preview generation

In contrast to preview_max_x and preview_max_y which define the maximum dimensions of generated previews, this setting limits the original image’s size.

Original images bigger than the defined dimension will not be processed.

Value represents the maximum dimension in the format width x height Default is 6016x6016.

Code Sample

'preview_max_dimensions' => '6016x6016',

Define the custom path for the LibreOffice / OpenOffice binary

Code Sample

'preview_libreoffice_path' => '/usr/bin/libreoffice',

Define additional arguments for LibreOffice / OpenOffice

Use this setting if LibreOffice/OpenOffice requires additional arguments.

Code Sample

'preview_office_cl_parameters' =>
	'--headless --nologo --nofirststartwizard --invisible --norestore ',
	'--convert-to pdf --outdir ',

Define preview providers

Show thumbnails for register providers that have been explicitly enabled.

The following providers are enabled by default if no other providers are selected:

  • OC\Preview\PNG

  • OC\Preview\JPEG

  • OC\Preview\WEBP

  • OC\Preview\GIF

  • OC\Preview\BMP

  • OC\Preview\XBitmap

  • OC\Preview\MarkDown

  • OC\Preview\MP3

  • OC\Preview\TXT

See the Previews Configuration documentation for more details.

Code Sample

'enabledPreviewProviders' => [
	'OC\Preview\PDF',
	'OC\Preview\SGI',
	'OC\Preview\Heic',
	'OC\Preview\PNG',
	'OC\Preview\JPEG',
	'OC\Preview\WEBP',
	'OC\Preview\GIF',
	'OC\Preview\BMP',
	'OC\Preview\XBitmap',
	'OC\Preview\MP3',
	'OC\Preview\TXT',
	'OC\Preview\MarkDown'
  ],

Define the jpeg preview quality

This setting defines the JP(E)G image quality in [%] for displaying thumbnails and image previews for apps like 'files_mediaviewer'. Note that this setting is for displaying only and has no impact on the stored thumbnail / preview quality or size.

The scale ranges from 1 to 100, where 1 is the lowest and 100 the highest. It defaults to -1 which is equivalent to approximately 75% of the original image quality.

Note that any value over 80 may result in an unnecessary increase of the displayed image and has larger responses sizes when requesting images, without much increase of the image quality.

For more information see: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagejpeg.php

Code Sample

'previewJPEGImageDisplayQuality' => -1,

Comments

Global settings for the Comments infrastructure

Define an alternative Comments Manager

Replaces the default Comments Manager Factory. This can be utilized if an own or 3rdParty CommentsManager should be used that – for instance – uses the filesystem instead of the database to keep the comments.

Code Sample

'comments.managerFactory' => '\OC\Comments\ManagerFactory',

Define an alternative System Tags Manager

Replaces the default System Tags Manager Factory. This can be utilized if an own or 3rdParty SystemTagsManager should be used that – for instance – uses the filesystem instead of the database to keep the tags.

Code Sample

'systemtags.managerFactory' => '\OC\SystemTag\ManagerFactory',

Maintenance

These options are for halting user activity when you are performing server maintenance.

Enable maintenance mode to disable ownCloud

If you want to prevent users from logging in to ownCloud before you start doing some maintenance work, you need to set the value of the maintenance parameter to true. Please keep in mind that users who are already logged-in are kicked out of ownCloud instantly.

Code Sample

'maintenance' => false,

Enable or disable single user mode

When set to true, the ownCloud instance will be unavailable for all users who are not in the admin group.

Code Sample

'singleuser' => false,

SSL

Extra SSL options to be used for configuration

Code Sample

'openssl' => [
	'config' => '/absolute/location/of/openssl.cnf',
  ],

Allow the configuration of system-wide trusted certificates

Code Sample

'enable_certificate_management' => false,

Memory caching backend configuration

Available cache backends:

  • \OC\Memcache\APCu APC user backend

  • \OC\Memcache\ArrayCache In-memory array-based backend (not recommended)

  • \OC\Memcache\Memcached Memcached backend

  • \OC\Memcache\Redis Redis backend

Advice on choosing between the various backends:

  • APCu should be easiest to install. Almost all distributions have packages. Use this for single user environment for all caches.

  • Use Redis or Memcached for distributed environments. For the local cache (you can configure two) take APCu.

Memory caching backend for locally stored data

  • Used for host-specific data, e.g. file paths

Code Sample

'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu',

Memory caching backend for distributed data

  • Used for installation-specific data, e.g. database caching

  • If unset, defaults to the value of memcache.local

Code Sample

'memcache.distributed' => '\OC\Memcache\Memcached',

Define Redis connection details

Connection details for Redis to use for memory caching in a single server configuration.

For enhanced security it is recommended to configure Redis to require a password. See http://redis.io/topics/security for more information.

Code Sample

'redis' => [
	'host' => 'localhost', // can also be a unix domain socket: '/tmp/redis.sock'
	'port' => 6379,
	'timeout' => 0.0,
	'password' => '', // Optional, if not defined, no password will be used.
	'dbindex' => 0,   // Optional, if undefined SELECT will not run and will use Redis Server's default DB Index. Out of the box, every Redis instance supports 16 databases so `<dbIndex>` has to be set between 0 and 15.
	 // Optional config option
	 // In order to use connection_parameters php-redis extension >= 5.3.0 is required
	 // In order to use SSL/TLS redis server >= 6.0 is required
	 // In a single-server configuration, prefix the host with tls:// like tls://localhost
	 // In a single-server configuration the SSL/TLS data **must** be in the stream section
	'connection_parameters' => [
		'stream' => [
			'local_cert' => '/file/path/to/redis.crt',
			'local_pk' => '/file/path/to/redis.key',
			'cafile' => '/file/path/to/ca.crt',
			'verify_peer_name' => true
		],
	],

  ],

Define Redis Cluster connection details

Only for use with Redis Clustering, for Sentinel-based setups use the single server configuration above, and perform HA on the hostname.

Redis Cluster support requires the php module phpredis in version 3.0.0 or higher.

Available failover modes: - \RedisCluster::FAILOVER_NONE - only send commands to primary nodes (default) - \RedisCluster::FAILOVER_ERROR - failover to replicas for read commands if primary is unavailable - \RedisCluster::FAILOVER_DISTRIBUTE - randomly distribute read commands across primary and replica nodes

Code Sample

'redis.cluster' => [
	'seeds' => [ // provide some/all the cluster servers to bootstrap discovery, port required
	  'localhost:7000',
	  'localhost:7001'
	],
	'timeout' => 0.0,
	'read_timeout' => 0.0,
	'failover_mode' => \RedisCluster::FAILOVER_DISTRIBUTE,
	'password' => '', // Optional, if not defined, no password will be used.
	 // Optional config option
	 // In order to use connection_parameters php-redis extension >= 5.3.0 is required
	 // In order to use SSL/TLS redis server >= 6.0 is required
	 // In a cluster configuration, prefix the seeds with tls:// like tls://localhost:7000
	 // In a cluster configuration the SSL/TLS data **must not** be in the stream section
	'connection_parameters' => [
		'local_cert' => '/file/path/to/redis.crt',
		'local_pk' => '/file/path/to/redis.key',
		'cafile' => '/file/path/to/ca.crt',
		'verify_peer_name' => true
	],
  ],

Define server details for memcached servers to use for memory caching

Server details for one or more memcached servers to use for memory caching

Code Sample

'memcached_servers' => [
	// hostname, port and optional weight. Also see:
	// http://www.php.net/manual/en/memcached.addservers.php
	// http://www.php.net/manual/en/memcached.addserver.php
	['localhost', 11211],
	//[other.host.local', 11211],
  ],

Define connection options for memcached

For more details please see http://apprize.info/php/scaling/15.html

Code Sample

'memcached_options' => [
	// Set timeouts to 50ms
	\Memcached::OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT => 50,
	\Memcached::OPT_RETRY_TIMEOUT =>   50,
	\Memcached::OPT_SEND_TIMEOUT =>    50,
	\Memcached::OPT_RECV_TIMEOUT =>    50,
	\Memcached::OPT_POLL_TIMEOUT =>    50,

	// Enable compression
	\Memcached::OPT_COMPRESSION =>          true,

	// Turn on consistent hashing
	\Memcached::OPT_LIBKETAMA_COMPATIBLE => true,

	// Enable Binary Protocol
	\Memcached::OPT_BINARY_PROTOCOL =>      true,

	// Binary serializer will be enabled if the igbinary PECL module is available
	//\Memcached::OPT_SERIALIZER => \Memcached::SERIALIZER_IGBINARY,
  ],

Define the location of the cache folder

The location of the cache folder defaults to data/$user/cache where $user is the current user. When specified, the format will change to $cache_path/$user where $cache_path is the configured cache directory and $user is the user.

Code Sample

'cache_path' => '',

Define the TTL for garbage collection

TTL of chunks located in the cache folder before they’re removed by garbage collection (in seconds). Increase this value if users have issues uploading very large files via the ownCloud Client as upload isn’t completed within one day.

Code Sample

'cache_chunk_gc_ttl' => 86400, // 60*60*24 = 1 day

Define the DAV chunk base directory

Location of the chunk folder, defaults to <datadirectory>/$user/uploads where $user is the current user and datadirectory is the datadirectory described here.

When specified, the format will change to $dav.chunk_base_dir/$user where $dav.chunk_base_dir is the configured cache directory here and $user is the user.

Code Sample

'dav.chunk_base_dir' => '',

Sharing

Global settings for Sharing

Define an alternative Share Provider

Replaces the default Share Provider Factory. This can be utilized if own or 3rdParty Share Providers are used that – for instance – use the filesystem instead of the database to keep the share information.

Code Sample

'sharing.managerFactory' => '\OC\Share20\ProviderFactory',

Allow schema fallback for federated sharing servers

When talking with federated sharing server, allow falling back to HTTP instead of hard forcing HTTPS

Code Sample

'sharing.federation.allowHttpFallback' => false,

Set this to true to display a quick action for creating public links in the filelist. A public link created this way will be read-only per default.

Note: if enforced password protection for read-only links is enabled, the quick action will not be displayed!

Code Sample

'sharing.showPublicLinkQuickAction' => false,

All other configuration options

Define additional database driver options

Additional driver options for the database connection, e.g. to enable SSL encryption in MySQL or specify a custom wait timeout on a cheap hoster.

Code Sample

'dbdriveroptions' => [
	PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA => '/file/path/to/ca_cert.pem',
	PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET wait_timeout = 28800'
  ],

Define sqlite3 journal mode

sqlite3 journal mode can be specified using this configuration parameter - can be 'WAL' or 'DELETE' see for more details https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html

Code Sample

'sqlite.journal_mode' => 'DELETE',

Define MySQL 3/4 byte character handling

During setup, if requirements are met (see below), this setting is set to true and MySQL can handle 4 byte characters instead of 3 byte characters.

If you want to convert an existing 3-byte setup into a 4-byte setup please set the parameters in MySQL as mentioned below and run the migration command: sudo -u www-data ./occ db:convert-mysql-charset The config setting will be set automatically after a successful run.

Consult the documentation for more details.

MySQL requires a special setup for longer indexes (> 767 bytes) which are needed:

[mysqld]
innodb_large_prefix=ON
innodb_file_format=Barracuda
innodb_file_per_table=ON

Tables will be created with * character set: utf8mb4 * collation: utf8mb4_bin * row_format: compressed

See: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-unicode-utf8mb4.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-parameters.html#sysvar_innodb_large_prefix https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/xtradbinnodb-server-system-variables/#innodb_large_prefix http://www.tocker.ca/benchmarking-innodb-page-compression-performance.html https://titanwolf.org/Network/Articles/Article?AID=58c487d4-7e0f-4fbe-9262-4285553ef443 (Using innodb_large_prefix to avoid ERROR 1071)

Code Sample

'mysql.utf8mb4' => false,

Force a specific database platform class

False means that autodetection will take place.

E.g. to fix MariaDB 1.2.7+ taken for MySQL 'db.platform' ⇒ '\Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\MariaDb1027Platform',

See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/mariadb/concepts-limits#current-known-issues

Code Sample

'db.platform' => false,

Define supported database types

Database types that are supported for installation.

Available: - sqlite (SQLite3 - Not in Enterprise Edition) - mysql (MySQL) - pgsql (PostgreSQL) - oci (Oracle - Enterprise Edition Only)

Code Sample

'supportedDatabases' => [
	'sqlite',
	'mysql',
	'pgsql',
	'oci',
  ],

Define the location for temporary files

Override where ownCloud stores temporary files. Useful in situations where the system temporary directory is on a limited space ramdisk or is otherwise restricted, or if external storages which do not support streaming are in use.

The Web server user must have write access to this directory.

Code Sample

'tempdirectory' => '/tmp/owncloudtemp',

Define the hashing cost

The hashing cost used by hashes generated by ownCloud.

Using a higher value requires more time and CPU power to calculate the hashes. As this number grows, the amount of work (typically CPU time or memory) necessary to compute the hash increases exponentially.

Code Sample

'hashingCost' => 10,

Define blacklisted files

Blacklist a specific file or files and disallow the upload of files with this name. .htaccess is blocked by default.

USE THIS ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Code Sample

'blacklisted_files' => [
	'.htaccess'
  ],

Define blacklisted files regular expression(s)

Blacklist files that match any of the given regular expressions and disallow the upload of those files. The matching is case-insensitive.

USE THIS ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Code Sample

'blacklisted_files_regex' => [
	'.*\.ext',
	'^somefilename.*'
  ],

Define excluded directories

Exclude specific directory names and disallow scanning, creating and renaming using these names. The matching is case-insensitive.

Excluded directory names are queried at any path part like at the beginning, in the middle or at the end and will not be further processed if found. Please see the documentation for details and examples. Use when the storage backend supports, e.g. snapshot directories to be excluded.

USE THIS ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Code Sample

'excluded_directories' => [
	'.snapshot',
	'~snapshot',
  ],

Define excluded directories regular expression(s)

Exclude directory names that match any of the given regular expressions and disallow scanning, creating and renaming using these names. The matching is case-insensitive.

Excluded directory names are queried at any path part like at the beginning, in the middle or at the end and will not be further processed if found. Please see the documentation for details and examples. Use when the storage backend supports, e.g. snapshot directories to be excluded.

USE THIS ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Code Sample

'excluded_directories_regex' => [
	'^backup.*',
	'.*backup$',
  ],

Define files that are excluded from integrity checking

Exclude files from the integrity checker command

Code Sample

'integrity.excluded.files' => [
	'.DS_Store',
	'Thumbs.db',
	'.directory',
	'.webapp',
	'.htaccess',
	'.user.ini',
  ],

Define apps or themes that are excluded from integrity checking

The list of apps that are allowed and must not have a signature.json file present.

Besides ownCloud apps, this is particularly useful when creating ownCloud themes, because themes are treated as apps. The app is identified with it´s app-id. The app-id can be identified by the folder name of the app in your apps directory. The following example allows app-1 and theme-2 to have no signature.json file.

Code Sample

'integrity.ignore.missing.app.signature' => [
	'app-id of app-1',
	'app-id of theme-2',
  ],

Define a default folder for shared files and folders other than root

Please note that this setting is skipped for guests and the root folder will be used for such users.

Code Sample

'share_folder' => '/',

Define the default cipher for encrypting files

Currently AES-128-CFB and AES-256-CFB are supported.

Code Sample

'cipher' => 'AES-256-CFB',

Define the file format for encrypting files

Define if encrypted files will be written in the old format (true) or the new binary format (false) which has a significant reduced filesize. Defaults to false.

With binary, only new files are written in the binary format, existing encrypted files in the old format stay readable. This guarantees a smooth transition.

Code Sample

'encryption.use_legacy_encoding' => false,

Define the minimum supported ownCloud desktop client version

Define the minimum ownCloud desktop client version that is allowed to sync with this server instance. All connections made from earlier clients will be denied by the server.

As shipped, the value here is the oldest desktop client that is technically compatible with the server. The version number seen here does not imply official support or test coverage on behalf of ownCloud.

Lowering this value may lead to unexpected behaviour, and can include data loss.

Code Sample

'minimum.supported.desktop.version' => '3.2.1',

Define the suggested poll interval for clients

Specifies how often clients should poll the server for changes.

The value is in milliseconds. The value is not enforced. Clients may use this value to decide how frequently to check the server for changes.

Code Sample

'pollinterval' => 30000,

Define whether to include external storage in quota calculation

EXPERIMENTAL: option whether to include external storage in quota calculation, defaults to false.

Code Sample

'quota_include_external_storage' => false,

Define how often filesystem changes are detected

Specifies how often the local filesystem (the ownCloud data/ directory, and NFS mounts in data/) is checked for changes made outside ownCloud. This does not apply to external storages.

→ Never check the filesystem for outside changes, provides a performance increase when it’s certain that no changes are made directly to the filesystem

→ Check each file or folder at most once per request, recommended for general use if outside changes might happen.

Code Sample

'filesystem_check_changes' => 0,

Define unsuccessful mountpoint rename attempts

This config value avoids infinite loops for seldom cases where a file renaming conflict between different share backends could occur.

The value defines how many unsuccessful mountpoint rename attempts are allowed. e.g. target mountpoint name could be claimed as unused by the filesystem but renaming to this target name will fail due to some other reasons like database constraints. Change this value only under supervision of ownCloud support.

Code Sample

'filesystem.max_mountpoint_move_attempts' => 10,

Define where part files are located

By default ownCloud will store the part files created during upload in the same storage as the upload target. Setting this to false will store the part files in the root of the user’s folder which might be required to work with certain external storage setups that have limited rename capabilities.

Note that setting this to false causes issues with the following apps: Encryption, Document classification, Anti-Virus and Ransomware Protection.

Code Sample

'part_file_in_storage' => true,

Prevent cache changes due to changes in the filesystem

When true, prevent ownCloud from changing the cache due to changes in the filesystem for all storage.

Code Sample

'filesystem_cache_readonly' => false,

Define ownClouds internal secret

Secret used by ownCloud for various purposes, e.g. to encrypt data.

If you lose this string there will be data corruption.

Code Sample

'secret' => '',

Define list of trusted proxy servers

If you configure these also consider setting forwarded_for_headers which otherwise defaults to HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR (the X-Forwarded-For header).

Code Sample

'trusted_proxies' => [
	'203.0.113.45',
	'198.51.100.128'
  ],

Define forwarded_for_headers

Headers that should be trusted as client IP address in combination with trusted_proxies. If the HTTP header looks like 'X-Forwarded-For', then use 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR' here.

If set incorrectly, a client can spoof their IP address as visible to ownCloud, bypassing access controls and making logs useless!

If not set, defaults to 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'.

Code Sample

'forwarded_for_headers' => [
	'HTTP_X_FORWARDED',
	'HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR'
  ],

Define the maximum filesize for animated GIF´s

Max file size for animating gifs on public-sharing-site.

If the gif is bigger, it’ll show a static preview.

Value represents the maximum filesize in megabytes. Default is 10. Set to -1 for no limit.

Code Sample

'max_filesize_animated_gifs_public_sharing' => 10,

Enable transactional file locking

Transactional file locking is enabled by default.

Prevents concurrent processes from accessing the same files at the same time. Can help prevent side effects that would be caused by concurrent operations. Mainly relevant for very large installations with many users working with shared files.

Code Sample

'filelocking.enabled' => true,

Define the TTL for file locking

Set the lock’s time-to-live in seconds.

Any lock older than this will be automatically cleaned up. If not set this defaults to either 1 hour or the php max_execution_time, whichever is higher.

Code Sample

'filelocking.ttl' => 3600,

Define the memory caching backend for file locking

Because most memcache backends can clean values without warning, using redis is highly recommended to avoid data loss.

Code Sample

'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',

Disable the web based updater

The web based updater is enabled by default.

Code Sample

'upgrade.disable-web' => false,

Define whether to enable automatic update of market apps

Set to false to disable.

Code Sample

'upgrade.automatic-app-update' => true,

Enable debugging mode for this ownCloud instance

Only enable this for local development and not in production environments This will disable the minifier and outputs some additional debug information

WARNING: Be warned that, if you set this to true, exceptions display stack traces on the web interface, including passwords, — in plain text!. Furthermore the content-disposition header will be lost and thus files will be displayed in the browser rather than downloaded. We strongly encourage you never to use it in production.

Code Sample

'debug' => false,

Define the data-fingerprint of the current data served

This is a property used by the clients to find out if a backup has been restored on the server. Once a backup is restored run sudo -u www-data ./occ maintenance:data-fingerprint To set this to a new value.

Updating/Deleting this value can make connected clients stall until the user has resolved conflicts.

Code Sample

'data-fingerprint' => '',

Define if you have copied the sample configuration

This entry is just here to show a warning in case somebody copied the sample configuration.

DO NOT ADD THIS SWITCH TO YOUR CONFIGURATION!

If you, brave person, have read until here be aware that you should not modify ANY settings in this file without reading the documentation.

Code Sample

'copied_sample_config' => true,

Enable or disable the files_external local mount option

Set this property to true if you want to enable the files_external local mount option.

Default: false

Code Sample

'files_external_allow_create_new_local' => false,

Enable or disable debug logging for SMB access

Set this property to true if you want to enable debug logging for SMB access.

Code Sample

'smb.logging.enable' => false,

Enable or disable async DAV extensions

Code Sample

'dav.enable.async' => false,

Enable propfind depth infinity requests

Tell the clients whether depth=infinity is allowed for propfind requests.

Streamed infinite depth propfind requests can reduce memory usage with large responses. For details see: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4918#section-10.2

Code Sample

'dav.propfind.depth_infinity' => false,

Show the grace period popup

Decide whether show or not the grace period popup. There is no change in the behaviour of the grace period.

Code Sample

'grace_period.demo_key.show_popup' => true,

The admin will be directed to that web page when they click on the "get a demo key" link in the grace period popup. It’s expected that the web page contains instructions on how to get a valid demo key to be used in the ownCloud server.

If this key isn’t present, ownCloud’s default will be used.

Code Sample

'grace_period.demo_key.link' => 'https://owncloud.com/try-enterprise/',

Order of login policies

The order of the login policies that will be checked, if any.

Policies must be registered in order to use / activate them. This is usually done automatically by core or the app containing the policy.

The names of the policies must be documented if they come from an app. ownCloud core provides the following list of policies:

  • 'OC\Authentication\LoginPolicies\GroupLoginPolicy'

In order to use / activate the policy, include the name in the policy order below, such as:

'loginPolicy.order' ⇒ ['OC\Authentication\LoginPolicies\GroupLoginPolicy'],

Multiple policies could be used as long as they are registered (the "SubnetPolicy" is just an example):

'loginPolicy.order' => [
  'OC\Authentication\LoginPolicies\GroupLoginPolicy',
  'OCA\CustomPolicies\SubnetPolicy'
],

The configuration of the policies depends on the policy itself, so they could be configured in multiple and different ways which are not covered in detail here.

Code Sample

'loginPolicy.order' => [],

Configuration of the Group Login Policy

Provide configuration for the 'OC\Authentication\LoginPolicies\GroupLoginPolicy' policy.

The generic configuration is, 'allowOnly' and 'reject' do not need to be both present:

'loginPolicy.groupLoginPolicy.forbidMap' => [
  '<loginType>' => [
    'allowOnly' => ['<group1>', ......, '<groupN>'],
    'reject' => ['<group1>', ........, '<groupN>'],
  ],
],

As an example:

'loginPolicy.groupLoginPolicy.forbidMap' => [
  'password' => [
    'allowOnly' => ['group1', 'group2'],
    'reject' => ['group3'],
  ],
],

Each login type can have a list of groups that will be the ones only allowed to log in using that login type, and also a list of groups that will be rejected from using that login type. Note that this applies to users belonging to those groups. If a user is member of an "allowOnly" group and also of a "reject" group, the "reject" will take priority, so the user won’t be able to log in using that login type.

List of known login types:

- 'password' -> for the login page and basic auth (like for webdav)
- 'token'    -> for app passwords
                using an app password in the login page will
                be considered as 'token' login type, not 'password'.

Types from different apps which have to be installed first:
- 'apache'                                    -> for the 'user_shibboleth' app
                                                 (data comes from the apache server)
- 'OCA\OAuth2\AuthModule'                     -> for oAuth2
- 'OCA\OpenIdConnect\OpenIdConnectAuthModule' -> for openidconnect
- 'OCA\Kerberos\AuthModule'                   -> for kerberos

In some rare circumstances, the login type could be the empty string. This could happen in earlier versions of the openidconnect app when using the web UI.

Code Sample

'loginPolicy.groupLoginPolicy.forbidMap' => [],

Enable Sending Telemetry Reports

Telemetry data is a subset of the config report as produced by the command occ configreport:generate.

Default: true

Code Sample

'telemetry.enabled' => true,