ownCloud Documentation

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.

License

All documentation in this repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY 3.0).

Style

It's 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

Manuals

At this point, this repository hosts three manuals:

• Users Manual: Covers topics from an end users Point of View
• Administrators Manual: Setup, Deployment, Best Practices, etc.
• Developers Manual: Developing Apps for ownCloud & understanding the core Architecture.

Versioning

The master branch is always the development branch. If a new server version is being released, the documentation is branched.

Building

First make sure that these things are installed

• Python 2
• Sphinx (e.g. sudo yum install python-sphinx), on Mac: sudo easy_install Sphinx
• Sphinx PHPDomain (e.g. sudo easy_install -U sphinxcontrib-phpdomain)

then enter any manual directory, then run make html. The result can be found in the _build/html subdirectory.