Nextcloud update using cli only

Nextcloud 14.0.4 -> Nextcloud 15

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Nextcloud can be updated using the Nextcloud command line interface only. Even your enabled apps will be updated as far as they are available on the Nextcloud app store. But first backup your Nextcloud system (database and data).

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Last Updates:

December, 13^th 2018:
– added shell scripts for Ubuntu and Debian

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sudo -s
cd /var/www/nextcloud
sudo -u www-data php updater/updater.phar

Press y to start updating your Nextcloud and y again to continue

Now the code was updated. Press n to disable Nextclouds maintenance mode and the update has ben finished already.

You are on the latest Nextcloud release – it can be verifed by

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ status
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ -V

At least modify Nextclouds .user.ini

sudo -u www-data sed -i "s/upload_max_filesize=.*/upload_max_filesize=10240M/" /var/www/nextcloud/.user.ini
sudo -u www-data sed -i "s/post_max_size=.*/post_max_size=10240M/" /var/www/nextcloud/.user.ini
sudo -u www-data sed -i "s/output_buffering=.*/output_buffering='Off'/" /var/www/nextcloud/.user.ini

Verify all apps are up to date

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ update:check

and restart both, PHP and NGINX.

service php7.2-fpm restart && service nginx restart

Keep it simple – download all as a shell script:

Nextcloud-upgrade-on-ubuntu.sh

Nextcloud-upgrade-on-debian.sh

That’s it.

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Enjoy your personal data in your secured and hardened Nextcloud-Server!

Don’t forget to backup your Nextcloud

Find more instructions here: Nextcloud Backup and Restore

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Carsten Rieger