# ownCloud Administrators Manual

# Issues and Troubleshooting

If you have trouble installing, configuring or maintaining ownCloud, please refer to our community support channels:

- The ownCloud Forums

Note

The ownCloud forums have a FAQ page where each topic corresponds to typical mistakes or frequently occurring issues

- The ownCloud User mailing list
- The ownCloud IRC chat channel `irc://#owncloud@freenode.net` on freenode.net, also accessible via webchat

Please understand that all these channels essentially consist of users like you helping each other out. Consider helping others out where you can, to contribute back for the help you get. This is the only way to keep a community like ownCloud healthy and sustainable!

If you are using ownCloud in a business or otherwise large scale deployment, note that ownCloud Inc. offers the Enterprise Edition with commercial support options.

## Bugs

If you think you have found a bug in ownCloud, please:

- Search for a solution (see the options above)
- Double check your configuration

If you can’t find a solution, please use our bugtracker.

## Troubleshooting WebDAV

ownCloud uses SabreDAV, and the SabreDAV documentation is comprehensive and helpful. See:

- SabreDAV FAQ
- Webservers (Lists lighttpd as not recommended)
- Working with large files (Shows a PHP bug in older SabreDAV versions and information for mod_security problems)
- 0 byte files (Reasons for empty files on the server)
- Clients (A comprehensive lists of WebDAV clients, and possible problems with each one)
- Finder, OS X’s built-in WebDAV client (Describes problems with Finder on various webservers)