Live-tested against nc01 after its auto-update jumped to NC 34.0.4:
- Nextcloud's global jQuery has been deprecated since NC19 and is no
longer reliably present/first-loaded on NC34 (other apps like
serverinfo hit the same issue). occweb's index.js and the vendored
jquery.terminal (term.js) both assume a global jQuery, so ship our
own copy (js/jquery.js, 3.7.1 from code.jquery.com) and load it
before them in templates/index.php. Fixes a hard "jQuery is not
defined" crash that left the terminal blank (black screen).
- With that fixed, every ajax call started failing with HTTP 412
"CSRF check failed": core only auto-attaches the requesttoken
header to requests made through ITS OWN globally-loaded jQuery, and
with occweb now vendoring a separate jQuery instance that no longer
happens. A global $.ajaxSetup() call turned out unreliable (another
app's later jQuery load can replace window.jQuery afterwards), so
each of the three ajax calls (SQL query, initial completion list,
occ command execution) now sets the requesttoken header explicitly
via OC.requestToken.
Bump max-version to 34 - actually verified working on NC 34.0.4 now,
not inherited/guessed (see the policy comment in this same file).
Version bump to 0.3.5.
The previous version was in Dutch and hardcoded internal deploy details
(hostname alias, personal local path, private Gitea mirror domain) that
had no business being in a public repo. Replaced with a generic version
using <docker-host> placeholders; the internal nc01-specific copy now
lives at notes/deploy-nc01.md, which is gitignored and stays local-only.
Not rewriting prior history for this (confirmed with user: nothing
credential-level was exposed, just a hostname alias and a path).
35 was fanategorius's own tested value, but this is now a modified
fork (CSRF fix, admin checks, translated internals) - inheriting their
compatibility claim isn't the same as having verified it ourselves.
33 is the only version this fork has actually run on (nc01).
An untested max-version that's too high is worse than one that's
accurate: on the next core bump, Nextcloud's own compat check would
keep the app enabled on an unverified major instead of cleanly
disabling it, so a real incompatibility would surface as a runtime
error instead of a safe, expected "needs testing" disable.
Policy going forward (documented inline in info.xml): test against
the next major's beta ahead of time and bump max-version before that
major goes final, so the app is never caught by surprise - never bump
it reactively/speculatively.
README.md and install.sh's install instructions still told new users to
git clone the abandoned upstream (fanategorius/occweb), which lacks all
of this fork's fixes. Point those at dillardblom/occweb; leave the
Credits section's links to Adphi/fanategorius as-is since those are
deliberate attribution, not install instructions. Also repoint the
README screenshot badge, which was hotlinking Adphi's repo.
composer.json still listed only the original author; add ourselves
alongside, matching the info.xml author field.
Revert max-version 40->35: 35 was fanategorius's own tested release
value (commit 7c09dd2), not a guess. Bumping to 40 was our own
speculative headroom into an untested future major - exactly the
pattern this project's own history already reverted twice, for the
same stated reason ("hasn't been tested against newer Nextcloud
releases"). Getting auto-disabled by the compat check on an untested
major is the correct, safe failure mode; claiming compatibility we
haven't verified is not. 35 still satisfies the Codex finding (no
narrowing below a previously-validated ceiling) without guessing ahead.
Codex review flagged the previous 35->33 change as an unjustified
compatibility regression: nothing in this app's code is actually
incompatible with NC 34/35, so narrowing the ceiling only reflects
nc01's current version, not a real limitation. Worse, nc01's AIO now
auto-updates its core nightly (watchtower-aio), so pinning max-version
to today's exact version would very likely repeat the 2026-08-09
incident (occweb auto-disabled by the compat check) on the very next
core bump. This app only calls a handful of stable, long-lived OCP
interfaces, so a generous ceiling carries little real compatibility
risk compared to that recurring outage.
Was untracked locally and stale (referenced apps/ instead of custom_apps/,
git clone inside the container instead of our tar-based deploy). Documents
the two things that just caused a production incident on nc01: files
extracted from a tarball keep the source uid/gid and need an explicit
chown to www-data, and skipping the installed_version sync after bumping
<version> puts the whole instance in "needs upgrade" state, which blocks
not just occ commands but the web login page too.
Link it from README.md's install section.
occ status on nc01 reports 33.0.8.2, not 36 as assumed — match the
repo's established convention of pinning max-version to the actually
tested/installed core version rather than a guess.
query() runs arbitrary admin SQL (including DELETE/UPDATE) and was
exempted from CSRF protection — a leftover from the original upstream
code, which had this alongside @PublicPage (no auth at all) before our
admin-check hardening. The client already goes through the standard
$.ajax() flow that auto-attaches Nextcloud's CSRF token, exactly like
OccController::cmd() does without any such exemption, so removing it
has no functional cost.
Also bump nextcloud max-version to 36 to match nc01's current core
version, now that AIO auto-updates the core nightly.
Version bump to 0.3.4.
Covers OccOutput.php, DbController.php and js/index.js: docblocks,
inline comments, the forbidden-construct labels shown to admins in
error responses, and the SQL template descriptions shown in the
terminal (delete-user, list-user, rename-user).
Also backport OccController's getConfig() -> IConfig::class fix (deprecated
internal API -> stable OCP interface), spotted while comparing against
Git-Usr123/occweb.
index(), cmd() and list() were accessible to any logged-in user.
The navigation menu already restricts visibility to admins, but the
routes themselves were unprotected — any authenticated user who knows
the URL could execute occ commands or list all available commands.
Fix: inject IGroupManager + IUserSession, add requireAdmin() helper,
call it at the start of all three public methods. Matches the pattern
already used in DbController.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BufferedOutput::fetch() declares a string return type in Symfony 5+.
PHP 8.1 enforces return type compatibility with parent methods, causing
a fatal 500 error when the occweb page loads.
Fix: add ': string' return type to OccOutput::fetch().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New 'rename-user' template (templates / template rename-user <old> <new>):
best-effort uid rename across core tables (oc_users, oc_preferences,
oc_group_user, oc_group_admin, oc_ldap_user_mapping, oc_share, oc_mounts,
oc_storages). Explicitly NOT a supported Nextcloud operation - the
generated script carries an in-line warning (as leading SQL comments)
that app-specific tables (Talk, Calendar, Contacts, Mail, 2FA/WebAuthn...)
are not covered and that the data directory must be renamed on disk
manually, followed by occ files:scan --all. Documented the same caveat
in both READMEs.
- Hardened the round-2 transaction wrapping: beginTransaction()/commit()/
rollBack() are now wrapped in try/catch. PostgreSQL (our backend) has
fully transactional DDL so this wasn't actually broken here, but
Nextcloud also supports MySQL/MariaDB via the same IDBConnection, where
DDL implicitly commits - on that backend a DDL statement in the batch
would make a later commit()/rollBack() throw 'no active transaction'
and previously that exception was unhandled (HTTP 500 instead of a
clean JSON response). Now: if rollBack() itself fails after an error,
we report rollbackFailed+warning instead of falsely claiming rolledBack,
since earlier statements in that batch may already be permanently
applied. If commit() fails with nothing to commit (already
auto-committed), that's logged only, since the effects are already
durably persisted.
- removeAllComments() strips -- and /* */ comments before checking
FORBIDDEN_PATTERNS, closing a bypass where a comment inserted between
a function name and '(' hid it from the regex (e.g. pg_read_file/**/(...)).
- UPDATE now requires confirm=true just like DELETE (deleteCount/updateCount).
- Batches run inside a single DB transaction; a failing statement rolls back
everything already applied in that batch instead of leaving partial writes.
- splitStatements() (PHP and JS) now tracks a single quoteChar instead of a
bool, handling both '...' strings and "..." quoted identifiers symmetrically.
- Frontend TEMPLATES no longer rely on SET/current_setting: the escaped uid
is inlined into every statement, so partial copy/paste still works.
- renderTable() renders NULL as [NULL] instead of an empty string, so it's
no longer visually identical to an empty string value.
- Added MAX_SQL_BYTES (1MB) request size limit, returned as HTTP 413.
- Added a 120s client-side AJAX timeout with a distinct timeout message,
so a hung request doesn't leave the terminal paused indefinitely.
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