Feature: Setup Sanity check

[lab-at-nohl]

Please introduce a framework to implement sanity checks into setup.php. Checks should run in batch on click (or initiated by CLI).

Possible features are:

• Lately users had issues due to not eliminated files. E.g. matomo (piwik) does checks on file integrity. As a result it shows files that do not belong to the installation
• To check on file permissions might be a good idea, too.
• Also a common source for issues is an invalid DB structure. In my understanding the file <APP>/Setup/setup.xml provide the structure of the target model (whereas one cannot see if update scripts ran sucessfully)
• Additional checks could test for utf8mb4 or similar
• Functioning of httpd routing/rewrites for ActiveSync and WebDAV

[pschuele]

hi Johannes,
good idea, I'll discuss that with the team.
we already have some kind of framework here: \Setup_Controller::checkRequirements - we could enhance that and add additional checks there.
it is also callable via cli:

$ php setup.php --check_requirements
OK - All requirements are met
The following optional binaries are missing:  tika

[pschuele]

Also a common source for issues is an invalid DB structure. In my understanding the file /Setup/setup.xml provide the structure of the target model (whereas one cannot see if update scripts ran sucessfully)

this is already implemented as a separate cli function (chich shows the differences and even allows to fix the structure):

setup.php --compare -- otherdb=tine20other

caveat: you have make a fresh install into "tine20other" to be able to compare the 2 databases.