Documentation

Our hard-working student volunteers (hereafter OCF staff) try to keep documentation plentiful and up-to-date, but it's always lagging behind.

We recommend starting off by reading the FAQ. If you experience difficulties that can't be answered here, feel free to contact us.

• About us
  • Officers
  • Where alumni have gone
• Communications
  • OCF Communication, 19 June 2020
  • Upcoming Student Technology Fund Renewal Vote
• Contact us
  • Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
  • Slack
• Frequently asked questions
• Joining the OCF
  • Banning policy
  • Eligibility
• Official documents
  • Archived documents
    • Old constitution (1989–2016)
  • Charter
  • Operating Rules
    • Bylaws
    • Constitution
  • Policies
• Privacy Policy
• Services
  • Account
    • Account policies
    • Content removal policy
  • Computer lab
    • Lab reservation policy
    • Printing
  • Database (MySQL)
  • Email
  • High performance computing
    • Slurm
  • Mastodon
  • Remote shell and file transfer (SSH/SFTP)
    • Command reference
  • Software Mirrors
  • Virtual hosting (group.studentorg.berkeley.edu)
    • Hosting badges
    • Mail virtual hosting for student groups
      • Using Gmail with mail virtual hosting
    • Subdomain migration FAQ
  • Web application hosting
    • Node.js
    • Python (Django, Flask, etc.)
    • Ruby on Rails
  • Web hosting
    • Backups/Archiving
    • Django
    • Flask
    • Jekyll
    • PHP
    • Ruby on Rails
    • WordPress
  • XMPP

Staff documentation

If you're feeling adventurous, why not take a look at the technical documentation intended for staffers?

Status blog

Having unexplained troubles? Maybe something's wrong—check out our status blog to get the latest info on maintenance and outages.