Running Updater after manual upgrade on shared hosting runs in timeout

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Nextcloud version (eg, 12.0.2): 16.0.4
PHP version (eg, 7.1): 7.3

I followed the steps for manual upgrade because web updater is running in timeouts while doing the backup.

How to upgrade
Manual Upgrade with Shared Hosting/Webhosting

So I

  • download and extract the nextcloud files for 16.0.9
  • set maintenance to true
  • copied config.php, data and 3rd party apps to directory of new version
  • renamed old version to “nc_old” and new version to “nc”
  • set maintenance to false
  • opened my instance via browser and clicked “upgrade”

I’m running in a timeout here again. Web Updater says I "to prevent timeouts use ./occ upgrade", but I’m not able to do this on sharedHosting (I have SSH access but can not run sudo commands, so I get a "permission denied when running ./occ upgrade).

So: How can I finish the upgrade process after manual file update on a system without sudo permissions?

Thank you for your responses!

config.php

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => 'oc6cbvwhknq6',
  'passwordsalt' => 'IZZ3cW55Q8sAseDOnuKjcX7ux2AV+7',
  'secret' => 'ztM77bf0X8IOfkwmvMA6unDtO21SeHVCYZnUPEOyw64v4OdT',
  'trusted_domains' => 
  array (
    0 => '********',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/var/www/vhosts/*********/httpdocs/nc/data',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => '*******',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '16.0.4.1',
  'dbname' => '******',
  'dbhost' => '**********',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'dbuser' => '*****',
  'dbpassword' => ******',
  'installed' => true,
  'updater.release.channel' => 'production',
  'maintenance' => true,
  'mail_from_address' => '*****',
  'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',
  'mail_domain' => '******',
  'theme' => '',
  'loglevel' => 0,
  'mail_smtphost' => '******',
  'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_smtpsecure' => 'tls',
  'mail_smtpauth' => 1,
  'mail_smtpname' => '*******',
  'mail_smtppassword' => '*******',
  'mail_smtpport' => '***',
  'skeletondirectory' => '',
  'app_install_overwrite' => 
  array (
    0 => 'mail',
    1 => 'occweb',
  ),
  'trashbin_retention_obligation' => 'auto, 180',
  'updater.secret' => '$2y$10$UHvKGZ/rdVycW.uaPZ1areN2ud7qQ9S9EWBR69T4fV4gH7AqTWmsm',
);

I have made some progress on this.
Good news: The webserver seems so run under my user-account. So I can use occ without sudo.

Bad news:
I run into this error using php occ upgrade

Cannot create "data" directory
This can usually be fixed by giving the webserver write access to the root directory. See https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/16/go.php?to=admin-dir_permissions

An unhandled exception has been thrown:
Exception: Environment not properly prepared. in /httpdocs/nc/lib/private/Console/Application.php:166
Stack trace:
#0 /httpdocs/nc/console.php(96): OC\Console\Application->loadCommands(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#1 /httpdocs/nc/occ(11): require_once('/httpdocs/nc/co...')
#2 {main}bash-4.3$

The Permissions seem to be correct:

bash-4.3$ ls -l
total 148
[....]
drwxr-xr-x 54 hostingXXXXX psacln  4096 Apr  6 21:50 apps
drwxr-xr-x  2 hostingXXXXX psacln  4096 Apr  6 23:11 config
-rw-r--r--  1 hostingXXXXX psacln  4986 Sep  1  2019 cron.php
drwxrwx--- 24 hostingXXXXX psacln  4096 Feb  6 09:32 data
-rw-r--r--  1 hostingXXXXX psacln   283 Sep  1  2019 occ
drwxr-xr-x  2 hostingXXXXX psacln  4096 Sep  1  2019 updater

So why is this happen?