Difference between revisions of "OwnCloud"

Revision as of 12:42, 19 January 2025

What is OwnCloud ?

OwnCloud is a file synchronization server. It affords keeping a hierarchy of files synchronized on different clients and operating systems. The installation procedure is described on the owncloud install documentation.

Installing OwnCloud

OwnCloud is available as a PHP application relying on various databases. See the OwnCloud documentation for details. We will be using MySQL. download tarball then untar and install.

# tar -C /usr/local -xvf owncloud-complete-20240724.tar.bz2
# chown -R apache:apache owncloud
# cd /var/www/htdocs
# ln -s /usr/local/owncloud owncloud
# chown -R apache:apache owncloud

Creating the occ helper script

This is the owncloud administration command.

# FILE="/usr/local/bin/occ"
# cat <<EOM >$FILE
> #! /bin/bash
> cd /usr/local/owncloud
> sudo -E -u apache /usr/bin/php /usr/local/owncloud/occ "\$@"
> EOM
# chmod u+x $FILE

Creating the owncloud database

This creation can be effected in phpmyadmin creating the owncloud@local user and database.

Alternatively the owncloud documentation also provides this script :

mysql -u root -e \
  "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS owncloud; \
  CREATE USER IF NOT EXISTS 'owncloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; \
  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'owncloud'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION; \
  FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

setting up the owncloud database

occ maintenance:install \
    --database "mysql" \
    --database-name "owncloud" \
    --database-user "owncloud" \
    --database-pass "password" \
    --data-dir "/var/www/owncloud/data" \
    --admin-user "admin" \
    --admin-pass "admin"