Difference between revisions of "OwnCloud"

Revision as of 12:46, 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 owncloud install documentation describes the procedure for Ubuntu, which we adapt below for Slackware.

The below was made for Owncloud 10.15.

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"