ownCloud is a popular open source enterprise web application used for data synchronization and file sharing. It allows users to easily manage their files, contacts, calendars, to-do lists, and more, making it a great alternative to to the popular Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, etc. cloud platforms. ownCloud is a cross-platform application and supports all popular operating systems, but this tutorial was written especially for Ubuntu 16.04. At the time of writing the latest ownCloud version is 10.0.7.
1. Prerequisites
- PHP >= 5.6 (PHP 7.0 or above is recommended), with the following PHP extensions enabled: XML (Expat), curl, PDO, Phar, GD Graphics Library version 2.0.x+, DOM, ctype, JSON, iconv, intl, mcrypt, openssl, bz2, Zlib and Zip.
- Apache Web Server >= 2.0 compiled with mod_rewrite module
- MySQL >= 5.x (MySQL 5.5 or later is recommended), MariaDB 5.5+, PostgreSQL, or SQLite installed on your Linux virtual server.
2. Update the system
As usual before installing any system packages on your server, update the system first:
# sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
3. Install ownCloud
Download the repository key using the wget command and import it with the apt-key command:
# wget -qO- https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add - OK
Make sure apt-transport-https is installed as we are going to need it for the next step:
# sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: aspell aspell-en dictionaries-common emacsen-common libaspell15 libexttextcat-2.0-0 libexttextcat-data liblua5.1-0 libyajl2 Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: apt-transport-https 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 54 not upgraded. Need to get 26.1 kB of archives. After this operation, 215 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 apt-transport-https amd64 1.2.26 [26.1 kB] Fetched 26.1 kB in 0s (60.8 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package apt-transport-https. (Reading database ... 35616 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../apt-transport-https_1.2.26_amd64.deb ... Unpacking apt-transport-https (1.2.26) ... Setting up apt-transport-https (1.2.26) ...
Create a owncloud.list file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d so we can add the ownCloud repository to the server:
# echo 'deb https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list deb https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/ /
Now update the system packages again so we can install the ownCloud packages:
# sudo apt-get update Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease Ign:5 https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04 InRelease Get:6 https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04 Release [986 B] Get:7 https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04 Release.gpg [481 B] Get:8 https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04 Packages [736 B] Fetched 2203 B in 2s (1030 B/s) Reading package lists... Done
Install ownCloud by executing the following command:
# sudo apt-get install owncloud-files Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: owncloud-files 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 51 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/35.1 MB of archives. After this operation, 118 MB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package owncloud-files. (Reading database ... 35869 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../owncloud-files_10.0.7-1.1_all.deb ... Unpacking owncloud-files (10.0.7-1.1) ... Setting up owncloud-files (10.0.7-1.1) ...
We can proceed to the next step now.
4. Create a MySQL database for ownCloud
Log into MySQL with the root account:
# mysql -u root -p
Now we will create a MySQL database for ownCloud using the following query:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE owncloud;
Then execute the following query to add a separate user for ownCloud that will interact with the database:
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON owncloud.* to 'owncloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'enter_username_password_here';
Execute the following command to apply the privileges we set:
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Now we can exit the MySQL session:
mysql> exit;
5. Configure ownCloud
First make sure the following packages are installed as they are needed by ownCloud:
# sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.0
openssl php-imagick php7.0-common php7.0-curl php7.0-gd
php7.0-imap php7.0-intl php7.0-json php7.0-ldap php7.0-mbstring
php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-pgsql php-smbclient php-ssh2
php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-xml php7.0-zip
6. Configure Apache to server ownCloud
Now we will have to setup the Apache configuration so it can serve the ownCloud directory, add the following contents below to the /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf file with nano or your favorite editor:
# sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf Alias /owncloud "/var/www/owncloud/" <Directory /var/www/owncloud/> Options +FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All <IfModule mod_dav.c> Dav off </IfModule> SetEnv HOME /var/www/owncloud SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/owncloud </Directory>
Enable the following Apache modules:
# sudo a2enmod rewrite # sudo a2enmod headers # sudo a2enmod env # sudo a2enmod dir # sudo a2enmod mime
Enable the Apache ownCloud configuration:
# sudo a2ensite owncloud.conf
Now restart the Apache web server:
# sudo systemctl restart apache2
Open your web browser and type in the following URL to access the ownCloud web interface:
http://your_server_ip_address_or_domain_name/owncloud
From here you can finish the setup by following the steps below:
- Enter a username and password for the admin account.
- Click on the Storage & database link.
- Leave the default data folder setting.
- Click the MySQL/MariaDB button.
- Populate the fields with the database information we set above.
- Click Finish Setup.
That’s it, now you should have successfully installed ownCloud 10 on your server.