Linux | OwnCloud (Media Temple VPS or Dedicated Server)
Overview:
In this tutorial I will show you how to install and configuration OwnCloud on Ubuntu 16.04. For those of you who didn’t know, OwnCloud is a free and open-source software which enables you to create a private “file-hosting” cloud. OwnCloud is similar to DropBox service with the diference of being free to download and install on your private server. Owncloud made by PHP and backend database MySQL (MariaDB), SQLLite or PostgreSQL. OwnCloud also enables you to easily view and sync address book, calendar events, tasks and bookmarks. You can access it via the good looking and easy to use web interface or install OwnCloud client on your Desktop or Laptop machine (supports Linux, Windows and Mac OSX).
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation OwnCloud on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.
• File storage & sharing
• Mobile & desktop clients
Requirements:
• A VPS with Ubuntu 16.04 installed
• Root SSH Access
• Familiarity with basic shell commands
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation OwnCloud on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.
• File storage & sharing
• Mobile & desktop clients
Requirements:
• A VPS with Ubuntu 16.04 installed
• Root SSH Access
• Familiarity with basic shell commands
Step 1: First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get upgrade
Step 2: Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL (MariaDB), PHP) server.
A Ubuntu 16.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed. Also install all required PHP modules.
A Ubuntu 16.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed. Also install all required PHP modules.
Installing Apache on Ubuntu 16.04:
I will be installing Apache with apt-get, which is the default package manager for ubuntu. Your also required to install libapache2-mod-php module to work PHP with Apache2:
apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php
After installing apache services on your system, start all required services:
systemctl enable apache2
systemctl start apache2
systemctl status apache2
You can verify that Apache is really running by opening your favorite web browser and entering the URL http://[your-domain.com/] or http://192.168.10.6/ (192.168.10.6 this my server IP address), if it is installed, then you will see this:
I will be installing Apache with apt-get, which is the default package manager for ubuntu. Your also required to install libapache2-mod-php module to work PHP with Apache2:
apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php
After installing apache services on your system, start all required services:
systemctl enable apache2
systemctl start apache2
systemctl status apache2
You can verify that Apache is really running by opening your favorite web browser and entering the URL http://[your-domain.com/] or http://192.168.10.6/ (192.168.10.6 this my server IP address), if it is installed, then you will see this:
Now that we have our web server up and running, it is time to install MySQL. MySQL is a database management system. Basically, it will organize and provide access to databases where our site can store information:
Now that we have our web server up and running, it is time to install MySQL. MySQL is a database management system. Basically, it will organize and provide access to databases where our site can store information:
apt-get install mysql-server php7.0-mysql
Once complete, you can verify MySQL is installed by running the below command:
systemctl status mysql
systemctl start mysql
By default, MySQL is not hardened. You can secure MySQL using the mysql_secure_installation script. you should read and below each steps carefully which will set root password, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove the test database and access to secure MySQL:
mysql_secure_installation
- Set root password? [Y/n] y
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y
apt-get install mysql-server php7.0-mysql
Once complete, you can verify MySQL is installed by running the below command:
systemctl status mysql
systemctl start mysql
By default, MySQL is not hardened. You can secure MySQL using the mysql_secure_installation script. you should read and below each steps carefully which will set root password, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove the test database and access to secure MySQL:
mysql_secure_installation
- Set root password? [Y/n] y
- Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
- Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
- Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
- Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y
To log into MySQL, use the following command (note that it’s the same command you would use to log into a MySQL database):
mysql -u root -p
mysql -u root -p
This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MySQL root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for OwnCloud installation:
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mysql> CREATE DATABASE ownclouddb;
mysql> CREATE USER 'ownclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOURPASSWORD';
mysql> GRANT ALL ON ownclouddb.* TO 'ownclouduser'@'localhost';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> exit
mysql> CREATE USER 'ownclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOURPASSWORD';
mysql> GRANT ALL ON ownclouddb.* TO 'ownclouduser'@'localhost';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> exit
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Installing PHP 7 on Ubuntu 16.04
PHP 7.0 is now the default PHP package shipping in Ubuntu LTS 16.04 (Xenial Xerus), Now install PHP 7 with the following command:
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-json php7.0-opcache php7.0-xml mcrypt php7.0-mcrypt
apt-get install imagemagick php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mysql libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-bz2 php7.0-zip
If you like to search all the available PHP 7 modules you can use to command:
apt-cache search php7-*
Your server should restart Apache automatically after the installation of both MySQL and PHP. If it doesn’t, execute this command:
systemctl restart apache2
systemctl restart mysql
systemctl restart mysql
To test PHP, create a test file named info.php with he content below. Save the file, then browse to it to see if PHP is working:
vim /var/www/html/info.php
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
vim /var/www/html/info.php
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
Try to access it at http://[your-domain.com/] or http://192.168.10.6/info.php (192.168.10.6 this my server IP address) . If the PHP info page is rendered in your browser then everything looks good and you are ready to proceed further.
Step 3: Installing OwnCloud 9.1.5.
OwnCloud provides you the official deb packages for the installation of ownCloud. Setup ownCloud repository using the following command:
wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
Install ownCloud using the following command:
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud
OwnCloud provides you the official deb packages for the installation of ownCloud. Setup ownCloud repository using the following command:
wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
Install ownCloud using the following command:
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud
Step 5: OwnCloud Configuration.
To configure ownCloud, we will use the web interface. So, go ahead and open up a web browser and point it to http://[your-domain.com/] or http://192.168.10.6/owncloud (192.168.10.6 this my server IP address) You should see a web page like this. Enter username and password for the administrator user account, click on the ‘Advanced options’ hyperlink and enter the data directory (or leave the default setting), then enter database username, database password, database name, host (localhost) and click ‘Finish setup’.
To configure ownCloud, we will use the web interface. So, go ahead and open up a web browser and point it to http://[your-domain.com/] or http://192.168.10.6/owncloud (192.168.10.6 this my server IP address) You should see a web page like this. Enter username and password for the administrator user account, click on the ‘Advanced options’ hyperlink and enter the data directory (or leave the default setting), then enter database username, database password, database name, host (localhost) and click ‘Finish setup’.
The next page is the login page. The first time you log into OwnCloud, use the administrator user name and password.
The home page will look like below; you can start uploading the contents using “+ sign” button.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed OwnCloud.
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