Installing ownCloud 6 on Debian 7 wheezy

Hello, habravchane! Today I would like to talk about ownCloud personal cloud storage and its installation.

For us, it has become commonplace to use such services as Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, or even Mail.Ru Cloud, we use their services every day without paying attention to the obvious shortcomings of certain servers. There is not enough space on one service, no localization on the other, unreliable storage on the third, interface on the fourth curve and so on, but all of these services have a common significant drawback - your data is always stored on the servers you are not monitoring. In the case when it is necessary to use services to host data that does not have much value for you - these services should be completely enough. If you need content protection, complete confidentiality, security, unlimited free space, the ability to organize multi-user access to work in groups, version control, synchronization, the ability to view documents, spreadsheets, images, video, audio recordings, notes from anywhere in the world without need to download them - ownCloud is what you need.
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Let's take a closer look at ownCloud and try to install it.

OwnCloud literally translated as "own cloud". This is an open source CMS that can be downloaded to your computer and later installed on a hosting or own server. By ownCloud functionality does not lag behind the leading companies in the world of cloud storage, and some surpasses.



Behind a simple concise interface there is a large functionality that can be expanded even more with the help of pre-installed modules and its own App store presented on the official website.

Features ownCloud out of the box:

• Multi-threaded data loading "dragging" using technology drag-and-drop

• Editing file permissions for specific users, groups or the Internet

• Connect and view news RSS feeds

• View images, videos, office documents

• Synchronized calendar, task manager, contact manager, web bookmark manager

• User activity tracking

• Secure connection, data encryption, LDAP \ WebDAV authentication

• Support for external storage: Google Drive, Dropbox, FTP, SMB, WebDAV, Amazon S3, IRODS, OpenStack Object Storage, as well as local

• Full synchronization client applications for all relevant platforms

This is just a brief list of ownCloud features, but its benefits are already visible. If you wish, you can add an email client, a torrent client, a video chat, a full-fledged office, checking for VirusTotal files and much more.

Let's move from theory to practice.

Installing ownCloud on a server running Debian 7 wheezy

1. Installing basic software

Before we begin, let's make sure that our system is up to date.
Open the terminal and enter:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade 

These two simple commands will update all the programs on our server, the process can take a long time depending on the speed of the Internet and our server.

Now, you can proceed with the installation of your ownCloud required software:

 sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-common php5-gd php5-intl php5-mcrypt php5-cli php5-ldap php5-sqlite curl libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev php5-curl php-apc php5-mysql ffmpeg 

Now we have everything necessary for the rapid deployment of ownCloud on our server and you can proceed to step 4 or continue the full installation with me.

2. Installing MySQL

Install MySQL:

 apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server 

Create a password for the MySQL database and go ahead.

Important: the password should not be the same as the superuser password.

Now let's take a little care of our security, enter into the console:

 mysql_secure_installation 

All questions except “Change the root password” (If you do not want to change the MySQL password) are answered positively with Y.

Enter the MySQL management console and enter the password (it is not visible):

  mysql -u root -p 

Create a database:

  create database _; 

Create a user, preferably with the same name as the database:

  create user '_'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '_'; 

Important: the password should not be the same as the superuser password.

We transfer to the created user full rights to the created database:

  GRANT ALL ON _.* to '_'@'localhost' ; 

We leave:

  quit 

3. Installing ntp to synchronize time on the server

Install the ntp client:

  apt-get install ntp ntpdate 

Now we change the time synchronization server to the nearest one:

  sudo gedit /etc/ntp.conf 

In the opened fale we find:

server 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic
server 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic
server 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic
server 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic

We change to the addresses of npt servers nearest to us, for example, to:

server 0.ru.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic
server 1.ru.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic
server 2.ru.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic
server 3.ru.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic

Save and exit the editor.

To check the correctness of the time is enough to enter in the terminal:

  ntpdate 0.ru.pool.ntp.org 

If the time on our server does not match the time obtained from the ntp server, enter:

  ntpdate -bs 0.ru.pool.ntp.org 

4.Setting

Edit the / etc / apache2 / sites-enabled / 000-default file:

  sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default 

Find the line in the "<Directory / var / www />" section:

AllowOverride None

Change to:

AllowOverride All

Save the file and exit.

Restart apache:

  service apache2 restart 

Editing php.ini:

  sudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini 

Find the lines:

 mysql.default_socket = mysql.cache_size = memory_limit = post_max_size = upload_max_filesize = 

Change to:

 mysql.default_socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock mysql.cache_size = 4000 upload_max_filesize = 1024M //          post_max_size = 1024M //     upload_max_filesize memory_limit = 1024M //     post_max_size 

Save the file and exit.

Restart apache again:

  service apache2 restart 

5. Installing ownCloud

Download the latest version of ownCloud, at the time of writing ownCloud 6:

  cd /var/www/ 

  wget http://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-6.0.0a.tar.bz2 

Also, you can simply download the latest version from the official site of ownCloud in the folder / var / www /

Unpack:

  tar -xvf owncloud-6.0.0a.tar.bz2 

We set the rights:

  sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/owncloud/ 

Now our site is ready, only a small stroke remains, open localhost / owncloud in the browser


A) For those who immediately went to point 4: We come up with a login and password for the administrator - we enter
B) For those who installed MySQL: We create a login and password for the administrator, select “advanced” then “MySQL” and enter the name of the previously created database user, its password, the name of the database itself, in the Database host field we write localhost.

Done! Now you are a happy owner of your owncloud personal cloud with synchronization on all devices on your home network. To do this, just type your_internal_IP / ownCloud in your browser or if you are connected to the Internet directly you can access your owncloud by typing external_IP / ownCloud.

Setting up access to ownCloud from the Internet through the router

Consider an example based on an asus rt-n16 router:

From the browser we go to the address 192.168.1.1, enter the username and password and enter the router's web interface:


1. Go to the "Internet" tab 2. Go to the "Port Forwarding" tab (Virtual Server / Port Forwarding) 3. Turn on redirection.

4. Select the profiles that have already been carefully prepared for us: FTP and HTTP.

5. Select the internal IP address of our server (“ip a” in the terminal, an address like 192.168.1.X or 192.168.0.X) and click “+” to add to the list

6. By analogy, fill in and add the ports we need, then click the “Apply” button

Notes

PS I want to thank user paullarionov for his excellent article about file storage, as well as KuniLinux for the article about installing ownCloud 4 on Ubuntu 12.04, it was his article that inspired me to write a more advanced and updated article.