UPDATE: Owncloud v6.0.3 on Ubuntu 14.04 posted here.
Thought I would try out installing OwnCloud on Ubuntu Server 12.10 and after searching couldn't find exactly the install that would work.
So here goes on what I've been able to find out and what's working for me. Please feel free to add in the comments better security features as I'm definitely not a linux security guy.
1. Install Ubuntu Server with OpenSSH and LAMP.
2. Update the OS. Change over to admin privleges. It's just easier with all the commands. If you chose not to just add sudo before each command that follows.
sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
3. I found with some installs there were more programs added but the default 12.10 install wouldn't recognize them so i removed them and things appear to be running fine.
apt-get install php5 php5-common php5-gd php5-sqlite curl php5-curl
4. Download OwnCloud. At the time of this writing the current version was 4.5.2 so substitute for the latest.
wget http://mirrors.owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-4.5.2.tar.bz2
5. Extract OwnCloud.
tar xvf owncloud-4.5.2.tar.bz2
6. Move OwnCloud to the /var/www directory.
mv owncloud/ /var/www/
7. Set permission on the owncloud directory to work with apache2.
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/owncloud
8. Log into your OwnCloud.
http://<ip>/owncloud
9. Set your admin login and password.
10. The data directory should have been created now.
11. Move the data directory out of the /var/www/owncloud/data file structure.
mv /var/www/owncloud/data /
12. Edit the /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php to point to the current location of the data directory.
nano /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php
'datadirectory' => '/data',
13. Didn't like the default cloud upload size of 2M or php's default...which ever.
nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
post_max_size = 4G
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0
upload_max_filesize = 4G
date.timezone = "America/New_York"
14. To make should that apache2 will allow changes during the uploads I think modify the defaults.
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
15. Now to get https ssl working with OwnCloud I created self-signed certs. End a self signed password that you will remember as it will ask you again.
openssl genrsa -des3 -out /etc/ssl/server.key 4096
openssl req -new -key /etc/ssl/server.key -out /etc/ssl/server.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in /etc/ssl/server.csr -signkey /etc/ssl/server.key -out /etc/ssl/server.crt
openssl rsa -in /etc/ssl/server.key -out /etc/ssl/server.key.insecure
mv /etc/ssl/server.key /etc/ssl/server.key.secure
mv /etc/ssl/server.key.insecure /etc/ssl/server.key
mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl
cp /etc/ssl/server.key /etc/apache2/ssl
cp /etc/ssl/server.crt /etc/apache2/ssl
16. Start https port 443
a2enmod ssl
17. Activate the service.
ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default-ssl
18. This prevents apache2 from complaining.
echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
19. Restart apache2.
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
20. You should be able to login to https://<IP>/owncloud now.
21. If you want remote clients to be able to connect you will have to properly link the ssl certs within apache2. Comment # out the existing and add the ones we created above.
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl
# SSL Engine Switch:
# Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.
SSLEngine on
# A self-signed (snakeoil) certificate can be created by installing
# the ssl-cert package. See
# /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.Debian.gz for more info.
# If both key and certificate are stored in the same file, only the
# SSLCertificateFile directive is needed.
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key
# SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
# SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
22. Also add the following to the top of the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl. Change <your dynmanic server name> to your OwnCloud domain name.
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName <your dynamic server name>
DocumentRoot /var/www
UPDATE 5 Feb 2013
UPDATING YOUR INSTALLATION
Use sudo on commands or switch to root via sudo su
1. Check your version by going to your owncloud via the web interface. Login via your admin account. Select settings (bottom left pane). Select Admin. Scroll to see the version in the right pane at the bottom. When updating make sure you stay with that version 4.0.3 --> 4.0.6 or 4.5.2 --> 4.5.6. Get it? If you are upgrading to an entirely new version see that documentation.
2. This is assuming you are located under your root user directory. /home/<username>
3. Download the must recent version.
4. sudo wget http://mirrors.owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-4.5.6.tar.bz2
5. Unpack
6. sudo tar -xjvf owncloud-4.5.6.tar.bz2
7. Backup your owncloud directory in case something goes wrong.
8. sudo rsync -a /var/www/owncloud/ owncloud_bkp`date +"%Y%m%d"`/
9. Backup your data directory in case something goes wrong.
10. sudo rsync -a /data/ owncloud_data_bkp`date +"%Y%m%d"`/
11. Save a copy of your config file. Mark the file with the old version number.
12. sudo cp /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php /var/www/owncloud/config/config-4.5.2.php
13. Sync the new version files with your old.
14. sudo rsync --inplace -rtv owncloud /var/www/
15. Clean up the new version.
16. sudo rm -rf owncloud
17. Should be able to restart your server and check the version again to ensure the update took.
