Install ownCloud on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS DigitalOcean
ownCloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync and file share platform similar to Dropbox. If you’re looking for a self-hosted file share and sync platform, then ownCloud should be a good place to start.
This is a short guide to installing ownCloud on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on DigitalOcean.
This same process also applies to a stand alone PC with Ubuntu 20.04 installed.
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Update Your System
First, ensure that all the installed packages are up to date and that PHP is available in the APT repository.
apt update && \ apt upgrade -y
Create the occ Helper Script
Create a helper script to simplify running occ commands:
FILE="/usr/local/bin/occ" cat <<EOM >$FILE #! /bin/bash cd /var/www/owncloud sudo -E -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/owncloud/occ "\$@" EOM
Make the helper script executable:
chmod +x $FILE
Install the Required Packages
apt install -y \ apache2 libapache2-mod-php \ mariadb-server openssl redis-server wget php-imagick \ php-common php-curl php-gd php-gmp php-bcmath php-imap \ php-intl php-json php-mbstring php-mysql php-ssh2 php-xml \ php-zip php-apcu php-redis php-ldap php-phpseclib
Install smbclient php Module
If you want to connect to external storage via SMB you need to install the smbclient php module.
First install the required packages:
apt-get install -y libsmbclient-dev php-dev php-pear
Then install smblclient php module using pecl:
pecl channel-update pecl.php.net mkdir -p /tmp/pear/cache pecl install smbclient-stable echo "extension=smbclient.so" > /etc/php/7.4/mods-available/smbclient.ini phpenmod smbclient systemctl restart apache2
Check if it was successfully activated:
php -m | grep smbclient
This should show the following output:
libsmbclient
smbclient
Install the Recommended Packages
Additional useful tools helpful for debugging:
apt install -y \ unzip bzip2 rsync curl jq \ inetutils-ping ldap-utils \ smbclient
Configure Apache
Create a Virtual Host Configuration
FILE="/etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf" cat <<EOM >$FILE <VirtualHost *:80> # uncommment the line below if variable was set #ServerName $my_domain DirectoryIndex index.php index.html DocumentRoot /var/www/owncloud <Directory /var/www/owncloud> Options +FollowSymlinks -Indexes AllowOverride All Require all granted <IfModule mod_dav.c> Dav off </IfModule> SetEnv HOME /var/www/owncloud SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/owncloud </Directory> </VirtualHost> EOM
Enable the Virtual Host Configuration
a2dissite 000-default a2ensite owncloud.conf
Create OwnCloud Database
Now that you’ve install all the required packages, continue to start configuring the server.
Note: All words hightlight can be modified to your liking, the “ownclouduser and password” must be changed to something other that the default.
To connect to MariaDB server, run the commands below.
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then create a database called owncloud
CREATE DATABASE owncloud;
Create a database user called ownclouduser with new password
CREATE USER 'ownclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password_here';
Then grant the user full access to the database.
GRANT ALL ON owncloud.* TO 'ownclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Now, save your changes and exit.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Enable the Recommended Apache Modules
a2enmod dir env headers mime rewrite setenvif systemctl restart apache2
Download ownCloud
cd /var/www/ wget https://download.owncloud.com/server/stable/owncloud-complete-latest.tar.bz2 && \ tar -xjf owncloud-complete-latest.tar.bz2 && \ chown -R www-data. owncloud
Install ownCloud
Remember to set a strong password for your owncloud admin user and provide the previously set password for the database user as the –database-pass argument.
occ maintenance:install \ --database "mysql" \ --database-name "owncloud" \ --database-user "owncloud" \ --database-pass "sec_db_pwd" \ --data-dir "/var/www/owncloud/data" \ --admin-user "admin" \ --admin-pass "sec_admin_pwd"
Configure ownCloud’s Trusted Domains
my_ip=$(hostname -I|cut -f1 -d ' ') occ config:system:set trusted_domains 1 --value="$my_ip" occ config:system:set trusted_domains 2 --value="$my_domain"
Configure the cron Jobs
Set your background job mode to cron:
occ background:cron
Configure the execution of the cron job to every 15 min and the cleanup of chunks every night at 2 am:
echo "*/15 * * * * /var/www/owncloud/occ system:cron" \ | sudo -u www-data -g crontab tee -a \ /var/spool/cron/crontabs/www-data echo "0 2 * * * /var/www/owncloud/occ dav:cleanup-chunks" \ | sudo -u www-data -g crontab tee -a \ /var/spool/cron/crontabs/www-data
Configure Caching and File Locking
occ config:system:set \
memcache.local \
--value '\OC\Memcache\APCu'
occ config:system:set \
memcache.locking \
--value '\OC\Memcache\Redis'
occ config:system:set \
redis \
--value '{"host": "127.0.0.1", "port": "6379"}' \
--type json
Configure Log Rotation
FILE="/etc/logrotate.d/owncloud"
sudo cat <<EOM >$FILE
/var/www/owncloud/data/owncloud.log {
size 10M
rotate 12
copytruncate
missingok
compress
compresscmd /bin/gzip
}
EOM
Make sure the permissions are correct
cd /var/www/ chown -R www-data. owncloud
