Installing ownCloud on Linux (Debian 10) 🌱

  1. Log into the Debian device
  2. Run the following commands in a terminal:
    # update repositories and install any available software updates
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade
    # install Apache HTTPD and MySQL
    sudo apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client
    # install PHP components
    sudo apt-get install php7.3 libapache2-mod-php7.3 php7.3-curl php7.3-intl php7.3-json php7.3-gd php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysql php7.3-xml php7.3-zip
    # configure the MySQL database
    sudo su
    mysql_secure_installation
  3. Press Enter to login as root
  4. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
  5. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
  6. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
  7. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
  8. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
  9. Run the following command to login into MySQL:
    mysql -u root -p
  10. Authenticate with the root password set earlier
  11. Run the following commands to create the Owncloud database and database user
    MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE ownclouddb;
    MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL ON ownclouddb.* to 'ownclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'ownCl0ud!!';
    MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    MariaDB [(none)]> EXIT;
    exit
  12. Continue with the following commands to download and extract Owncloud in the Apache webroot
    # download latest owncloud version
    sudo wget https://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-latest.tar.bz2
    # extract owncloud-latest.tar.bz2
    sudo mkdir /var/www/owncloud
    sudo tar -xvf owncloud-latest.tar.bz2 --directory /var/www
    # set the owner of the new owncloud directory to www-data
    sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/owncloud
    # create a new owncloud.conf file to configure the site
    sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf
  13. Paste the following configuration into 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>

  14. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to owncloud.conf
  15. Continue with the following commands to enable the site and restart Apache:
    # enable the Ownload site and required PHP modules
    sudo a2ensite owncloud
    sudo a2enmod rewrite headers env mime unique_id dav
    # restart apache2 service for the changes to take effect
    sudo systemctl restart apache2
  16. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/owncloud
  17. The Owncloud setup screen should be displayed
  18. Enter a username and password
  19. Click the storage & database link to expand the section
  20. Select MySQL and fill out the database connetion information as follows

    username: ownclouduser
    password: ownCl0ud!!
    database name: ownclouddb
    database host: localhost

  21. Click Finish Setup
  22. After a few moments of setup Owncloud will be up and running