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OwnCloud: Create Your Personal Cloud

ownCloud
Software version 4.5.6
Operating System Debian 7
Website ownCloud Website
Others MariaDB 5.5

Introduction

ownCloud^1 is an open source implementation of online storage services and various applications (cloud computing).

This tutorial bases the installation of ownCloud on Nginx and MariaDB.

Server Installation

MariaDB

We need to have MariaDB installed. Then, we must create a database and an account:

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> mysql -uroot -p
CREATE DATABASE owncloud;
CREATE USER 'owncloud_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'owncloud_password';
GRANT USAGE ON * . * TO 'owncloud_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'owncloud_password';
GRANT ALL ON `owncloud`.* TO 'owncloud_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH privileges;

ownCloud

Let's first install the dependencies:

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aptitude install php5 php5-gd php-xml-parser php5-intl php5-mysql smbclient curl libcurl3 php5-curl

We'll download the latest version:

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cd /usr/share/nginx/www/
wget http://mirrors.owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-4.5.6.tar.bz2
tar -xjf owncloud-4.5.6.tar.bz2
rm -f owncloud-4.5.6.tar.bz2
chown -Rf www-data. owncloud

Configuration

Nginx

ownCloud 4.X

Here is the ownCloud 4.X configuration for Nginx:

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server {
    include listen_port.conf;
    listen 443 default ssl;
    ssl on;

    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/deimos.fr/server-unified.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/deimos.fr/server.key;

    server_name owncloud.deimos.fr;
    root /usr/share/nginx/www/deimos.fr/owncloud;
    index index.php;
    client_max_body_size 1024M;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/cloud.deimos.fr_access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/cloud.deimos.fr_error.log;

    # Force SSL
    if ($scheme = http) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }

    # deny direct access
    location ~ ^/(data|config|\.ht|db_structure\.xml|README) {
        deny all;
    }

    # default try order
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ @webdav;
    }

    # owncloud WebDAV
    location @webdav {
        fastcgi_cache mycache;
        fastcgi_cache_key $request_method$host$request_uri;
        fastcgi_cache_valid any 1h;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri = 404;
        fastcgi_cache mycache;
        fastcgi_cache_key $request_method$host$request_uri;
        fastcgi_cache_valid any 1h;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    }

    # Drop config
    include drop.conf;
}

ownCloud 5.X

And for version 5:

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server {
    include listen_port.conf;
    listen 443 default ssl;
    ssl on;

    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/deimos.fr/server-unified.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/deimos.fr/server.key;

    server_name cloud.deimos.fr;
    root /usr/share/nginx/www/deimos.fr/owncloud;
    index index.php;
    client_max_body_size 1024M;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/cloud.deimos.fr_access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/cloud.deimos.fr_error.log;

    # Force SSL
    if ($scheme = http) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }

    rewrite ^/caldav((/|$).*)$ /remote.php/caldav$1 last;
    rewrite ^/carddav((/|$).*)$ /remote.php/carddav$1 last;
    rewrite ^/webdav((/|$).*)$ /remote.php/webdav$1 last;

    error_page 403 = /core/templates/403.php;
    error_page 404 = /core/templates/404.php;

    location ~ ^/(data|config|\.ht|db_structure\.xml|README) {
            deny all;
    }

    location / {
        rewrite ^/.well-known/host-meta /public.php?service=host-meta last;
        rewrite ^/.well-known/host-meta.json /public.php?service=host-meta-json last;
        rewrite ^/.well-known/carddav /remote.php/carddav/ redirect;
        rewrite ^/.well-known/caldav /remote.php/caldav/ redirect;
        rewrite ^(/core/doc/[^\/]+/)$ $1/index.html;
        try_files $uri $uri/ index.php;
    }

    location ~ ^(?<script_name>.+?\.php)(?<path_info>/.*)?$ {
        try_files $script_name = 404;
        fastcgi_cache_valid any 1h;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|bmp|ico|png|css|js|swf)$ {
        expires 30d;
        # Optional: Don't log access to assets
        access_log off;
    }

    # Drop config
    include drop.conf;
}

Restart Nginx and access your cloud: http://owncloud.myserver.com

Clients

There are desktop clients available, allowing automatic file synchronization. You can download these versions here. If you need a higher level of logging, you can also launch the owncloud client like this:

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owncloud --logwindow

It's also possible to adjust the polling interval time:

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[ownCloud]
remotePollInterval=30000
localPollInterval=10000
PollTimerExceedFactor=10
maxLogLines=20000
[...]

For more information about these options, see the associated documentation^2.

FAQ

csync could not create the lock file

If you have this kind of message on the client:

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csync could not create the lock file

It's simply that a lock file persists. Quit the application, delete the lock file:

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rm ~/.local/share/data/ownCloud/lock

And restart ownCloud :-)

References