How To Install OwnCloud 8 Server In Ubuntu

OwnCloud is well-known and very popular free and open source self hosted file sync and sharing application, which offer great security and alternative of many paid services . you can store sync and access your data from anywhere without worrying about data security . OwnCloud installs easily on various operating systems, which allow anyone to host their own files sync, share while using their own storage ,without worrying about third-party sync and share services .

provides access to your data through a web interface or WebDAV while providing a platform to view, sync and share across devices easily—all under your control. ownCloud’s open architecture is extensible via a simple but powerful API for applications and plugins and works with any storage.

Features

Storing Files
External Storage and Encryption
Favorites
LDAP / Active directory integration
Sync
Share
Integration of anti-virus scanning functionality
Collaborative Editing
Galleries
Versioning and undeleted
Calendars
Contacts
Application Store
Sharing REST API

Installation ( For ubuntu 14.10 users )

$ wget -O - http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:community/xUbuntu_14.10/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -

Sample OutPut

100%[===============================================================================>] 1,003       --.-K/s   in 0s

2015-02-09 22:15:43 (105 MB/s) - written to stdout [1003/1003]

OK

Now lets add ownCloud repository , originally hosted at opensuse channel

$ echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/ownCloud:/community/xUbuntu_14.10/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list 

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install owncloud

By defualt it use SQLite3 as database but you can easily switch to mysql or postgresql , let me show you how to set up mysql for owncloud .

$ mysql -u root -p

login in mysql as root user and then create a database for owncloud and create a user then assign owncloud database to this user

mysql> CREATE database owncloud ; 

# Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON owncloud.* TO 'alok'@'localhost' 
     -> IDENTIFIED BY 'YOURPASSWORD';

# Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
# Where alok is username  

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES ; 

# Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

exit

Now open your browser and browse to http://YOURSERVERIP/owncloud
and enter your database credentials with admin username and password and click finish setup