In this tutorial, we will learn how to install OwnCloud 8 on Ubuntu 15.10. OwnCloud is an open-source alternative to DropBox. It has the same functionality as Dropbox, but unlike DropBox the data is hosted by you and you have total control over it.
Note
We will be installing OwnCloud, Apache, MariaDB, PHP, as well as some extra PHP modules required by OwnCloud.
Install
As always we need to update our packages list and upgrade any available package updates
sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
Now we install all of the dependencies required by OwnCloud
sudo apt-get -y install apache2 mariadb-server libapache2-mod-php5 php5-gd php5-json php5-mysql php5-curl php5-intl php5-mcrypt php5-imagick
When installing the MariaDB server, you will be prompted to create a root password. Be sure to remember the password you enter here, you will need it during OwnCloud Installation.
Next we go Go to the OwnCloud Download Page and download the latest OwnCloud Server, in my case it was OwnCloud 8.2.2
Download to your server
wget https://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-8.2.2.zip
Now we can extract the file contents.
unzip owncloud-8.2.2.zip
Now we will copy the files to your web servers root folder.
sudo cp -r owncloud /var/www/html
We now give the Apache User ownership of the owncloud folder
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/owncloud/
Next we will configure apache to host your OwnCloud.For this we will need to create the owncloud config.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf
Our configuration should look like this
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Dav off
SetEnv HOME /var/www/html/owncloud
SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/html/owncloud
Restart Apache to apply the config file
sudo service apache2 restart
The last step to complete is to run the Installation Wizard.
Open your Web browser and go to the servers IP.
http://serverip/owncloud
Now we create the admin username and password and select the data folder where we want the files that OwnCloud will share.
We need to configure the database for the OwnCloud installation, we can choose the name that we want for the database, and we will be using the root user and password we created earlier.
