ownCloud installation CentOS 6.5 instruction-XeonBD Blog

ownCloud is an open source & share app platform. ownCloud is a universal file access platform that is hosted in your data center, on your servers, using your storage.

Moreover ownCloud propose you the ability to run a cloud storage service as a file sharing server. ownCloud also provides us self-hosted file sync and share app platform.

Features of ownCloud:

ownCloud helps to keep our data sync on our device.
ownCloud provides data accessibility through android, and desktop clients(Windows, MAC, Linux) as well as mobile apps (Android and iPhone iOS)
ownCloud helps to store files on external storage like Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google Drive etc.

How to install ownCloud:

Do you know how to install ownCloud server? You can easily get the latest release of ownCloud by installing ownCloud 9 on Centos & RHEL. Let’s see the procedure.

# Step 1

First of all try to install CentOs in your system.

Login in your server as a root.
Update the system

# sudo yum update
# reboot -h now

# Step 2

Change hostname to a real domain or a fully qualified domain. For this article I’ve used owncloud.fahmida.me as a fully qualified domain.

[root@fahmida ~]# hostname
fahmida
[root@fahmida ~]# hostname owncloud.fahmida.me

Edit host name “fahmida” to “ owncloud.fahmida.me”

[root@fahmida ~]# nano /etc/hosts
[root@fahmida ~]# nano /etc/hostname

reboot the System

[root@fahmida ~]# reboot -h now

[root@fahmida ~]# hostname
owncloud.fahmida.me

For save this change press Ctrl + x

# Step 3

Enable REMI & EPEL yum repositories in your system

Use this commands as per your operating system version

CentOS/RHEL 6:
[root@fahmida ~]# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
[root@fahmida ~]# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

# Step 4

Enable repi/remo for yum

# nano /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo

Enable [remi], [remi-php5.5], [remi-php5.6] for php version 5.5 & 5.6

Please Press Ctrl + x for save this change.

# Step 5

Install Apache

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install httpd

# Step 6

Install MySQL server

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install mysql-server

Start Mysql

# service mysqld start

# Step 7

Set Mysql root Password

In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we’ll need the current password for the root user. Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQL root user without the proper authorisation.

#/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

# Step 8

Install PHP

#yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install php php-mysql php-mcrypt php-curl php-gd

Install php dom extension

#sudo yum install php-xml

Restart the Service

# service httpd restart

# Step 9

Install wget for downloading ownCloud

[root@fahmida ~]# yum install wget

# Step 10

Download latest ownCloud Source from its official website

You can download own cloud on your home directory.

[root@fahmida home]# wget http://fahmida.me/owncloud_file/owncloud-9.1.3.tar.bz2

# Step 11

Extract downloaded archive

Now extract downloaded archive under home directory and setup appropriate permissions on files and directories.

[root@fahmida home]# tar -xjf owncloud-9.0.1.tar.bz2

Copy the archive file into Var directory

[root@fahmida home]# cp /home/owncloud-9.1.3.tar.bz2 /var/www/html

# Step 12

Give Appache pemission on owncloud directory using following commands

[root@fahmida html]# chown -R apache.apache owncloud
[root@fahmida html]# chmod -R 755 owncloud

Allow ip table to response on port 80

[root@fahmida html]# iptables -I INPUT 5 -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

# Step 13

Change file name “ var/www/html/owncloud” to “/home/owncloud”

[root@fahmida ~]# nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Press Ctrl + w for search file “ var/www/html/owncloud”. For Save this change press Ctrl + x

# Step 14

Restart the service

[root@fahmida ~]# service httpd restart

# Step 15

Create MySQL Database and User for configuring owncloud

Use MySQL Database password for logging.

[root@fahmida home]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE owncloud;
mysql> GRANT ALL ON owncloud.* to 'owncloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '_password_';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit