Installing ownCloud 9 on CentOS 7

scottalanmiller

Starting with a clean, minimal install of CentOS, we will want to add additional storage space as this is a file server and using the default storage space would be rather inadequate.

clone centos 7 owncloud on scale hc3

make extra block device on scale hc3

I use a 200GB VirtIO block device here for high performance and decent storage space. In my example I mounted this block device to /data and my example reflects this.

Installing ownCloud is reasonably straightforward:

yum -y install wget mariadb-server php-mysql
yum -y update
rpm --import https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/CentOS_7/repodata/repomd.xml.key
wget http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/CentOS_7/ce:stable.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/ce:stable.repo
setenforce permissive
yum clean expire-cache
yum -y install owncloud
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/owncloud
chown -R apache:apache /data
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=443/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
systemctl start httpd
systemctl enable httpd

After this is complete you can access your ownCloud web interface at http://yourserversipaddress/owncloud

If you are just testing, you can just use SQLite at this point and move on. If you are doing this for production you should use MariaDB either locally (as shown in the example) or externally (often for a very large install.) You can create a database on MariaDB, set the username and password and ownCloud will simply ask for these details in the web setup screens.

owncloud 9 setup

Change the Data Folder to /data if you are setting up as I have.

Alex Sage

Did you use vultr?

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said:

Did you use vultr?

Scale HC3. If you are looking for cloud hosted, Vultr is pretty ideal for ownCloud and we have built there in the past and have some OC workloads there.

Vultr does not use the "second" block device, though. You'd see the space as one large pool, not two.

Alex Sage

What if I want owncloud on the root of the domain?

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said:

What if I want owncloud on the root of the domain?

I'm not sure that I understand the question.

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller said:

I want domain.com to bring me to the owncloud login, not domain.com/owncloud

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I want domain.com to bring me to the owncloud login, not domain.com/owncloud

OH!! LOL, that makes sense. I wasn't thinking about that at all.

Then go into your Apache configuration settings and move the "root" up one level to include the owncloud directory. There will be a line that points to /var/www/html/ and instead change that to /var/www/html/owncloud.

You can do this after installation is all done. No need to do it during the installation.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

@aaronstuder said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I want domain.com to bring me to the owncloud login, not domain.com/owncloud

OH!! LOL, that makes sense. I wasn't thinking about that at all.

Then go into your Apache configuration settings and move the "root" up one level to include the owncloud directory. There will be a line that points to /var/www/html/ and instead change that to /var/www/html/owncloud.

You can do this after installation is all done. No need to do it during the installation.

I never have the owncloud instance on the root of a domain so I always use it as a sub domain. Typically oc.domain.com and I have never bothered to remove the owncloud directory.

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said:

I never have the owncloud instance on the root of a domain so I always use it as a sub domain. Typically oc.domain.com and I have never bothered to remove the owncloud directory.

That's normally what we do. https://oc.companydomain.com/

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

If you are just testing, you can just use SQLite at this point and move on. If you are doing this for production you should use MariaDB either locally (as shown in the example) or externally (often for a very large install.) You can create a database on MariaDB, set the username and password and ownCloud will simply ask for these details in the web setup screens.

This is really not clear to someone that has not done this before.
You cannot create the MariaDB instancefrom the GUI. it needs to be done during setup. See my 8.2 documentation for details.

Alex Sage

Couple of things:

Your missing:
```
mkdir /data
```
I hate disabling SELinux - Let's fix it not turn it off
You should have database setup instructions

Alex Sage

You forget to turn on the database

systemctl start mariadb
systemctl enable mariadb

JaredBusch

@aaronstuder said:

You forget to turn on the database
systemctl start mariadb
systemctl enable mariadb

No, he did not. he is not using MariaDB in this example.

JaredBusch

@aaronstuder said:

Couple of things:
Your missing:
mkdir /data
I hate disabling SELinux - Let's fix it not turn it off

You should have database setup instructions

You are assuming things here that are not true.

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said:

I hate disabling SELinux - Let's fix it not turn it off

It's just turned off for the install, it's not off in general.

Alex Sage

@JaredBusch said:

No, he did not. he is not using MariaDB in this example.

Then why install it?

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said:

You forget to turn on the database
systemctl start mariadb
systemctl enable mariadb

You'd need to do that for the database creation steps that I mentinoed in the description

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said:

@JaredBusch said:

No, he did not. he is not using MariaDB in this example.

Then why install it?

Just to have it at the ready.

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller OK

scottalanmiller

We run with an external MariaDB system. So the third option