How to Install ownCloud 10 on CentOS & RHEL

ownCloud provides data access using web interface. It also provides options to sync and share across devices—all under your control. Using ownCloud we can easily implement restrictions on file (ACLs) per user. ownCloud provides its desktop clients (Windows, MAC, Linux) as well as mobile apps (Android and iPhone) to keep our data sync on your device.

This tutorial will help you to Install ownCloud 10 on CentOS, RedHat, and Fedora systems.

Features of ownCloud:

1. ownCloud provides data accessibility through android, iOS and desktop clients.
2. ownCloud provides data to store on external storage like Dropbox, S3, Google Docs etc.
3. ownCloud maintains files previous versions so that we can recover from any accidental delete.

Step 1 – Enable EPEL/REMI Repository

First, you need to enable REMI & EPEL yum repositories in your system. Use one of below commands as per your operating system version.

CentOS/RHEL 7:
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

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

CentOS/RHEL 5:
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-releas5-4.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm

Step 2 – Install LAMP

Before installation, we first need to setup a running LAMP server. If you have already running LAMP stack skip this step else use followings commands to setup lamp stack.

Install Apache

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install httpd

Install MySQL

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install mysql-server
# service mysqld start
# /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Install PHP

# yum --enablerepo=remi,epel install php php-mysql php-mcrypt php-curl php-gd php-xml php-dom php-mbstring
# service httpd restart

Step 3 – Download ownCloud Archive

After successfully configuring lamp server on your system, Let’s download latest ownCloud from its official website.

# cd Downloads/
# wget https://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-10.0.0.tar.bz2

Now extract downloaded archive under website document root and setup appropriate permissions on files and directories.

# cd /var/www/html
# tar xjf ~/Downloads/owncloud-10.0.0.tar.bz2
# chown -R apache.apache owncloud
# chmod -R 755 owncloud

Now, remove the archive file.

#  rm -f ~/Downloads/owncloud-10.0.0.tar.bz2

Step 4 – Create MySQL Database and User

After extracting code, let’s create a mysql database and user account for configuring ownCloud. Use following set of command to login to mysql server and create database and user.

# 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

Step 5 – Install ownCloud with Web Installer

Now access the ownCloud directory on the web browser as below. Change localhost to your server IP address or domain name.

 http://localhost/owncloud/

Enter new admin credentials to create an admin account and provide the location of the data folder.

Now slide your page down and input the database credentials and click on Finish Setup.

After completing setup you will get admin dashboard. Where you can create user, groups, assigned them permissions etc.