Owncloud: how to have your own cloud in ubuntu

In computing terms, a cloud is a network attached storage device (NAS). An example of these services are Dropbox, Box or Google Drive, these are considered public clouds. Another category is private clouds, which are used mostly in organizations, but can also be very useful at home. An example for your use may be creating a centralized media library. That is, having a centralized point for your movies, videos, music, photos, etc. where all users can access from any place and device in the home. For this reason, among others, today we bring you an ownCloud tutorial : How to have your own cloud in Ubuntu.

ownCloud: How to have your own cloud in Ubuntu

What is ownCloud?

It is a client that provides synchronization and file sharing services, while it is hosted on your servers and using its storage. Additionally, it offers the possibility of having access control and permission of connected users. With ownCloud, users can have universal access, supported by security systems, policies and management tools.

On the business front, ownCloud offers a business file sync solution that allows users to access files on any device, anytime, anywhere. allowing to manage and control the activity of file sharing, through auditing. These actions to guarantee compliance with security measures, through a single interface for all disparate systems.

Benefits of using ownCloud

• You decide where to store the files. You manage your own server, it can even be your own computer. You use your own storage and decide how to distribute it. You can establish security and administration policies. It offers encryption 2.0. It provides Firewall, that is, you can define advanced rules to control access to data, based on user connections, time of day, device, IP, geography, and other relevant criteria. May include file analysis. Provides a management API. Can be integrated into existing backup solutions. Allows customization of appearance settings to integrate with other applications. Provides features and resources for access from mobile applications.

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Dependencies Installation

Before installing ownCloud, we proceed to install the necessary requirements on our computer.

First, the LAMP server will ask you for a password associated with the MySQL Database, it is important that you remember it later. We execute the following:

sudo apt-get install lamp-server

sudo mysql_secure_installation

We insert the following codes:

change root password

Click on No. and insert the following code:

remove anonymous users

Click on Yes. And we insert the following code:

disallow remote root logins

Click on Yes. And we insert the following code:

remove test database and access to it

Click on Yes. And we insert the following code:

reload privilege tables

Click on Yes. And we insert the following code.

Then we proceed with these dependencies:

sudo apt-get install php5-gd php-xml-parser php5-intl smbclient curl libcurl3 php5-curl

Then, we must enable certain Apache modules, in order for ownCloud to work normally. The modules are: mod_rewrite and mod_headers and we enable them with the following lines:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo a2enmod headers

To finish, we edit the Apache2 configuration file to enable the rules of the ownCloud rewrite module to work.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Being in the edition of the file, we located the section in which we will replace AllowOverride None with AllowOverride All, save the file and restart Apache2 so that the changes are taken.

sudo service apache2 restart

Installation and configuration

Once the requirements are verified, now if we are going to download the latest version, additionally we grant the necessary permissions, for this, we run the following command lines:

wget http://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-latest.tar.bz2 tar -xjf owncloud-latest.tar.bz2 sudo mv owncloud / var / www / html / cd / var / www / html / sudo chown -R www-data: www-data owncloud

Following this we need to create a database. So we go into MySQL and add one:

mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE owncloud

We assign the user owncloud our preference password and exit MySQL:

GRANT ALL ON owncloud. * TO 'owncloud' @ 'localhost' IDENTIFIE quit

To finish, we enter our ownCloud cloud, from our favorite web browser placing in the address bar “ ip / owncloud “, the ip address can be consulted with the ifconfig command .

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Here we will create the administrator account, leave the configuration settings in the same way, fill in the data from the database (with the one we created in the previous step), click on "complete the installation" and voila! At the moment of entering, we viewed the links to download both the desktop client and our SmartPhone.

This is a bit of a laborious process, but it will surely be worth it for all the benefit we can get from our particular cloud. Enjoy it! You can leave any questions or suggestions in the comments. We recommend reading our tutorials and if you have any questions, you can contact us.