Personal cloud storage on your server similar like Dropbox : Installation OwnCloud on CentOS

Introduction:

OwnCloud is a open score system for File hosting for self-host. It has a good web suite that provides a cloud storage over the network, data can be uploaded via web browser or using software client. The project is based on PHP and a SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL database. This blog for install ownCloud on CentOS. Personal cloud storage : Installation OwnCloud on CentOS

Initial setup:

Install all CentOS current updates

yum -y update                                                                                           

Next, Need to install Apache, PHP and MySQL (LAMP) and some php extensions

Apache Install

yum -y install httpd                                                                                    

PHP Install with Extensions

yum -y install php php-mysql php-dom php-mbstring php-gd php-pdo            

MySQL Install

yum -y install mysql-server                                                                         

Start Apache using the following command:

service httpd start                                                                                      

Start  MySQL by issuing this command:
service mysqld start                                                                                    

OwnCloud Installation:

First need to download ownCloud with following command.

wget https://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-7.0.0.tar.bz2        

Extract the archive we just downloaded.

tar -jxvf owncloud-7.0.0.tar.bz2 -C /var/www/html/                                      

Next, Need to assign the permission of read and write the files to owncloud directory.

chown -R apache.apache /var/www/html/owncloud/                                      

DataBase configuration

Login to mysql server, Using the following command

mysql -u root -p                                                                                         

mysql> create database clouddb;                                                      

mysql> create user 'clouddbuser'@'localhost' identified by'password';  

mysql> grant all on clouddb.* to 'clouddbuser'@'localhost';                 

mysql> flush privileges;                                                                   

mysql> quit;                                                                                   

Apache server configuration

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/owncloud.conf                                                           

Add the following lines in the config file.

<IfModule mod_alias.c>

Alias /owncloud /var/www/html/owncloud

</IfModule>

<Directory “/var/www/html/owncloud”>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

allow from all

</Directory>

Restart all apache and MySQL services:

service httpd restart                                                                                 

service mysqld restart                                                                                 

OwnCloud configuration:

Open up your browser and paste http://your_ip_address/owncloud.
It will shows the initial owncloud setup page.
it must be configured before going to live.  

                                                                                                                       

Now you have your own storage in the cloud. Congratulations !!