Install Owncloud 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server

We are back again with Owncloud installation tutorial.In this post we will learn, how to install Owncloud 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 server. In our previous post , we have installed Owncloud 6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server. Now Owncloud team presenting an awesome 7th version. It has many features. One of the known is ownCloud 7 Sneak Peek: More Sharing .

To know more about Owncloud 7 version and its features, we will suggest you to visit Owncloud 7 webpage.

How to install Owncloud 7

Follow the given below steps to achieve the succesful installation of Owncloud 7 on your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server.

1. Install MySQL Server

Installing mysql server 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 is quite easy , you have to just simply run the below given command.
At the time of writing this MySQL version 5.6 stable release was available whereas MySQL 5.7 was on preview release. Hence, we are prefer to go with stable release.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.6

Set the MySQL root password when it is prompted on screen and reconfirm the password also.Here is the below given screenshot.

2. Create Owncloud database and its user in MySQL

Now MySQL server is installed in system. Create database and user in MySQL for Owncloud.
For security point of view we are not using MySQL root user in Owncloud.

Owncloud Database Name : owncloudDB
Owncloud MySQL User : ownclouduser
Password for MySQL User (ownclouduser) : Password (Replace this and use your strong password)

Here is given below summary for creating database,user in MySQL server for Owncloud.

1. login into mysql server mysql -u root -p
2. Create database create database owncloudDB;
3. Create User and set password CREATE USER 'ownclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Password';
4. Grant privileges user on database GRANT ALL ON owncloudDB.* TO 'ownclouduser'@'localhost';
5. Flush privileges flush privileges;
6. And exit exit

The below given is the reference from our system.

sharad@ubuntu:~$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or g.
Your MySQL connection id is 44
Server version: 5.6.19-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 (Ubuntu)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or 'h' for help. Type 'c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> create database owncloudDB;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec)

mysql> 
mysql> CREATE USER 'ownclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Password';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.07 sec)

mysql> 
mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| owncloudDB         |
| performance_schema |
+--------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> 
mysql> GRANT ALL ON owncloudDB.* TO 'ownclouduser'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec)

mysql> 
mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> exit
Bye
sharad@ubuntu:~$

Install Apache web server, PHP and PHP-MySQL extension

For web server we will install Apache server and by defualt in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, it will install Apache 2.4 version .
Owncloud is PHP based, so installing PHP also.
To connect the MySQL from PHP code, we will install PHP-MySQL module.

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-mysql

The following extra packages will be installed by default. If not happened, install it by using apt-get command just as we are doing with other packages:

apache2-bin apache2-data libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap php5-cli php5-common php5-json php5-readline ssl-cert

Enabling rewrite module in Apache

The Owncloud will use .htaccess with some rewrite rule. Hence to make it working enable rewrite module.

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

Add Owncloud repository

First install apt key.

wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:community/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key

Add Owncloud repository information in apt.

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/ownCloud:/community/xUbuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"

Installing Owncloud 7

The owncloud apt repository information is saved in system ( at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list).

Now it is time to get the awesome Owncloud 7.Run the below given command.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install owncloud

Setup Owncloud via Web browser

The further steps will be done on we browser. So open your favorite web browser like firefox/chrome/midori .

Our Ubuntu server ip address is 192.168.56.102 . Check your system ip address by using command - ifconfig

First take the backup of Apache's owncloud.conf original file.

cp -p  /etc/apache2/conf.d/owncloud.conf /etc/apache2/owncloud.conf.backup.orig

Lets have take a look on owncloud.conf file. The given below is default setup for owncloud.

cat /etc/apache2/conf.d/owncloud.conf
 
Alias /owncloud /var/www/owncloud

  AllowOverride All

Open the web browser and in address bar type server ip address with /owncloud .
Give administrator user name and password for your owncloud.

Click on "Storage & database". Then click on "MySQL/MariaDB" - it will show other fields related to database information.

Fill up the information which we have set at Step 2. Create Owncloud database and its user in MySQL

It will take some time and in next screen you will get welcome page. Close the welcome page get the world of Owncloud 7 on your web browser.

I have tried to make it simple installation. Advanced user can also set, IP based and domain based apache virtual host.