Installing ownCloud 9 on CentOS 7

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

Alex Sage

What if I want my data encrypted? Is there a option for this?

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said:

What if I want my data encrypted? Is there a option for this?

Not without ownCloud itself, that would not be the right place as they only handle the application layer. Encryption would be handled by the storage layer which is LVM and XFS here, in Linux. So a good example and, I think, the most likely candidate for this would be using LUKS to encrypt the storage layer. LUKS is very enterprise and included in Linux, so nothing third party. If you use the separate /data block device like I would recommend for production, you can encrypt that without encrypting the / filesystem making things vastly easier.

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller Great!

So I did create /data now how do I encrypt it?

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said:

@scottalanmiller Great!

So I did create /data now how do I encrypt it?

I'm going to need to write a whole article on this. It's been a while since I did this. But I did build the encryption infrastructure for a major financial firm, so I'm used to working with it.