ownCloud 9.0, Ubuntu and a Few More Things
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I know there was a fair amount of discussion on some recent threads about error messages, ownCloud 9.0 and supported configurations. I appreciate the time that @scottalanmiller and @JaredBusch shared earlier today with me and the head of products here at ownCloud, Inc. He has created the following update to help clarify some of the recent discussions. Thanks, -K
Given our new release of ownCloud 9.0, we wanted to answer some of the many questions folks have been asking all in one spot. First, we had a report of a few bugs in the ownCloud admin interface relating to internet connections, cURL, and PHP versions on some operating systems. We are working on these and other bug fixes and hope to have then updated in our upcoming releases. (thank you for the bug reports)
We also had questions about our recommended ownCloud configuration. Certainly ownCloud can (and does) run successfully in many environments, and just because our recommendation isn’t your environment, doesn’t mean you have to do anything about it – you should stick with what you know. We do, after all, provide packages for many OSes on owncloud.org and they work. Still, many have asked, so our recommended configuration for professional hosting of ownCloud Community Edition is the following:
CentOS 7 with REMI and EPEL repositories, PHP 5.6, Apache 2.4, MariaDB and ownCloud
As a note, with the ownCloud Enterprise Edition, we find most of our customers run their preferred and supported vendor, usually SLES, RHEL (CentOS) or Ubuntu. We mention this here only because these are the operating systems that we will spend time working with for the Enterprise Edition, and sometimes decisions to support packages (like PHP 5.4) are based on the support these platforms offer for these packages. We also mention it here because recent conversations have led to confusion about what we support – and these OSes are supported and critical to us. Of course we provide packages for other OSes, and one can even run ownCloud on other platforms, but these are the most tested, most often used choices.
We also wanted to address the question asked about the Ubuntu Community and Enterprise Edition appliances we provide. The use of Ubuntu is a commercial decision, because we want our customers who start with the Community or Enterprise Editions to be able to run in production. For many, production requires a fully supported stack. There is only one vendor that allows ISVs to package their OS as a virtual appliance and distribute it for free, and then also allow end customers to purchase an OS support license when they take the virtual appliance from a PoC into production: Ubuntu. For us to package ownCloud into a virtual appliance, and to not have to purchase an enterprise license for each downloaded appliance, we have to use Ubuntu. That is the only reason we distribute this appliance, the business terms match our need.
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Thank you for taking the time to address concerns.
You will need to update owncloud.org to reflect this clearly, but hey 9.0 just came out. I won't kill you for not getting all the documents up to date for a week or three.
I know I will work on new documentation for myself (and post here like always) for installing the community edition making use of the REMI repo and PHP 5.6
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How is @kelleybrooks related to OC?
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@kelleybrooks Thank you for taking the time to talk to some of the Mangos here and for taking the time to straighten out some of the confusion too. We look forward to hearing more.
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@FATeknollogee said:
How is @kelleybrooks related to OC?
Everything in that post after the "Thanks, -K" was not Kelley. It was the response from Matt Richards, the VP of Products and Marketing.
Kelley is the Director of Marketing and is also the OC GG on SW.
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Thx for the heads up.
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I'm not sure how the above answers the other thread's specific question about why the errors were incorrect or am I just being very dense?
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@Breffni-Potter Many of the error messages are indeed bugs and have been added to the Enterprise repo in github. Hope to work them into the next release which will be several weeks out.
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@kelleybrooks and Matt, thanks so much for your attention to this, taking the time to provide this clarification and your time and effort in the community. It is very much appreciated.
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@scottalanmiller Right back at you
