How to install OwnCloud 10 on Debian 8 Jessie

Debian Tutorial – Owncloud 10 has been released a while ago with many interesting features, bug fixes and improvements. Today, I am going to show you how to install Owncloud 10 on Debian 8 server. Owncloud is an open source web application that lets us to create our own cloud storage and sharing services. Its pretty similar features to Dropbox in some sections. Its great to have our Owncloud server running on our own system, and Debian is a great OS to get start with.

Steps to install Owncloud 10 on Debian 8

Step 1. Install LAMP Server

In order to install Owncloud, you will need a working LAMP server on your Debian. Please read my previous post to install LAMP Server on Debian 8 Jessie. If you have installed LAMP Server on Debian 8, please jump to next steps. Owncloud needs additional modules to work properly.

apt install php5-gd php5-curl
systemctl restart apache2

Step 2. Download Owncloud package

apt install unzip
cd /tmp
wget https://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-10.0.0.zip

Extract the package

unzip owncloud-10.0.0.zip

It will produce a new directory called owncloud. Now move this owncloud directory to /var/www/html

mv owncloud /var/www/html/

Change the permission

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/owncloud

Step 3. Create a new Database

Now we need to create a new database and new user for owncloud. You may change the database name and user with your own.

#login to mysql. You will need root password for mysql server
mysql -u root -p

#create a new user for owncloud
CREATE USER 'owncloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '12345678';

#create new database
CREATE DATABASE owncloud;

#grant privileges
GRANT ALL ON OWNCLOUD.* TO 'owncloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '12345678';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Step 3. Prepare the virtual host

On this example, I would like to install Owncloud under my root domain (theplanetfootball.com). It should be accessible via the following address: http://theplanetfootball.com/owncloud.

Create a new virtual host

Copy the 000-default.conf to something such as owncloud.conf

cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf

Now edit the new copied file

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf

Now change the lines inside owncloud.conf. Attached is the example of mine. You may modified them to match your settings.

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin admin@theplanetfootball.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/owncloud
        ServerName theplanetfootball.com/owncloud
        ServerAlias www.theplanetfootball.com/owncloud
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Step 4. Configure Owncloud

Now we are ready to configure Owncloud via Web browser. Open Web browser and point to your server IP. For example: http://10.34.0.1/owncloud.

Follow on screen wizard, you will be asked to enter the database user, database name, password etc.