Archlinux¶

There are two AUR packages for ownCloud:

• stable version
• development version

openSUSE¶

1. Copy ownCloud to Apache’s server directory : /srv/www/htdocs
2. Give the web server the necessary permissions:

sudo chown -R wwwrun owncloud

3. Open the folder in a browser and complete the setup wizard

If have followed the steps above and want to try it out, run this command in a terminal to start Apache if it’s not already running:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

Go to http://servername/owncloud and walk through the setup.

Fedora¶

Make sure SELinux is disabled or else the installation process will fail with the following message:

Config file (config/config.php) is not writable for the webserver

Configure Apache:

1. If you already have a website running from Document Root but would still like to install OwnCloud you can use a Name-based virtual host entry and subdomain.
2. Edit your DNS record following this example: point owncloud.foo.com > ip.ip.ip.ip

CentOS 5 & 6¶

1. Create a new file in /etc/httpd/conf/ and call it owncloud.conf.
2. You can use the following as an example:

<IfModule mod_alias.c>
Alias /owncloud /var/www/owncloud/
</IfModule>
<Directory /var/www/owncloud/>
   Options None
   Order allow,deny
   allow from all
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin foo@foofarm.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/owncloud
    ServerName owncloud.foo.com
    ErrorLog logs/owncloud.foo.info-error_log
    CustomLog logs/owncloud.foo.info-access_log common

</VirtualHost>

3. Now edit your httpd.conf file which is usually located in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
4. Add the following to the bottom

Include /etc/httpd/conf/owncloud.conf

5. Restart apache and now when you point your browser to http://owncloud.foo.com it should properly load without affecting http://foo.com

Gentoo¶

Set up a standard web server (see instructions above). Then change permissions:

chown -R apache:apache owncloud

Allow .htaccess, modify /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf and make sure it contains the following section

<Directory /var/www/localhost/htdocs/owncloud>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

PCLinuxOS¶

Follow the Tutorial ownCloud, installation and setup on the PCLinuxOS web site.

Ubuntu / Debian¶

Go to the linux package sources page and execute the steps as described there for your distribution.