Distro Notes

Archlinux

There are two AUR packages for ownCloud 2:

openSUSE

Copy ownCloud to Apache‘s server directory: /srv/www/htdocs
Give the web server the necessary permissions: sudo chown -R wwwrun owncloud
- If you are not a “sudo’er” then you have to become root and execute: chown -R wwwrun owncloud in the directory.
- (If you’re using mysql, you have to set the database character set to something else then utf-8, for example latin1 otherwise some keys will be to long for mysql)
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://127.0.0.1/owncloud/index.php and set it up. Hit the enter key to submit the details in the form.

SLES and openSUSE rpm packages build in ownCloud 2.0.1 openSUSE Build Service

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:

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.
Edit your DNS record following this example: point owncloud.foo.com > ip.ip.ip.ip

CENTOS5

Create a new file in /etc/httpd/conf/ and call it owncloud.conf.
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>

Now edit your httpd.conf file which is usually located in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add the following to the bottom: Include /etc/httpd/conf/owncloud.conf
Restart apache and now when you point your browser to owncloud.foo.com it should properly load without disturbing foo.com

Gentoo

Basically do everything like for a standard web server (see above). Change permissions: chown -R apache:apache owncloud Allow .htaccess, modify /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf and make sure this is in

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

PCLinuxOS

Tutorial: ownCloud, installation and setup

MacOS

Install MAMP and run it.
Go to ‘Preferences ? Apache’ and set ‘Document Root’ to /Users/<YOUR USER NAME>/Sites, so your Sites directory will be used as Apache root.
Download ownCloud
- latest development version
- from repository: git clone git://gitorious.org/owncloud/owncloud.git
Move it to ~/Sites and extract it: tar xfpj owncloud-1.2.tar.bz2
Now you can set it up by going to http://localhost:8888/owncloud

OpenWrt

Tutorial: ownCloud on OpenWrt

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