As you may know ownCloud is a wonderful FREE online storage platform that can be install in any kind of environment without those annoying restrictions of max file size, total storage and bandwidth constraints. It can be deployed on almost any box you may have laying around for a quick online storage system. Being free and early in stage it has its minor/major issues when trying to get out its full potential, along the way I’ve done multiple installations trying to make this work as flawless as possible and here is a complete guide on how to install it on CentOS 6.4.
Lets start by assuming you already have a web server running on Centos 6.4 with PHP 5.5 (Important that you have this version), if not then refer to these online guides on how to do so.
Once you have your webserver up and running we can continue with our installation of ownCloud.
To install ownCloud
Great it won’t install (missing dependency)
Error: Package: owncloud-5.0.7-4.1.noarch (isv_ownCloud_community)
Requires: php-pear-Net-Curl
Error: Package: owncloud-5.0.7-4.1.noarch (isv_ownCloud_community)
Requires: php-pear-MDB2-Driver-mysqli
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Install missing repo
Awesome ownCloud was installed successfully now to do a post-install
Now point your browser to your server’s IP (if you don’t know it run ifconfig)
https://your_ip/owncloud
If for some reason your server doesn’t resolve you might have an iptables problem, follow this guide on how to work iptables magic
iptables Guide
iptables Guide
Once your server resolves and can see the ownCloud login page follow these instructions.
In the case you get an error when loading ownCloud like this one
It’s saying that PHP has a missing module called php5-mbstring it can be fixed by simply restarting the apache server
Reload the ownCloud page and you should now see the initial installation (ignore any PHP version warnings).
Proceed to create a username and password for admin account. Before submitting check under the “Advanced” dropdown for additional settings such as where is your data going to be stored? and if you would like to use SQLite or MySQL
For this tutorial I will leave the data folder to default, however, I will choose MySQL to complicate things a bit more.
For a faster deployment you may want to use SQLite.
If you decide to use MySQL you will first need to create a database for ownCloud, to do so you can do it two ways, bash OR phpMyAdmin To install phpMyAdmin follow these instructions:
Then edit the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
And edit the lines after
And edit the lines after
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
To look like this
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c> # Apache 2.2 Order Deny,Allow Allow from All </IfModule>
Then restart apache server
Go to
http://your_ip/phpMyAdmin
And create a database, for this tutorial I’ve created a db named “owncloud”
Once you’ve created the db go ahead enter the info to the owncloud initial installation settings and click “Finish setup”
Finally we have a working ownCloud instance!
But wait, there’s more…
As of right now you can use it and it will work fine, the hard part begins now if you would like to get an important feature to work correctly.
Lets say you upload a 2MB file, it goes through right? Try it.
Lets say you upload a 2MB file, it goes through right? Try it.
Ok great it went through, but lets say now you want to upload a 10GB video file(or any other format). Try it.
Something wrong? It didn’t go through right? For two reasons:
1. Our current configuration only allows for max file size of 513MB files
2. We’ll get to this one later.
2. We’ll get to this one later.
To increase our maximum file size we must configure an .htaccess file located in the owncloud installation folder.
Navigate to
Navigate to
And change the values for
php_value upload_max_filesize 513M php_value post_max_size 513M php_value memory_limit 512M
To your desired/limitation values
1G,2G,10G,… you get the point
1G,2G,10G,… you get the point
Save the file and restart apache server
On the upload file button the label should have changed to your now updated values.
Lets try that 10G file upload again.
Problem?
At this point you probably got a warning saying
To fix this you will actually be modifying some php code from owncloud. Go ahead and navigate to this dir
Now html-comment out this line
<!--<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" id="max_upload"
value="<?php p($_['uploadMaxFilesize']) ?>">-->
Save file and reload
Try uploading the 10GB file again.
Now we don’t get this error but the file never finishes uploading (spinning thing going on forever). So what is the issue now you ask?
The issue is the MySQL timesout on these huge files which is the reason they don’t go through.
The issue is the MySQL timesout on these huge files which is the reason they don’t go through.
To fix this add this after the php_value memory_limit line in the .htaccess file in the ownCloud installation folder again.
php_value max_input_time -1 php_value max_execution_time 60000 php_value default_socket_timeout 60000 php_value mysql.connect_timeout -1
Save and reload apache server.
Try re-uploading the 10G file and watch as it magically works
Try re-uploading the 10G file and watch as it magically works
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