Installing ownCloud on CentOS 7

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OwnCloud is an open source project that can be installed on your server to securely store and access files.

OwnCloud 10.0.7 requires the following installed and running.

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PHP 7.0 or above with the following extension (XML, curl, ctype, JSON, iconv, intl, mcrypt, PDO, Phar, GD Graphics Library version 2.0.x+, DOM, openssl, bz2, Zlib and Zip.) MySQL 5.5 or above version, Apache web server 2.0

Update the OS Packages

yum update -y

Now install PHP 7.2 using the following commands.

First, we Install the EPEL and Remi repository packages.

yum install epel-release yum-utils -y

yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php72

Install PHP7.2 and required PHP extension which is required for owncloud using the following command.

yum install php php-mysqlnd php-pecl-zip php-xml php-mbstring php-gd php-mcrypt php-pear php-pspell php-pdo php-xml php-intl php-zip php-zlib

Open the PHP configuration file and increase the upload file size.

vi /etc/php.ini

Change post_max_size to 256 MB and upload_max_filesize to 256MB and save the file

We can set the post_max_size and upload_max_filesize as per the need

Restart the httpd service after the change

systemctl restart httpd.service

Download ownCloud and extract it using the following command.

cd /opt && wget https://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-10.0.7.zip

Extract the downloaded file.

unzip -d /var/www/html/ owncloud-10.0.7.zip

Now change the permissions of owncloud directory.

chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/owncloud/
chmod +R 755 /var/www/html/owncloud

Create a new MySQL database.

mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE ownclouddb;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ownclouddb.* TO 'ownclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'enter your password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> exit

Create a new virtual host in Apache.

touch /etc/httpd/conf.d/owncloud.conf
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/owncloud.conf

And, paste the following lines and enter your server IP address and save the file.

<VirtualHost YOUR_SERVER_IP:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/owncloud/"
<Directory "/var/www/html/owncloud/">
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Create a new ownCloud ownClouddata directory outside of the document root and change the permission of it.

mkdir -p /opt/data
chown apache:apache -R /opt/ownClouddata/

Restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect.

systemctl restart httpd.service

Open the port in firewall using following command.

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload

Set SELinux mode to permissive.

Run the following command.

setenforce 0

And change the mode in file.

vi /etc/selinux/config

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
  SELINUX=permissive
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
# targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
# mls - Multi Level Security protection.
  SELINUXTYPE=targeted

Now type your IP address in the URL to complete the ownCloud installation.

http://server_IP

You will have to create admin account for ownCloud

Enter the username and password which you want to set.

Now click on the Storage and database and select MySQL/MariaDB

Fill the database information and click on the Finish setup button.