HowTo Install OwnCloud On CentOS-7

S. Sharad

If you have freshly installed server then follow the steps given below.

Step -1 : 

Disable SELinux and Firewalld.

# setenforce 0
# systemctl stop firewalld
# systemctl disable firewalld
# rm -f /etc/selinux/config
# touch /etc/selinux/config
# chmod 644 /etc/selinux/config
# echo "SELINUX=disabled" > /etc/selinux/config
# echo "SELINUXTYPE=targeted" > /etc/selinux/config

Step-2 : 

Update the system.

# yum update -y

Step-3 :

Install MariaDB Server and configure. Replace MyPassword with your own password.

# yum install mariadb-server mariadb -y
# systemctl enable mariadb
# systemctl start mariadb
# mysql -e "create database owncloud" 
# mysql -e "create user 'owncloud'@'localhost' identified by 'MyPassword'"
# mysql -e "grant all privileges on owncloud.* to 'owncloud'@'localhost'"
# mysql -e "flush privileges"

Step-4 :

Install PHP 7.4 and some extensions.

# yum install -y http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm 
# yum --enablerepo=remi-php74 install php php-bz2 php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-intl php-common php-mbstring php-xml php-zip php-posix -y

Step-5 :

Install Apache Web Server.

# yum install wget unzip httpd bzip2 -y
# systemctl enable httpd 
# systemctl restart httpd

Step-6 :

Download latest OwnCloud Code and configure Apache Web Server.

# cd /var/www/html/
# wget https://download.owncloud.com/server/stable/owncloud-latest.tar.bz2
# tar -xvjf owncloud-latest.tar.bz2
# mv owncloud/* /var/www/html/
# rm -rf owncloud/
# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/

Step-7 :

Reboot the system.

# reboot

Step-8 :

Now Open Your Browser and type following Url and configure the OwnCloud.

http://<ip of your server>

Note – Replace <ip of your server> by your own server IP.

Step-9 :

Your OwnCloud Server is ready.

Step-10 :

Type http://ip-of-your-server and enjoy OwnCloud.