Install OwnCloud4 on Debian12

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sudo apt install lsb-release ca-certificates curl -y

GPG key and repo for php 7.4

sudo curl -sSLo /usr/share/keyrings/deb.sury.org-php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/deb.sury.org-php.gpg] https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list'

Update the system with the new repository in place

sudo apt update

Install the dependencies for OwnCloud (LAMP ect) Certbot, or LetsEncrypt is being installed as well, if you are using this installation in a public domain

sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server imagemagick certbot python3-certbot-apache smbclient redis-server unzip rsync libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4 php7.4-intl php7.4-mysql php7.4-mbstring php7.4-imagick php7.4-igbinary php7.4-gmp php7.4-bcmath php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-zip php7.4-imap php7.4-ldap php7.4-bz2 php7.4-ssh2 php7.4-common php7.4-json php7.4-xml php7.4-dev php7.4-apcu php7.4-redis libsmbclient-dev php-pear php-phpseclib

Enable apache2 and then verify it’s status

sudo systemctl is-enabled apache2

sudo systemctl status apache2

Enable MariaDB and verify status

sudo systemctl is-enabled mariadb

sudo systemctl status mariadb

Enable Redis and verify status

sudo systemctl is-enabled redis

sudo systemctl status redis

Configure default php version

sudo update-alternatives --config php

Configure php OwnCloud dependencies

sudo update-alternatives --set phar /usr/bin/phar7.4

sudo update-alternatives --set phar.phar /usr/bin/phar.phar7.4

sudo update-alternatives --set phpize /usr/bin/phpize7.4

sudo update-alternatives --set php-config /usr/bin/php-config7.4

Upgrade Pear to OwnCloud4 requirements

sudo mkdir -p /tmp/pear/cache

sudo pear upgrade --force --alldeps http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.10.13

sudo pear clear-cache

sudo pear update-channels

sudo pear upgrade --force

sudo pear upgrade-all

Verify Pear version

pear version

Configure MariaDB

sudo mariadb-secure-installation

Log into MariaDB

sudo mariadb -u root -p

Create the OwnCloud database:

This is where many go wrong, we do not use ‘password’ we replace password, with our own password.

CREATE DATABASE owncloud;

We just created a database with the name owncloud

CREATE USER IF NOT EXISTS 'owncloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

We just created a database user called owncloud

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON owncloud.* TO 'owncloud'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

We just allowed user owncloud, full privileges on database owncloud

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Now verify what we have just done:

SHOW GRANTS FOR 'owncloud'@'localhost';

You can see below I named this database ‘oc’ and the ‘oc’ user has privileges on database ‘owncloud’

quit;

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wget the OwnCloud source

cd /var/www

wget https://download.owncloud.com/server/stable/owncloud-complete-latest.tar.bz2

Grab sha256 to verify the download

wget https://download.owncloud.com/server/stable/owncloud-complete-latest.tar.bz2.sha256

BEFORE installing, verify if the download of OwnCloud matches what the OwnCloud team wanted you to have, this is important always.

sudo sha256sum -c owncloud-complete-latest.tar.bz2.sha256 < owncloud-complete-latest.tar.bz2

Out put should say ‘OK’ if everything matches.

Change ownership of the directory to www-data user.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/owncloud

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Configure Vhost for OwnCloud

This will open a new file in 'sites-available and name this file ‘owncloud.conf’

Change the ServerName and ServerAlias, as well as log file names, to whatever your domain is. There are many ways to do this keep in mind.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName oc
  ServerAlias www.oc

  DocumentRoot /var/www/owncloud
  
  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/oc.io-error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/oc.io-access.log combined

  Alias /owncloud "/var/www/owncloud/"

  <Directory /var/www/owncloud/>
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    AllowOverride All

    <IfModule mod_dav.c>
    Dav off
    </IfModule>

    SetEnv HOME /var/www/owncloud
    SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/owncloud

  </Directory>
 
</VirtualHost>

Enable and verify the owncloud vhost

sudo a2ensite owncloud.conf

sudo apachectl configtest

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Now install OwnCloud

Change the database name, user, and password to whatever you named the OwnCloud database earlier;

Change the ‘admin user’ and ‘admin pass’ to whatever you want the new OwnCloud admin account to be.

sudo -u www-data /var/www/owncloud/occ maintenance:install \
   --database "mysql" \
   --database-name "owncloud" \
   --database-user "owncloud"\
   --database-pass "password" \
   --admin-user "admin" \
   --admin-pass "your new owncloud admin password"

Edit the OwnCloud config file to add the domain you used earlier in the Apache2 vhost file:

sudo nano /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php

'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => 'localhost',
    1 => 'whatever your domain is goes here',
  ),

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Personally I restart the server at this point, which will restart all services. Then visit the domain / IP of your settings and you should see the OwnCloud login page. Use the credentials you setup for the admin user.

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System cron setting:

sudo crontab -u www-data -e

*/15  *  *  *  * /usr/bin/php -f /var/www/owncloud/occ system:cron

Memcache with Redis we installed earlier:

sudo nano /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php

    'filelocking.enabled' => true,
    'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu',
    'memcache.locking' => '\OC\Memcache\Redis',
    'redis' => [
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'port' => 6379,
    ],

Go restart the server again and enjoy!