How to setup ownCloud 7 on Raspberry Pi

This is the second installment of the guide to install ownCloud on Raspberry Pi. Our earlier guide was for ownCloud 5.0.20 (Enterprise Edition) and can be found here.

There has been certain changes with the latest version of ownCloud 7, and this guide should be able to help you to sail through smooth. Without much ado about what is ownCloud (which you already know) let's dive deep into tech details.

Following software / packages we will be using for this setup, ideal for a personal cloud on Raspberry Pi:

• ownCloud 7
• Nginx
• OpenSSL
• php 5
• Raspbian Wheezy

1. Tuning up the Raspberry Pi

Following changes needs to be made under Raspberry Pi configuration

sudo raspi-config

a. Expand the root filesystem to have enough space for the cloud

    Select "Expand Filesystem"

b. Change locale to en_US.UTF8

    Select "Internationalisation  Options"

c. Memory split, allocate 16M to video graphics (if you are not using X-server)

    Select "Advanced Options" --> "Memory Split"

d. Overclock to Modest or Medium (Optional Step)

    Select "Overclock" (You might have to reboot if asked)

2. Updating the package lists on Raspberry Pi

  sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get upgrade

3. Creating users (Raspbian might already have is user & group)

    sudo groupadd www-data

    sudo usermod -a -G www-data www-data

4. Installing the packages

    sudo apt-get install nginx openssl ssl-cert php5-cli php5-sqlite php5-gd php5-common php5-cgi sqlite3 php-pear php-apc curl libapr1 libtool curl libcurl4-openssl-dev php-xml-parser php5 php5-dev php5-gd php5-fpm memcached php5-memcache varnish


5. Make sure php5-curl is not installed
    sudo apt-get --purge remove php5-curl

6. Creating your SSL certificates for 2 years

    sudo openssl req $@ -new -x509 -days 730 -nodes -out /etc/nginx/cert.pem -keyout /etc/nginx/cert.key

    sudo chmod 600 /etc/nginx/cert.pem
    sudo chmod 600 /etc/nginx/cert.key

7. Configuring Ngnix web server

    sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

    Copy and replace the entire content below:

    Note: You'll have to replace technet.example.com with the local IP of your Raspberry Pi or the domain name (make sure it matches with the details you have provided to create the certificate, else ownCloud won't work). If you have planned instead to use any Dynamic DNS domain, then use your  domain name instead of the local IP address. You can follow our guide for setting up a Dynamic DNS domain.

8. Configuring max upload limit in php

    sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

    Tip: Use ctrl+w to search below lines and update:

    upload_max_filesize = 1000M

    post_max_size = 1000M

9. Configuring PHP 

    sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
    Change the following line from:
    listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
    to 
    listen = 127.0.0.1:9000

    sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile
    Change the following line from:
    CONF_SWAPSIZE=100
    to 
    CONF_SWAPSIZE=512

10. Restart web server and Php

    sudo /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart

    sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

11. Install ownCloud (version 7.0.1 used here)

    sudo mkdir -p /var/www/owncloud

    sudo wget https://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-7.0.1.tar.bz2

    sudo tar xvf owncloud-7.0.1.tar.bz2

    sudo mv owncloud/ /var/www/

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

    rm -rf owncloud owncloud-7.0.1.tar.bz2

12. Setup admin account
     While setting up the admin account you should provide the path to your data folder. You can ideally set this to your NAS drive or external drive which you may have mounted. Owncloud will complain and not proceed with admin account if the data directory path is not readable & writable by the user www-data. Also it should not be readable by "others". You can refer to our guide here for setting up appropriate permission before proceeding to create the admin account.
     Now in the browser, login to the ip address of Raspberry Pi or if you have configured your domain name then use that and set up the admin account.
    https://yourdomain.com    or    https://192.168.XXX.XX


That's all... Celebrate the fun... Fly high on clouds... and if you liked this guide, got benefited or feel worth reading kindly do share with your network, and share your comments.