owncloud

It is possible to implement Owncloud at OMV. There are some issues but you can overpass them and finally install it succesfully. First of all you need Website plugin and Mysql also. If you search the old forum you can find the how to install it and overpass the problems. I have install it (following these info) and I will try to create a How to with all the required configurations you need.

Johny,

Looking forward to the walkthrough - Tried to install tonight, however coming up with all sorts of problems (a classic example is that the install directory as mentioned on the Oc support forum doesnt even exist!)...

Cheers
Paul

Looking forward for the walkthrough too!

tried to install owncloud myself but went through some troubles with the directories as the shared path is something like /media/3ebhjdgskdstdfuegezhfsjhdflseuehlfjsdfhkshdfjhsdf/MY_SHARED_FOLDER and not directly /MY_SHARED_FOLDER which would be much nicer by the way!

I will try to make one step by step guide. Sorry for being late but I had some issues that could not wait
Once again I am not Linux/Unix expert. I am not 100% sure that these steps will work at your system and everything I write I have tested at my system (i386) and found it at the old forum and the OC forum.
Be patient for a little while

Again I am not an Linux/Unix expert, I have just create a step by step guide to the steps I made in order to make everything work (OMV and Owncloud), As you will see below for some steps I am not 100% sure. Many steps comes from the old forum and other people wrote these first. As advise, first try it at a VirtualBox setup to be sure and then at your server. I am not responsible if this create any issue at your server. I hope someone who knows more than me corrects any mistakes I made.

OK..lets start. All packages version may change so keep that in mind in order to change the code...

From a brand new installation first of all we have to install the omvpluginorg from

http://packages.omv-plugins.org/pool/main/o/openmediavault-omvpluginsorg/openmediavault-omvpluginsorg_0.3.2~3.gbpa0b737_all.deb

. Upload it to the server by the OMV GUI, at System / Plugins. Install it. Refresh OMV page nad press Check in order to refresh the plugins list.
Chooce openmediavault-website 0.3.4, install it
Choose openmediavault-mysql 0.3.4.2, install it
Refresh the OMV page and choose the MySQL plugin in order to set a root password. (I am not 100% sure if this is mandatory, but just to be sure)
At NEW PASSWORD set your password and CONFIRM IT, press OK.

Go to Share Folders, press ADD and put the following
Name : owncloud
Volume: choose your disk
Path:owncloud

SSH to your server or by keyboard

apt-get install php5-gd

press Y when asks.

wget http://owncloud.org/release/owncloud-4.0.6.tar.bz2

then

tar -xjf owncloud-4.0.6.tar.bz2

(#WHEN I TRIED THE LAST TIME THIS COMMAND FAILED, I DO NOT KNOW WHY, AND I HAD TO UNTAR IT BY WINSCP AND WINRAR)

Log in through WINSCP. Copy all the files and folders coming from this tar.bz2 file and paste them inside the owncloud folder we created before, in my installation it was

/media/SOMETHING STRANGE/owncloud

, then

chown -R www-data:www-data /media/SOMETHING STRANGE/owncloud

Go back to the OMV GUI, at Users, click Add, name ocuser, group adm and users (I am not 100% sure if this is correct but it works)

Go at the Website plugin, tick ENABLE, go to Document Root and choose owncloud [on/dev/sdb1] (THIS MAY BE DIFFERENT)
Virtual host type:Port Based
Virtual Host Port:8181
Go to the PHP section and Tick Allow PHP Script
User: ocuser
Go to the Options section, tick Indexes
Go to Allow Override and tick next to all
Click OK (I got a error message but it says it is a communication failure so ignore it)

Go to the Shared folders again, choose owncloud and press ACL
Change the permissions as follows
owncloud-> ocuser READ/WRITE and at the extra options Others Read/Write
expand owncloud
apps->ocuser READ/WRITE
config->ocuser READ/WRITE

edit the file

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/zzz-omv-website-vhost

Mine looks like this

<VirtualHost *:8181>
	UseCanonicalName Off
	DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.cgi index.pl
	ServerSignature Off

	DocumentRoot /media/146c7271-9441-48a5-8e6e-482f18b104d6/owncloud
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>


    	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/omv-website-vhost_error.log
    	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/omv-website-vhost_access.log combined

	SuexecUserGroup ocuser users
 	<FilesMatch \.php$>
  		FcgidWrapper /var/www/omv-website-vhost/php-fcgi .php
  		Options +ExecCGI
  		SetHandler fcgid-script
 	</FilesMatch>

	<Directory /media/146c7271-9441-48a5-8e6e-482f18b104d6/owncloud/>
  		AllowOverride All
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
 	</Directory>
 
</VirtualHost>

THE DIRECTORIES WILL NEED CHANGE SINCE IT IS TAKEN FROM MY SETUP, SO CHANGE IT. ALL THE OTHERS NEED TO BE LIKE THIS IN ORDER TO MAKE THE OWNCLOUD GUI WORK TOGETHER WITH THE WEBDAV FEATURE {THIS TOOK ME 2 WEEKS TO MAKE IT WORK, SINCE THE ERROR WAS A MISSING "+" AT Options +ExecCGI :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: }
Go back to SSH or keyboard of the server

a2enmod rewrite

and

a2enmod headers

, then restart the apache server by

service apache2 restart

Now you can log in at the Owncloud Webgui by

http://SERVERIP:8181

we will see the setup page, enter USER, PASSWORD , at MySQL DB use USER:root, Pass:the password you set before at the MySQL plugin, BD name : owncloud, localhost and then press Complete

At this step you will not be able to login at the OMV webgui page, you will get an error. Use WinSCP. locate php.ini in the

/var/www/omv-website-vhost/

find the

session.save_path

, remove the

;

in front and edit as

session.save_path=("/tmp")

(NOT 100% SURE)

Then find the php.ini in

/var/www/openmediavault/cgi/

find the

session.name

and change it to something (?), mine is session.name=("OMVSESSION") (NOT 100% SURE)

Now you can log in to the OMV Gui again

Finally to get Owncloug to work propertly edit the following

/var/www/omv-website-vhost/php.ini

and add

max_execution_time=3600
max_input_time=3600
memory_limit=512M
post_max_size=2000M
upload_max_filesize=2000M
max_file_uploads=10

at the end.
Also edit

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

and add

<ifmodule mod_fcgid.c>
MaxRequestLen 20000000000
</ifmodule>

With these changes, and after a restart you will be able to upload files up to 2GB size each.

I hope these helps

Thanks for the info, johny_sketo. To help clarify for others (and myself), here's some filled in holes and questions. I've had OMV installed for about 2 weeks, so I might ask some questions along the way. If you or somebody else could clarify, I would appreciate getting some answers to my questions.

Zitat

(#WHEN I TRIED THE LAST TIME THIS COMMAND FAILED, I DO NOT KNOW WHY, AND I HAD TO UNTAR IT BY WINSCP AND WINRAR)

What is WINSCP?

Zitat

/media/SOMETHING STRANGE/owncloud

I think "SOMETHING STRANGE" is referred to as the UUID? Seems like each physical drive gets something akin to a Serial Number to identify it. The number is so long it makes things seem impractical to use a command line to reference it.

Zitat

Go back to the OMV GUI, at Users, click Add, name ocuser, group adm and users (I am not 100% sure if this is correct but it works)

Here, it seems like you're creating a User named "ocuser", adding them to the "adm" and "users" groups. If your account is a member of either group, you can see the "owncloud" share. So if somebody wanted any user to be able to access /owncloud, they could just give permission to the "users" group?

Zitat

Change the permissions as follows
owncloud-> ocuser READ/WRITE and at the extra options Others Read/Write
expand owncloud
apps->ocuser READ/WRITE
config->ocuser READ/WRITE

I think all of this gives anybody on your network access to "/owncloud". If this is the case, you wouldn't need to make a user?

Good job tracking down all these necessary changes. It's well above my head at this point.

Zitat von "stonerhawk"

After launching owncloud i didn't notice any setup wizard.
Where i can find and manage owncloud database?

Dear stonerhawk,

The first time you open the OC webgui you should see the login page, but with some differences. The first time it lets you create a user and setup the DB part. In our case and since we use MySQL you should see the fields I wrote. If you have others DBs it will let you choose which one you wish to use. Also, have in mind that all these appear after you choose Allow PHP Script at the Website plugin.

Zitat von "trza"

What is WINSCP?

WinSCP is a windows program that uses SSH protocol to transfer files, at least that is the reason I use it for. It looks very much like Windows Explorer and it is very easy to use.

Zitat von "trza"

I think "SOMETHING STRANGE" is referred to as the UUID? Seems like each physical drive gets something akin to a Serial Number to identify it. The number is so long it makes things seem impractical to use a command line to reference it.

Yes, I refer to the UUID. I know it is a little bit difficult but we are using it for only a few times and you can copy/paste the whole SN.

Zitat von "trza"

Here, it seems like you're creating a User named "ocuser", adding them to the "adm" and "users" groups. If your account is a member of either group, you can see the "owncloud" share. So if somebody wanted any user to be able to access /owncloud, they could just give permission to the "users" group?

I create a new user because I cannot add my account, or anybody already configured at OMV, at the Allow PHP Script part of Website plugin. I am sure that the group part may be wrong but as I said I am not expert and I wrote just what made my system work (OMV, OC with Webdav)

Zitat von "trza"

I think all of this gives anybody on your network access to "/owncloud". If this is the case, you wouldn't need to make a user?

Again, the new user is necessary. The permissions may be wrong, please somebody corrects them in order to have maximum security

Hey,

thanks for the step by step instruction.

my owncloud is running now, but i have one question with the files. How can i change the file directory? I will show the files from my root share like the UUID.

Thanks

Zitat von "iKai"

How can i change the file directory? I will show the files from my root share like the UUID.

To be honest I do not know how. I know that it uses the data folder inside the owncloud folder to built the data/users structure, but I cannot find anywhere an option to change this folder.

Zitat von "stonerhawk"

I think that tou can make a symlink to prefered folder

How can i make a symlink to the folders?

Maybe someone down the road could make a plugin to set this up?

Just got my omv setup and am a little nervous to mess with installing this and causing issue's.

Hey there,

The idea with the symlink was very good! now i have access to my directories!

Zitat von "stonerhawk"

Is there a chance to use owncloud without website plugin?
I would like to host another site with this plugin.

There is an How-To here: http://www.chrisz.de/?p=1075 it's in german and I didn't test it myself. It's basically an installation within apache2 in omv on port 8080

so you don't need the website plugin... but i think you will still need the mysql plugin - but as i said. didn't test that myself yet.

Zitat von "HackitZ"

Maybe someone down the road could make a plugin to set this up?

Just got my omv setup and am a little nervous to mess with installing this and causing issue's.

I tried to follow along with the info here, and for some reason it didn't work. Rather than fighting it, I downloaded the Turnkey Linux version of OpenCloud and set it up in Virtualbox. It took longer to download the VM than to set it up the rest of the way. Chances are slim that you'll see any problems with this route, so long as your hardware supports virtualization.