Introduction of owncloud, a popular self-hosted file sync and share server.

1.
Introduction of OwnCloud
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2. Introduction
• ownCloud is an open source file synchronization and
share software, providing both community & enterprise
version.
https://owncloud.org/

3. Source Code
• OwnCloud is open source under AGPL-licensed
OwnCloud Project
Core
Client
andorid
ios
andorid-library
ios-library
pyocclient
others
owncloud Server Core
owncloud desktop syncing client
owncloud Android App
owncloud ios App
owncloud Android library
owncloud ios library
owncloud python library
other owncloud plug-in
https://github.com/owncloud

4. Installation
• OwnCloud supports Linux (like) operating systems
• Available via packages, sources, virtual images or a one
file php installer and .tar archive
Install on Ubuntu 14.04
sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/ownCloud:/
community/xUbuntu_14.04/ /’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list”
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install owncloud
The install process will pause and ask you
to input the password of root user for
MySQL database.

5. Initial Configuration
• Initial configuration necessary
on first use
• Open http://localhost/owncloud
or http://ipaddress/owncloud via
web browser
- Administrator name & password
- Directory to place the data
- Backend database system type
- Database user name, password,
database name, database server host

6. File manage interface
Directory and file list
Favorite directory and file list
Directory and file list shared with you
Directory and file list shared with others
Directory and file list shared by link

7. Folder & file management
You can create folder and text file, or
upload a file to OwnCloud server
You can download, rename, share, remove file and
browse all the versions
You can rename, share, remove folder and
download folder as a .zip file

8. Share folder & file
You can share folder and
file with other owncloud
users or group.
You can also choose if
the shared foloder and
file can be edited or
shared again.
You can also share folder and file
by an URL link.
You can set password protect and
expire date for the share link.

9. Personal info interface
Maintain sync devices
Maintain password, email, profile pic, etc
Maintain email notification rules
HTML share code and SSL
root certificates import

10. Manage user and group
Three roles available: ordinary user,
group admin and system admin.
You can create/remove group, add/
remove user to/from a group.
You can also modify username,
password and storage quota.

11. Install app on OwnCloud
OwnCloud is an open platform and provides its API,
so developers can implement different apps based
on it.
You can browse all the supported
apps on OwnCloud and chose to
enable.

12. Add external storage
Official External Storage App
make it possible to add external
storage such as AWS S3,
Dropbox, OpenStack Swift, etc.
You can add AWS S3 by providing access key, access secret key and
bucket name.

13. Mount to local server
• ownCloud supports the WedDAV protocol, so you can
mount the storage of ownCloud to a local server by using
davfs2 driver.
Mount on Ubuntu 14.04
sudo apt-get install davfs2
sudo echo “/home/felix/Owncloud admin admin123” >> /etc/davfs2/secrets
sudo echo “http://localhost:8090/owncloud/remote.php/webdav /home/felix/
Owncloud davfs uid=felix,gid=felix 0 0” >> /etc/fstab
sudo mount /home/felix/Owncloud/
df -h | grep owncloud
http://localhost:8090/owncloud/remote.php/webdav 5.0G 4.9M 5.0G 1% /home/
felix/Owncloud
The above commands will mount the storage of admin user on
ownCloud to /home/felix/Owncloud on local server and grant the read
& write rights to local system user felix.

14. Access OwnCloud by API
• For now, ownCloud supplies android, ios and python
library to access ownCloud server.
Access ownCloud by python client
sudo pip install pyocclient
Code example for connecting owncloud server and uploading a file:
import owncloud
oc = owncloud.Client(‘http://localhost:8090/owncloud’)
oc.login(‘admin’, ‘admin123’)
oc.mkdir(‘Test’)
oc.put_file(‘Test/test.txt’, ‘localtest.txt’)
print oc.get_file_contents(‘Test/test.txt’)
oc.logout()
python demo.py
Hello, owncloud server!
Local test file has been uploaded
to owncloud server.

15. Build Android App
• Both android and ios app of OwnCloud are open source,
so you can build your app version.
Get the source code of android app and library
git clone https://github.com/owncloud/android.git
cd android/owncloud-android-library
git clone https://github.com/owncloud/android-library.git
cd android-library
mv * ../
Import & build with Android Studio