Owncloud is a PHP application that can enable you to launch your custom Dropbox like installation. It supports plugin for integration and extension as well as mobile application and a desktop synchronisation client for keeping your files in sync between smartphone, web and laptop.

This tutorial will guide you to a basic installation of Owncloud on a linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS intance on exoscale cloud.

First steps

launch an instance if you do not have one already. This instance should belong to a security group which has port 22 and 80 at minimum opened. Port 443 should also be opened inbound for encryption support.

Add Owncloud repository

update your repository lists:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/ownCloud:/community/xUbuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"

and trust the repository key for this installation and future ones:

wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:community/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key

Update your package cache:

sudo apt-get update

your are now ready to install the application

Installation

sudo apt-get install owncloud php5-sqlite
sudo php5enmod mcrypt

then create an apache configuraiton file

sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/owncloud.conf

and copy the following base configuration

alias   /owncloud       /var/www/owncloud
<Directory "/var/www/owncloud">
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Finally restart apache2

service apache2 restart

Finalize the configuration online

connect with your browser on http:///owncloud

you will be able to create the adminstrator credentials and finish the configuration.