ownCloud in a box
ownCloud in a box packages ownCloud as an appliance, so you can easily run it in a virtual environment, as a live system or install it on a disk.
Run the appliance, go to http://[yourservername]/owncloud and login as admin with the password owncloud42. Change the password in the admin interface and use the URL, which is shown there to access ownCloud via WebDAV.
Also remember to change the root password of the system after the appliance has booted.
Download
Media
USB & disk image
This is an image of your disk, ready to be written to either a USB drive or your hard disk. When written, it will erase all data on a disk. During the first boot, your partition will bee automatically resized to fill available space.
ISO image
Burn this ISO file to a DVD (or CD, if the space allows), and you'll be able to boot directly from the disc.
Preload ISO
A bootable ISO containing the appliance disk image. Boots into a simple graphical environment and prompts for confirmation before writing the image onto the hard drive. Useful for performing automated system installs/preloads.
Warning: Overwrites all data on the target hard drive.
Virtual
VMware / VirtualBox / KVM image
Whether you use VMware, VirtualBox, or KVM, this vmdk is a ready-to-use virtual appliance.
Cloud
Amazon EC2 image
Release notes
Updated to ownCloud 3.0.3.
From the ownCloud release notes:
Release “2012.0.3”
April 27. 2012
- Security: Several CSRF fixes
- Security: .htaccess uploading blacklist
- Backport link in the Help center to the online documentatio
- Backport link in the Help center to the “Big Files” howto
- Check if JSon module is installed
- Check if GD module is installed
Download: http://owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-3.0.3.tar.bz2
MD5: http://owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-3.0.3.tar.bz2.md5
Technical Details
Appliance configuration
Accounts
| User | Password |
|---|---|
| root | linux |
| tux | linux |
Basic settings
| Keyboard: | english-us |
|---|---|
| Time zone: | Europe/Berlin |
| Language: | en_US.UTF-8 |
| Network: | manual |
| Firewall: | enabled |
Software
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Security summary
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Includes the following unofficial sources:
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No custom software packages were uploaded.
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Overlay files were uploaded, but none are executable.
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No custom scripts were enabled.
Version 3.0.8
Testdrive
Older releases
- Version 3.0.6 – 34 days old
- Version 3.0.5 – 43 days old
- Version 3.0.2 – 77 days old
- Version 3.0.1 – 93 days old
- Version 3.0.0 – 107 days old
- Version 2.0.11 – 174 days old
- Version 2.0.10 – 218 days old
- Version 2.0.9 – 232 days old
- Version 1.2.1 – 311 days old
- Version 1.2.0 – 387 days old
- Version 1.1.5 – 398 days old
- Version 1.1.4 – 427 days old
- Version 1.1.2 – 443 days old
- Version 1.1.1 – 510 days old
- Version 1.0.4 – 679 days old
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Everyone's comments
There has got to me more to getting this to work then simply booting a usb and type http://localhost/owncloud. I stumbled across owncloud and wanted to give it a test. I have downloaded both the Virt (running on openbox) and the bootable usb. Each boots to the linux shell. Now what? I can’t just simply type http://localhost/owncloud. it doesn’t open anything. “page cannot be displayed” As I said I am new so I just must be missing something, somethings?? Someone Please educate me.
I have made good progress. Changed network setting from NAT to Bridged and I can now access ownCloud. I have a few ongoing issues that I have not resolved. Some I have seen here but no known resolution. anyway.
1. Can’t add new user. I see a couple of people have mentioned it but I don’t see how they have solved it.
2. I have the “The System time between the local…..” same as Tim Miller.
3. I would like to simple use my existing “photo”, “music” folder to share in ownCloud but can’t seem to do that. Or, Where does the VM version store the files it is sharing? On the virtual disk?
4. Last, I can’t goo to the web interface and add any file, no matter what size file it tell me the fine size is too big.
I have downloaded and install the virtual iso and it is working.
Able to login into the web interface add a user etc.
But after I install the client I am getting the “The system time between the local machine and the server differs too much”.
So I am in the central time zone, install the America/Chicago zone, I check the linux server by doing a date and it is correct (Mon May 7 16:18:29 CDT 2012) and the windows 7 (tested on a xp also) computer same date and time with a time zone (UTC-0600) Central Time.
What am I missing? or steps to correct the issues.
By they way thanks for making a install ISO it is so handy and makes it easier for us that are not experts in linux easier. And gets our feet wet in the linux world and explorer more with linux.
TM
Note: I just downloaded the latest last week 3.0.6.
Hi Tim did you manage to solve the problem, I’m using the newst 3.0.8 version and windows client 1.0.1 and have the same problem as you :(
No I haven’t figured this out yet.
Any ideas would be great.
In the settings (The little gear icon) you’ll find an item called APPS. If you are having the problem with invisible users, look under APPS to see if LDAP is enabled. If it is, disable it.
? assuming that you posted on the wrong one cause no talk about users issue.
Hi, I just install 3.0.6, and it is working OK, but I can add users and it is working OK, unfortunately I cannot see users on the list…Why!
Same problem here, using VirtualBox with 3.0.6 virtual image.
PDF Viewer doesn’t work…seems to be a openSUSE 12.1 issue
Hi Cornelius,
I configured the ldap settings and when I login with a ldap user I get:
call to undefined function ldap_connect()
in /etc/apache2/error_log.
Is this a known issue?
Thx
There was a zypper php5-ldap missing …
Thanks for the report. I’ll add the package and release a new version.
Cannot seem to add users to the web console? Any suggestions?
I’m having the same problem. I tried in both Chrome and Firefox. I have owncloud installed on my home server on top of FreeBSD and I have a problem with the accounts page there too. At least on my server I can add users, I just can’t remove them from from any groups once I’ve added them to a group. It’s certainly an issue when it’s the admin group. Thankfully no one other than me even uses my ownCloud instance yet. I really want to get ownCloud and Mirall working so that I can drop Dropbox. I hate giving my data to a third party.
I’ve uploaded this straight to EC2, thanks for making an easy to use package. I’ve also been able to SSH in as “tux” but not as “root”, keeps saying wrong password. Am I missing something? Thanks!
I should also add that I’ve tried logging in as “tux” and then elevating via “su -” and it’s still wrong password. Thanks.
Figured it out, had to use the private key. :)
Why are you using 11.4 repos when your appliance is based on 12.1?
I tried to get this running in EC2, but I couldn’t connect to vm (no ssh, no http). I’m gonna investigate this yet. :)
Got this solved. One need to open the ports for ssh (and http) manually.
Next problem: How do I get the data saved permanently? EC2 service only supports temporary data storage which will be cleared after reboot. Any suggestions?
What exactly do you mean by opening the ports for ssh and http? Where did you have to open these ports?
The storage of the EC2 instances should be permanent. Data should persist between reboots. If you terminate an instance it will be erased, though.
The Live CD/DVD did not work.
After booting from CD it cannot find CD or DVD (!)
This works for me. I can run ownCloud from a live CD just fine. Maybe there is a problem with the physical medium.
Hallo, why is access to OwnCloud not possible via https by default?
Or am I wrong here? – then say me please how to get it.
Reiner Gehring
https needs setup of a certificate. This can’t be done in the prebuilt appliance, but needs to be done after installation. Would be great to have some instructions how to do it, though. Maybe there is already some help out there we could at least link to.
hello, i can log in to the owncloud webpage but i can ot log in in tto the opensuse machine… please help
You can ssh to the machine as root or as regular user tux, password is “linux” (see “accounts” section on this page). Obviously you should change the passwords when setting up your ownCloud appliance.
Make it better.
What? I am not quite a nooby, but I must be missing something here. How do I install the Hard Disk version (or any version for that matter)? The file is a compressed file and once you decompress it, you have a file with a .RAW file extension. What do I do with it? I am trying to install OwnCloud In a Box onto a computer that is already running Linux (Crunchbang Linux") but I don’t see how to do this. I don’t care about keeping the current Linux on the computer. I just want the OwnCloud server on my computer. Can someone give me plain, detailed instructions? Thanks a lot.
See the Disk Image Howtos for instructions how to install the image to a file.
What is the username/password for ownCloud’s web interface? How do I configure new users?
Sorry, was blind for a minute…
>> “Run the appliance, go to http://[yourservername]/owncloud and login as admin with the password owncloud42. Change the password in the admin interface and use the URL, which is shown there to access ownCloud via WebDAV.” <<
Hello, I just try to run as XEN guest, but when going create this instance it returns
Error: (1, ‘Internal error’, ‘xc_dom_do_gunzip: inflate failed (rc=-3)\n’)
It was working smoothly before 12.1 upgrade.
Any ideas?
Is it relatively easy to extend the ownCloud to have additional nodes. Are their instructions for that anywhere?
Hi,
I tried to set as the owncloud2 data folder of a folder mounted with s3fs (for amazon s3) ownCloud but fails. OwnCloud can ’write to a partition mounted with s3fs (s3 bucket)?
Sorry for bad English !
this is most likely a permissions issue, you have to make sure that the webserver user has r/wr access to the s3 bucket you are mounting.
Also, as a side-note/warning, mounting s3 buckets isn’t very stable and it often unmounts itself due to connection / timeout issues.
Hope this helps
Hmm, this is hard to use. Services fail to start at startup because of missing ip, ifconfig does not store ip adress permanent so a restart of the box forgets the ip I have set.
So, I need to edit ifcg-eth0, but I get stuck in VI-editor because I cant change keyboard settings to Swedish ( set Swedish in startup-screen, but thats ignored). Changing keyboard settings is not easy because I have wrong keyboard to even put basic commands. Yast is not there, is that to easy?
Anyway, last resort, download webmin then so I might get some sort of gui to the box running, but wget is not here either, and not lynx either from what I can tell. Funny, all I need to do in order to get stuff work is set an IP address and get proper language on keyboard… Im not a noob and not an expert either, baffled about me not getting this to work, will try some more….
The system is meant as a minimal system, that’s why it doesn’t include much tools. If you need more or you just want to change the network settings, you can simply clone the appliance, and modify it to fit your needs.
Yes, I do understand that. So far I have been doing;
ifconfig eth0 192.168.250.217 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.250.255
Then added gateway;
route add default gw 192.168.250.254 eth0
Then I managed to “vi /etc/resolv.conf” and add “nameserver 192.168.250.129”
So, finally, I can surf to the box and connect ownCloud! If I restart the box however, the settings are gone. So, Now I am trying hard to get webmin on the box in order to getting it easily managed. I have at last managed to download the RPM;
curl -L -O http://prdownloads.sourcforge.com/webadmin/webmin-1.570-1.src.rpm
And when I try to install, it just does not, without any comments.
rpm -Uvh —nosignature webmin-1.570-1.src.rpm
I know, this is WAY of topic, but I just trying to get this minimal installation going… Is this box not supposed to install rpm:s? I am obviously missing something…
I am an idiot, ok, I know…
should have been downloading webmin-1.570-1.noarch.rpm
You don’t have to do the network configuration manually. You can create your own appliance based on my one (just click the “clone appliance…” link at the top right of this page, and do the network configuration with the Studio UI. Then it will be persistent and you don’t need to add any other packages (of course you can still add some management tools like webmin or YaST, if you like)
Wow, I did not know about that. I am new on susegallery – what a feature to clone your machine and add stuff to it – amazing! Thanks for your help!
I just got it installed under VMWare, was really easy!
One question though, I saw that the LDAP plugin was installed and enabled but I cannot find where to do the LDAP settings, there doesn’t seem to be a menuoption for it.
Good question. I haven’t used the LDAP plugin myself. Maybe you can find an answer by checking out the ownCloud documentation.
Hi, I installed it in a VirtualBox VM.
How do I run owncloud first time wizard ? what is owncloud default username and password ?
How can I configure it ?
Thanks.
ownCloud is already configured, so you don’t need to run the wizard. The default username and password is in the description on the SUSE Gallery page.
Hi,
Thanks for the answer.
I used the username and password from the description on the SUSE Gallery page but I still can’t login to ownCloud web interface (have no problem login to the machine).
How do I add users ?
OK, Found it.
How did you do it??
Nevermind…
I already have a server running(lamp). how would i install on that?
Just follow the instructions on the owncloud web site. It’s pretty easy.
Without yast, it really makes network config interesting. Sure, ifconfig works but the average noob will never figure that out. This should really ship as DHCP enabled, and have some instructions on how to change it. Having a default static IP will almost never work properly.
You are right. I’ll rebuild it with DHCP configuration.
What is the linux-kzmu?
Is there an installer for this program?
In the download section of this page there are link with instructions how to install this system for the various different types of images.
Seems to be working! How to enable SSL on the appliance?
It’s standard apache, so adding a certificate and doing the standard configuration should do the trick.
What is the server name after boot-up ? <> http://[yourservername]/owncloud
I used the vmware image – this failed <> httpd2-prefork , linux-xxvt (no idea or erros posted)
may try again, but must be more user notes, ie step by step
good luck !
I was having the same problem figuring out what to use for server name.
I installed ownCloud in a Virtualbox machine.
Logon the console terminal with the userid = tux and password = linux.
Enter /sbin/ifconfig at the command prompt
Write down the eth0 inet addr: such as 192.168.1.100
Go to http://192.168.1.100/owncloud in your web browser and the ownCloud
web interface should appear. Don’t forgot to use the IP address from the ifconfig
output.
Logon the web interface as admin with the password owncloud42 as documented
at the beginning of this web page.
Hope this help someone.
@Cornelius Schmacher
Some of the other systems with web interfaces display a line showing correct command
to logon with the current IP address. I believe FreeNAS and OpenMediaVault both
display it.
good idea, good os
You need to add zypper or yast to the image so that people can update it
Good point. I’ll add zypper.
Are you planning to add also S3-type functionality? I need that to test something, but perhaps I must study how to install it myself. I must say the instructions seems a little complicated (Eucalyptus).
You can upload the image to S3, if you download the Amazon EC2 image, and upload it yourself.
just to ask, this is a Cloud OS?
Great work. I can translate to Brazilian Portuguese if you want.
it is a command line interface, dont like them.
This is a server appliance, so the UI for the user is a web interface. Managing the system itself is command line of course, but that’s how it usually is for server systems, and there shouldn’t be much to do for this appliance on the command line, as it’s supposed to more or less work out of the box.
hey guy’s do you think you could vist my new os linux leopard
I TURNED IT INTO NANOSOFT OPENWINDOWS
when i used it it looked more like a terminal than a gui
dont like it very much
What is it you don’t like? Suggestions how to improve it are welcome.
I AM VERY SORRY TO INSULT YOUR OS I WASNT USED TO COMMAND LINE YET
I THOUGHT IT WAS A GLITCH
what’s the user and pass to access to the appliance console? It’s not admin and owncloud42.
I mean, when you run the live cd and want to log in.
See the appliance configuration section. There are the accounts listed. The standard user account is tux/linux.
cool
good work.