Submitted by balboatech on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:48
Hi Guys,
OwnCloud is a pretty nice little piece of work, I think it would be extremely cool for users to be able to point-click-install it along with all the other great stuff.
Thanks!
Status:
Closed (fixed)
Comments
Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 13:13 Comment #1
That looks do-able ... I will look into adding support for this.
I assume that ownCloud is just a PHP webapp, and doesn't actually require its own server of any kind?
Submitted by aitte on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 14:18 Comment #2
Yep OwnCloud is one of the easiest-installed web apps ever. Pure PHP and they've gone out of their way to not depend on any non-standard PHP extensions, which I applaud them for. Just drop it into a folder and go to the URL and it'll ask for two things: a database and the desired admin user/password for the master user. That's it.
I don't know how automatable config-file writing would be, and whether its own installer/setup guide creates folders and such. So limit the auto-installer to dumping the files in, and letting the end-user go visit the page and type in database and admin/password details, just to be sure. It doesn't appear to be as simple as just 1 config file. It definitely creates at least 1 config file, connects to the database and sets up SQL data, and probably also creates the admin user's file repository on disk. So just leave all that work to ownCloud.
Lastly - updating ownCloud is pretty easy too. They recommend that you unpack the latest release to a temp-folder, and then just rsync it to the old folder (their manual mentions how to do it). This way you do not lose uploaded files, configs, etc. Next time you or anyone else accesses the site, it will upgrade the database and it's done.
Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 18:13 Comment #3
Look for an installer for this in the next Virtualmin release.
Submitted by Issues on Sat, 06/22/2013 - 18:21 Comment #4
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.