Owncloud install tips

Troubleshooting
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Hi,

In last days I’m playing with cloud solutions, but still have problems with owncloud install since Im not really an expert on linux.

My observations:
Owncloud version installed trough dietpi-software is 8.1.9, latest stable community version 9.1.0 and production ver. 9.0.4 is it possible to upgrade the version somehow?

Diet-Pi setup guide for opencloud specifies to change data folder;DataFolder = /var/lib/owncloud/data

but this gives error:
Error
Can’t create or write into the data directory /var/lib/owncloud/data

Any tips for successful setup?

Thanks for the help.

2

Hi Dimi3,

The current online docs for DietPi owncloud installation specifies:

DataFolder = /mnt/dietpi_userdata/owncloud_data

https://dietpi.com/forum/t/dietpi-software-details-for-all-installation-options/22/1

We currently use the OpenSuse repo to install Owncloud via apt-get. The downside is only v8.x is currently available: /repositories/isv:/ownCloud:/community/Debian_8.0 - openSUSE Download.

I’ll take a look and see if we can get v9 https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/468

3

Thanks Fourdee, I was checking wrong post with install instructions. Will try again…fingers crossed for 9.X version.

Regards,

4

I have devised this way of upgrading owncloud which I installed manually on DietPi Odroid XU4.

I am a single user and the application is not critical for me so try at your own risk!

Download latest version to /var/www/html and rename to owncloud zip.

You may need to install 7z.

Run this script:

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/www/html
mv owncloud owncloud.old
7z x owncloud.zip owncloud
cp /var/www/html/owncloud.old/config/config.php /var/www/html/owncloud/config/config.php
chown -R www-data:www-data owncloud
echo done

Then when you login it runs the update. Depending on where you keep your data you may have to move it.

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Hi John,

Excellent and thanks for sharing. I’ll give this a spin :slight_smile: