#OWNCLOUD ON FREENAS INSTALL#
#OWNCLOUD ON FREENAS UPDATE#

A desire to proselytize for people's favorite stack permutations (we don't need forks of MySQL for a stupid OwnCloud guys, come on!).īut 'whoa whoa whoa DrKK' you're saying.

#OWNCLOUD ON FREENAS INSTALL#

Actual errors, or very sub-optimal choices for FreeNAS install scenarios.(If you want things to 'just work', then buy a Macintoaster.) Just robotic, mystical, instructions, with no learning value.Unfortunately, I didn't like any of them, because they all seem to suffer from one or more of the following: There are a bunch of decent guides out there for installing OwnCloud. And I use the word 'definitive', in the title, as sort of a joke on this fact. There are more ways to install OwnCloud, to say nothing of its web serving/database stack, than I can possibly count. This guide will take you 30-45 minutes to complete.ĮDIT: Please see the comments below this post, especially this one. You can always delete it later if you don't have a use case. Either way, it's pretty sweet, and installing it is quite educational.

If your main use case for DropBox is just to have your own, personal, storage in the cloud, then you might find OwnCloud to be a useful alternative. What is OwnCloud? In a nutshell: It is like DropBox, but self-hosted. Also, for those who have asked, this procedure should be just fine for any version of FreeNAS. IT IS IMPORTANT TO WATCH THE VIDEO, since that video contains better, somewhat different, choices and instructions. UPDATE: I've updated this guide, and turned it into a pretty long video on YouTube which you can access at this link. commence the building process with 'make install clean'.If you are asked to set other options, simply accept what's already been selected for you. click ok, and sit back and wait for it to build.If you wish to use the far easier method of sqlite, which is what my video/post show, then instead of typing 'pkg install owncloud', you will do the following steps: If you have the know-how, and have no conflicting database on your jail (e.g., MariaDB), then simply proceed, and Google as needed to get everything set up with MySQL but if you've never done this before, it'll be difficult. This tutorial, and my video, are based on the old assumption that the package comes with sqlite3 support.

#OWNCLOUD ON FREENAS UPDATE#

IMPORTANT UPDATE JULY 2015: The maintainers of the owncloud package for FreeBSD have decided-probably wisely-that the default version of owncloud provided from 'pkg install owncloud' will *not* have the sqlite database, but will instead, expect a MySQL database.

Owncloud on freenas