Up next, accessing your media using Plex Media Server. In an internet with large corporate clouds everywhere, it’s nice to have a small cloud for yourself. Using the free desktop, Android or iOS apps allows for easy syncing of files between your daily devices. With ownCloud 8 server setup complete, the ownCloud web app is now accessible from any computer with an internet browser and internet connection. Your ownCloud installation is now complete!.The next page will be the ownCloud web app with a popup that provides links to different syncing apps for PC, Android and iOS (A) and links to connect pre-existing software such as Microsoft Outlook data to ownCloud (B).Then click the “Finish Setup” button at the bottom. Select the middle option for the database (A), “MySQL/MariaDB.” Type “root” for the Database user (B), the password created in step 7 in the Database password (C), and choose and type in a name for the database in Database name (D).Refresh the web browser and you will be greated with a page to create the username (A) and password (B) of the admin account and choose a database (C).To correct the error, open “Terminal” and type the following command: sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/owncloud There is an error with one folder in the install.Once the text stops moving in Terminal, go back to the web browser and type in your web address with “/owncloud.” It should look something like this, “”.Type in a password and confirm on the subsequent screen: During the install process, mySQL will require a root (administrator) user password.NOTE: On the webpage, the order is out of order.The lines are as follows: sudo sh -c "echo 'deb /' > /etc/apt//owncloud.list" Hit the “Enter” key on the keyboard after each line of text is copied. Copy and paste the commands into Terminal.In the popup, click on the “Continue” button at the bottom right corner.In the “Install ownCloud Server” section, click on the “Packages For auto updates” button.Click on the “Download” button on the top right corner of the page.On the Ubuntu server, open a web browser and navigate to ownCloud’s homepage.Read on to learn how to install ownCloud. As long as the server has accessible hard drive space, ownCloud will be able to store files.
The advantages included added security and near limitless files storage. With ownCloud 8 server setup complete, the ownCloud web app is now accessible from any computer with an internet browser and internet connection. However, instead of having files stored on servers somewhere in the world, they are stored on the server at home. ownCloud is a personal cloud storage solution similar to Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, or Google Drive. Now that we have the hardware, operating system, and web address, the next step is adding web applications to the server.