{"id":827,"date":"2012-11-01T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2025-07-02T03:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:12:55","slug":"script-install-owncloud-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-vps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/script-install-owncloud-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-vps\/","title":{"rendered":"Install ownCloud on Ubuntu 12.04"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Status: Deprecated<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

This article, “Install ownCloud on Ubuntu 12.04,” covers a version of Ubuntu 12.04 that reached end of life (EOL) on April 28th, 2017, and is no longer supported. Installing ownCloud on this Ubuntu version is thus outdated. For this reason, this guide is no longer maintained. If you are currently operating a server and wondering how to install ownCloud on Ubuntu 12.04, we highly recommend contacting RoseHosting’s fully managed support<\/a> to upgrade or migrate to a supported version of Ubuntu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See Instead:<\/strong> Although this guide may still be helpful as a reference for understanding the process of installing ownCloud on Ubuntu 12.04, it may not be compatible with other Ubuntu releases. The following RoseHosting tutorial outlines how to install OwnCloud 7 on Ubuntu 14.04<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a>In one of our previous blog posts, we had covered how to install ownCloud on a CentOS 6 VPS<\/a>, today we will see how to install ownCloud on an Ubuntu 12.04 server<\/a> using an automated bash script.<\/p>\n

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#!\/bin\/bash\n#\n# Install owncloud\n# This script assumes you already have installed Apache & MySQL\n#\n\n# Change me\nMYSQL_ROOT_PASSWD=\"YOUR MYSQL ROOT PASSWORD\"\n\n# Path to your localhost\nwww=\"\/var\/www\"\n\n# Apache User\nwwwdata=\"www-data\"\n\n# Make sure only root can run our script\nif [ \"$(id -u)\" != \"0\" ]; then\necho \"This script must be run as root\" 1>&2\n   exit 1\nfi\n\n# Check arguments\nif [ $# -ne 1 ]; then\n    echo \"Usage $0 domainName\"\n    exit 1\nfi\n\n# Create MySQL database\nMYSQL_OC_PASSWD=$(<\/dev\/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c 8)\nQ1=\"CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS owncloud;\"\nQ2=\"GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON owncloud.* TO 'owncloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$MYSQL_OC_PASSWD';\"\nQ3=\"FLUSH PRIVILEGES;\"\nSQL=\"${Q1}${Q2}${Q3}\"\nmysql -uroot -p$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWD -e \"$SQL\" > \/dev\/null 2>&1\n\n# Check if the database is created\nif [ $? -ne 0 ]; then\n    echo \"Cannot connect to the MySQL database server\"\n    exit 1\nfi\n\n# Create the file with VirtualHost configuration\necho \"\n        DocumentRoot $www\/owncloud\n        ServerName $1\n        ServerAlias $1\n        \n                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes\n                AllowOverride All\n                Order allow,deny\n                allow from all\n        \n\" > \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/$1\n\n# Update System\napt-get -y update > \/dev\/null 2>&1\n\n# Install PHP modules\napt-get -y install php5 php5-json php-xml php-mbstring php5-zip php5-gd php5-sqlite php5-mysql curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl php-pdo > \/dev\/null 2>&1\n\n# Download and extract the latest version\nwget -qO- -O tmp.tar.bz2 http:\/\/owncloud.org\/releases\/owncloud-latest.tar.bz2 && tar -C $www -xjf tmp.tar.bz2 && rm tmp.tar.bz2\n\n# Set owner\nchown $www-data: -R $www\/owncloud\n\n# Enable the site\na2ensite $1 > \/dev\/null 2>&1\n\n# Reload Apache2\n\/etc\/init.d\/apache2 restart > \/dev\/null 2>&1\n\n# Output\nclear\necho \"Open your web browser and navigate to your ownCloud instance\"\necho \"Url: $1\"\necho \"Database: owncloud\"\necho \"Database user: owncloud\"\necho \"Database user password: $MYSQL_OC_PASSWD\"<\/pre>\n
What will the script do?<\/h4>\n