Getting Started with ownCloud: The only precise guide to help you set up and scale ownCloud for personal and commercial usage - Brossura

Patawari, Aditya

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1782168257 ISBN 13: 9781782168256

Casa editrice: Packt Publishing, 2013

Riassunto

The only precise guide to help you set up and scale ownCloud for personal and commercial usage

Overview

• Learn ownCloud User Management
• Scale ownCloud to support thousands of users
• Integrate user management systems such as LDAP

In Detail

Making your data easily accessible on multiple devices is the primary goal of ownCloud. It gives you control of your own data along with the flexibility to set it up the way you want it. Community backup to the project ensures high quality software and gives you the power to modify and create features.

Getting Started with ownCloud is a practical handbook that provides step-by-step installation and scaling instructions. It will also give you an excellent understanding into how ownCloud can be integrated with components such as LDAP and WebDAV.

This book starts with a basic setup of ownCloud for personal use and then clearly scales out various components of ownCloud with examples This book will also help provide you with the understanding to integrate existing systems such as LDAP with ownCloud.

Starting from the setup on both Linux and Windows using either SQLite or MySQL, we move ahead to show you how efficiently user management can be done using ownCloud. We also look into storage backends and how to enhance the functionality of ownCloud by using ownCloud apps.

You will learn everything you need to know about ownCloud setup and usage for small and corporate scale deployment.

What you will learn from this book

• Choose between SQLite and MySQL
• Integrate ownCloud with OpenLDAP and Active Directory
• Configure custom storage backends such as WebDAV
• Back up ownCloud
• Migrate or restore ownCloud
• Load balance ownCloud components
• Log ownCloud for debugging

Approach

This is a standard, precise, and short tutorial for setting up ownCloud and includes advanced topics like encryption, user management, and server security. This ownCloud book would be an ideal starting point for anyone who wants to store their data and also share it.

Who this book is written for

This book is for first time users as well as administrators who are interested or responsible for managing an ownCloud instance. You do not need any prior experience with any of the technology, including Linux/Windows, Apache/IIS, SQLite/MySQL, or even PHP. It is a beginner-friendly book, written with a first time user in mind.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Aditya Patawari

Aditya Patawari is a Systems Engineer by profession, and just loves to play around with Linux. He works on various parts of system lifecycles, and handles infrastructure automation and scaling of applications. He is also a contributor at Fedora project, and can be heard talking about the same along with the Linux systems automation at several conferences and events. His first contact with ownCloud was a year ago when he was just a student, and ownCloud itself was less than a year old, and a part of KDE project.

Contenuti

Preface
Chapter 1: Setting up ownCloud
Chapter 2: Usage of ownCloud and its Apps
Chapter 3: User Management and Admin Tools
Chapter 4: Securing your ownCloud
Chapter 5: ownCloud Backup, Restore, and Logging
Chapter 6: Load Balancing and HA for ownCloud
Chapter 7: ownCloud Application Development
Index

Preface

Up

Chapter 1: Setting up ownCloud
Installing ownCloud on Linux
Fedora
Ubuntu
Installing ownCloud on Windows Server 2008
Installing Internet Information Services (IIS)
Installing PHP
Installing ownCloud
Giving ownCloud a friendly URL
Coping with large data sets and other PHP fixes
MySQL versus SQLite usage
Setting up ownCloud with MySQL
Summary

Up

Chapter 2: Usage of ownCloud and its Apps
Uploading a file
Syncing and sharing a file
Installing and configuring ownCloud sync clients
Ubuntu
Fedora
Windows and Mac
Creating and editing text files
Sharing files using ownCloud
Using ownCloud calendar
Using ownCloud contacts
Viewing and sharing photographs
Listening to music and watching videos
Summary

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Chapter 3: User Management and Admin Tools
Inbuilt user and group management
Creating users and groups
Default storage
Integrating ownCloud with LDAP
Installing LDAP user and group backend
Setting up OpenLDAP on CentOS 6
Integrating ownCloud with OpenLDAP
Setting up Active Directory on Windows Server 2008
Integrating Active Directory with ownCloud
Other admin tasks
Summary

Up

Chapter 4: Securing your ownCloud
Hardening the web server
Apache hardening
IIS hardening
UrlScan
Application pool identity
Securing ownCloud data directory
Security database
ownCloud encryption
Summary

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Chapter 5: ownCloud Backup, Restore, and Logging
ownCloud backup
ownCloud logs
What is Syslog?
Configuring syslog
Summary

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Chapter 6: Load Balancing and HA for ownCloud
The key strategy
The user data storage
Configuring WebDAV
Making ownCloud using WebDAV
The web server
Load balancing Apache is quite easy using Windows GUI
Request Counting
Weighted Traffic Counting
Pending Request Counting
Enable the Balancer Manager
Load balancing IIS
The MySQL database
Basic terminologies
Data node
Management node
SQL node
Configuring the Data node and SQL node
Configuring the Management node
Summary

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Chapter 7: ownCloud Application Development
ownCloud app directory structure
Setting up development environment
Database access for apps
Submitting an application to apps.ownCloud.com
Inspecting a pre-built application
Summary

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1782168257
• ISBN 13: 9781782168256
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 134
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile