#Bitnami owncloud update for free#
#Bitnami owncloud update how to#
#Bitnami owncloud update install#
#Bitnami owncloud update free#

If you use their services for the first time then I suggest to choose their Express Lane to get a free certificate for your domain really quick.

#Bitnami owncloud update for free#

I chose Startcom's StartSSLВ service, because they offer Class 1 certificates for free and use a very fast and purely electronical/automated way to validate that you are the legitimate domain holder. There are many commercial providers that offer trusted SSL certificates. Find the line starting with ServerName in the SSL virtual host definition and change it to:

Edit the apache config file /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/extra/nf.

Find the line starting with ServerName and change it to:

Edit the apache config file /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/nf.

Edit /etc/hosts to include a line that resolves both the short name and the FQDN to the server's public IP address:.

Edit /etc/hostname to include the short name ( owncloud).

For the BitNami ownCloud appliance the following steps are required: For the following instructions I assume that the name resolves to the IP address of your ownCloud server.Д¬onfigure the server's Linux OS and apache/httpd installation to use this name. You need to have authoritative access to a public DNS domain and register your ownCloud server's name in it.

#Bitnami owncloud update install#

It is easy though to install a custom certificate for ownCloud and get rid of all the browser security warnings. like with every application using https you will run into the issue that it initially uses auto-generated self-signed certificates that no browser will trust by default. You want to use an SSL encrypted https link for the WebDAV connection, and this is possible with ownCloud out-of-the-box, but. No problem if you use it on an internal or firewalled network, but I would not recommend to send your login data and private files over an unencrypted Internet connection. On the other hand plain http is not really secure. Therefore it is firewall and proxy server friendly (unlike the traditional file sharing protocols SMB/CIFS and NFS), and it is available for all different client platforms. WebDAV is an open standard protocol to access files through an http(s) connection. For the remaining files I would recommend to access them online through a WebDAV share. Luckily you can choose to sync only parts of your ownCloud data. On the other hand having multiple copies of your files on different devices somewhat defeats the idea of centralized storage, and if you store Gigabytes and Terabytes of data in ownCloud it is just not practical to sync all of it to any device. This way you can make your files available on a fast local drive and independently from a network connection. There are basically two ways to achieve this: You can either use one of the ownCloud sync clients that are available for different platforms and allow you to synchronize a local directory with your ownCloud files (just like the Dropbox client for your Dropbox storage). But if you want to actually work (edit, copy etc.) with your files on a Windows system then you will prefer to have them available on a Windows drive that you can access directly with any application. This interface works well on all sorts of end user devices.

#Bitnami owncloud update how to#

I will continue with explaining how to secure access to your data with SSL certificates and using WebDAV in Windows to access your ownCloud files.ДЄfter the installation you have immediate access to ownCloud through the built-in web interface that allows you to upload and download files, manage a calendar and contacts, viewing pictures and playing music: The first part covered the installation and initial configuration of the BitNami ownCloud stack virtual appliance. This is the second part of my postings about ownCloud, an Open source solution for managing your data in the cloud.