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Getting Started with ownCloud

By : Aditya Patawari
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Getting Started with ownCloud

By: Aditya Patawari

Overview of this book

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>You will learn everything you need to know about ownCloud setup and usage for small and corporate scale deployment.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with ownCloud
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
ownCloud Backup, Restore, and Logging
Index

Uploading a file


Uploading a file is the most basic functionality of ownCloud. We need to login before uploading a file. Once logged in we will see the New button with an upward arrow:

Clicking that arrow will show a system dialogue box for selecting and uploading files. We can choose multiple files, and upload them in one pass if we want by keeping the Ctrl key pressed. A status bar also appears next to the files that are being uploaded.

At times, we may want to transfer a file directly from a web server. We don't have to download it on a local computer, and then manually upload it to the ownCloud. We can just click on the New button, and then choose From url from the drop-down menu and paste the URL in the text field. ownCloud will pull the file from the web and store it.