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Getting Started with ownCloud

By : Aditya Patawari
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Getting Started with ownCloud

By: Aditya Patawari

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<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>

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Getting Started with ownCloud
Aditya Patawari
Jul, 2013 | 134 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with ownCloud
Getting Started with ownCloud
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Setting up ownCloud
Setting up ownCloud
Installing ownCloud on Linux
Installing ownCloud on Windows Server 2008
Giving ownCloud a friendly URL
Coping with large data sets and other PHP fixes
MySQL versus SQLite usage
Summary
2
Usage of ownCloud and its Apps
Usage of ownCloud and its Apps
Uploading a file
Syncing and sharing a file
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
3
User Management and Admin Tools
User Management and Admin Tools
Inbuilt user and group management
Integrating ownCloud with LDAP
Summary
4
Securing your ownCloud
Securing your ownCloud
Hardening the web server
Securing ownCloud data directory
ownCloud encryption
Summary
5
ownCloud Backup, Restore, and Logging
ownCloud Backup, Restore, and Logging
ownCloud backup
Summary
6
Load Balancing and HA for ownCloud
Load Balancing and HA for ownCloud
The key strategy
The user data storage
The web server
The MySQL database
Summary
7
ownCloud Application Development
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
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Frank Karlitschek is a long-time open source contributor and former board member of the KDE e.V. He managed engineering teams for over 10 years, and worked as head of a unit, and managing director at different Internet companies. Since 2007, he is heading a startup which develops social networking and e-commerce products for several fortune 500 companies. In 2010, he started the ownCloud project and is leading the community project since then. In 2011, he founded ownCloud Inc. together with Markus Rex and Holger Dyroff from SUSE to offer commercial services around ownCloud.

I want to thank the ownCloud open source community for helping me to build and shape this great piece of software. ownCloud only exists today because of over 100 volunteered contributors. Thanks a lot to everyone.

ADEOTI Olusola Adekunle is studying computer science and engineering at Crown Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, and Nigeria. He has experience in web development and maintenance.

He is the CEO of ADAD Technologies, the owners of www.onthirdplanetsms.com, which is a bulk SMS website, and the owner of www.onthirdplanet.com, that is a tech blog. He has also worked on the Monetizing Your Hobbies book.

I will like to appreciate all my friends, family, staffs of ADAD Technologies, and most especially my parents – Mr. and Mrs. ADEOTI Gbenga for their support both financially and morally.

My appreciation also goes to Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity of reviewing this book.

Thank you all and God bless.

Jos Poortvliet has been a Free Software evangelist for over 10 years, and had been involved in a variety of communities. He has been active as marketing team lead in the KDE community, coordinating marketing activities, and taking care of press and promo for the cross-project Gran Canaria and Berlin Desktop Summits, and several academy conferences. He currently works for SUSE Linux as community manager, handling communication around the openSUSE community, and taking care of merchandising and event management.

You can find out what he's up to at his blog on jospoortvliet.com.

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