[GUIDE] Installing OwnCloud Server on My Book Live

First of all, respect! Many thanks, excellent guide!

It works on my MBL 1T with owncloud 6 & squeeze. 

One question: current php version is 5.3.3-7. Owncloud says that php should be upgraded to 5.3.8 at least:

“Your PHP version is outdated. We strongly recommend to update to 5.3.8 or newer because older versions are known to be broken. It is possible that this installation is not working correctly.”

However this is the current php version for debian squeeze. 

running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade gives a gpg error

Shall I leave it with current verion?

Finally, shall I stop upgrading MBL fiirmware?

Cheers

turn off

bobF14 wrote:

Finally, shall I stop upgrading MBL fiirmware?

 

Turn off auto-update for the firmware on your MBL. Whenever a firmware update happens, ALL of your modifications will be erased.

Hello again

I encounter problems with files syncronized at MBL. I choose a folder with 211MB inside (484 files total) and about half of them are syncronized. This happens to many other cases, all of them through the linux client (owncloud desktop client v.1.5.0 at ubuntu 12.04 kernel 3.5.0-45). Has anyone of you seen this again?

One cause could be that I have been using dropbox at first time, then I read about potential problems using more than one clowd software and I stopped it, so, since problem goes on, there should be something else.

An other possibility could be that php version is not updated to latest (see my previous post).

Thank you

FearL0rd wrote:

I checked the files internally and they are in a different locations, different names… The guide does not fit for MyCloud… :frowning:

Did you find a solution to install it on a MyCloud device? I kinda bricked my box trying. Does the unbrickabylity-script even work for MyCloud, too? - Sry 4 OT! - maybe continuing here http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/OwnCloud/m-p/679761#M7490

So I got to the point of installing owncloud via its web gui but when it finished installing and I press the continue button it asks for a password? The SSH nor the WD password would work any help, or do i need to start again?

I have installed with version 6.0 - all OK.

I have two questions.

I get the following warning about PHP

Your PHP version is outdated. We strongly recommend to update to 5.3.8 or newer because older versions are known to be broken. It is possible that this installation is not working correctly.

is this normal?

Secondly I try to update to 6.0.2 using the web admin update function as per the owncloud guide.

however I get the following error

Unable to move /var/www/owncloud/3rdparty/Archive to /var/www/owncloud/data/updater_backup/tmp/3rdparty/Archive

and the update fails

Any suggestions?

fsman wrote:

Your PHP version is outdated. We strongly recommend to update to 5.3.8 or newer because older versions are known to be broken. It is possible that this installation is not working correctly.

is this normal?

 Essentially, yes. The packages the WD software uses are a bit old, and ownCloud has to use the WD software. It could be upgraded, but that could potentially break the MBL functionality. Not worth the risk.

fsman wrote:

Secondly I try to update to 6.0.2 using the web admin update function as per the owncloud guide.

however I get the following error

Unable to move /var/www/owncloud/3rdparty/Archive to /var/www/owncloud/data/updater_backup/tmp/3rdparty/Archive

and the update fails

 

Any suggestions?

Check the permissions for /var/www/owncloud before trying the update. Apache needs write permissions. You can try

chmod ugo+w /var/www/owncloud

 before the update. This may make your installation vulnerable to security issues. Restore the permissions after the upgrade:

chmod ugo-w /var/www/owncloud

 Let me know if that helps!

Hello. This is a great guide. I’ve installed owncloud in mybooklive 2TB but when i connect to owncloud MBL turns very very slow. I’ve checked processor usage with top and I see that apache2 is using over 95% of processor.

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
17734 www-data 4 -16 106m 37m 21m R 97.7 15.2 0:21.65 apache2

Is it a normal behavior or maybe my installation is wrong?

When I gp to the setup in the webbrowser I can only open the first page. Nothing happens when I press the “Next”-button. I have followed the instruction plus installe the keys. I do not get any error message when I run the installation process as described. 

Is the new version of Owncloud not comaptible? 

I deleted the setup-owncloud.php file, reloaded and then it worked. 

Roland