Anyone tried OwnCloud?

[Feathers McGraw]

I spent a couple hours struggling with SabreDAV to make it gripe less about self-signed and name-mismatched certificates, all very common in home situations when you want SSL only for encryption and don't care about authentication. I found a solution, but self-signed certs continually give problems in so many cases I splurged last night and bought a three-year cert from Network Solutions.

Didn't you say (before, in a different thread) that you used CAcert?

I've been using it for my website etc, it's been really useful.

I was disappointed to find that Ampache wasn't working properly with OwnCloud 5 and Android when I was using it last. I'm going to set up OwnCloud again soon and I'm hoping it's been fixed.

I may try using different port to connect to OwnCloud, instead ProxyPass, because I noticed ProxyPass was using quite a bit of CPU.

[SteveRiley]

Perhaps the ProxyPassReverse part wasn't set up properly, I think this can cause errors when the backend server redirects traffic.

Interesting discovery and a plausible explanation for the weird behavior you were seeing.

The newest release (6) has collaborative ODF document editing!

Yep, just installed it the other day. I fear that my favorite CalDAV/CardDAV server is becoming abandonware. The dev's wiki server died many months ago, and despite offers by others to take over, the project appears to be going nowhere. So I will need another CalDAV/CardDAV server.

But as much as I want to love OwnCloud, I have my doubts. Take a look at how buggy (changelog, issues) that thing has been over the years -- I wonder about their code quality and testing procedures. This is what happens when you try to do too much in PHP, I think. I spent a couple hours struggling with SabreDAV to make it gripe less about self-signed and name-mismatched certificates, all very common in home situations when you want SSL only for encryption and don't care about authentication. I found a solution, but self-signed certs continually give problems in so many cases I splurged last night and bought a three-year cert from Network Solutions.

[Feathers McGraw]

I am tempted to try ownCloud on a home server just to get familiar with it.

Would love it if LibreOffice could come out with a web-based version of the complete office suite to integrate with ownCloud so it is almost a full Google Drive / SkyDrive replacement.

The newest release (6) has collaborative ODF document editing!

[dragonbite]

I've been considering setting up my own dropbox-like storage with OwnCloud.

From what I can tell, the features of the two are very similar.

If you've used it, how did it perform (and under what conditions, connection speed etc.) ?

I noticed that the desktop client is in the Ubuntu repos, is it any good? How about the Android app?

Feathers

I am tempted to try ownCloud on a home server just to get familiar with it.

Would love it if LibreOffice could come out with a web-based version of the complete office suite to integrate with ownCloud so it is almost a full Google Drive / SkyDrive replacement.

[Feathers McGraw]

Steve, I think I know where that redirect loop came from!

At the time of writing, I had 2 pi. One was running my website, the other was running OwnCloud. My router was forwarding ports 80 and 443 to the website Pi.

Since you can't forward traffic to different servers based on the content of the message (like subdomain requested), I was using Apache2's ProxyPass on my internet facing pi to create a reverse proxy/gateway to the second (owncloud) pi on my LAN.

I.e. traffic to the OwnCloud subdomain was forwarded through the website pi before it got to OwnCloud.

Perhaps the ProxyPassReverse part wasn't set up properly, I think this can cause errors when the backend server redirects traffic.

From what I remember, i was using ProxyPassReverse, but it wouldn't surprise me if I'd configured it badly.

Feathers

[SteveRiley]

OK. Let me know what you find out. Like I wrote before, apc.php isn't dropping any cookies into my browser, thus I have no cookies to examine.

[Feathers McGraw]

Nope as in OwnCloud is back to normal, no redirect loop. I removed apcinfo.

Will try moving apcinfo back later, and clear private data in chromium, see if I can get both working at the same time. Might also be interesting to see if the problem only happens when I log in to apcinfo (in which case it might be worth checking the cookie for APC if there is one, as snowhog suggested).

Night

Feathers

[SteveRiley]

seems to have done it.

As in now both OwnCloud and the APC stats page behave normally?

I'm very confused!

Yeah really.

[Feathers McGraw]

Completely closing chromium and then clearing private data before logging in seems to have done it.

I'm very confused!

Feathers

[Feathers McGraw]

Scratch that, removing the cookies just brought me back to the login screen, I get a redirect when I enter the username and password.

Cleared all data in chromium including cache and cookies, and rebooted the Pi. Still no luck.

Feathers

[Snowhog]

Look at the cookie? What's in it might provide a clue?

[SteveRiley]

I'm stumped! On my system, that page doesn't drop any cookies, so it's difficult for me to fathom what's going on.

Perhaps you might post a description of your troubles at the OwnCloud forum. See if anyone there has an idea?

[Feathers McGraw]

apcinfo works... but I get a redirect loop when trying to log into owncloud like before.

Cleared the cache, no difference.

Removed apcinfo.php and restarted apache, no difference.

Removed browser cookies...owncloud is back to normal.

Feathers

[SteveRiley]

Yeah, it's one of my favorites.

Well those files are certainly not at all alike! I bet OwnCloud is confused by the presence of the apc.php from APC because OwnCloud itself has a file with the same name but for a completely unrelated purpose.

Try this:

1. Copy the file again, but to a different name.

cp /usr/share/doc/php-apc/apc.php /var/www/apcinfo.php

You may want to make sure there's no existing file called apcinfo.php on the system first, heh.

2. Edit the file and set a value for ADMIN_PASSWORD.

3. Restart Apache.

4. Browse to http://your-server/apcinfo.php.

Does it work? Does OwnCloud also work normally still, too?

[Feathers McGraw]

Clever little program, that!

http://paste.debian.net/60703/

Feathers