ownCloud for Debian
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Security support
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Since upstream support of ownCloud 7 will end during Jessie’s lifetime,
security support will be provided on a best effort basis with upstream help.
Eventually, this package may be removed from Jessie once Stretch is released
if the security support becomes too complicated or time-consuming, so ownCloud
users will be advised to upgrade their servers to the new stable release.

Database
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ownCloud for Debian supports several databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, and
SQLite.  By default MySQL support is installed. The database will not be set
automatically (yet); this may be added in a later version of the package.

If you want to use MySQL or PostreSQL, you need to set up an ownCloud user and
empty database before going to http://localhost/owncloud after installation.
Ensure that the user has permissions to modify the database and remember the
password!

Once you visit http://localhost/owncloud, the ownCloud setup pages will
appear; it will ask you for the user/password/database information.
To be ready for the future when the database will be managed by the Debian
package, it may be useful to ensure that the name of the MySQL or PostgreSQL
user and database is "owncloud".

E-mail
------

It might happen that ownCloud sends e-mails for things such as password
reset requests or share links.  Please ensure that the host is able to send
remote domains (when calling sendmail as user www-data), otherwise these
emails will never arrive and be returned/bounced to the mail box of the
www-data user.
Alternately, you can set up an outgoing SMTP server in the admin interface.

App Store
---------

The owncloud-apps package provide some useful apps, feel free to request
a missing useful app via a wishlist bug report against owncloud-apps.

ownCloud supports the installation of other third party application
from its own app store.  See also https://apps.owncloud.com/ for an overview.
In the configuration generated by the setup the App Store is disabled by
default, because it will allow you to install software that is not
verified, possibly insecure and also might override software that came with
this ownCloud package, resulting in something that dpkg/apt cannot track.

For the moment, you cannot override this behaviour by setting the
"appstoreenable" key to true in the configuration file
/etc/owncloud/config.php.  This is because the "apps" directory is not
writable by the ownCloud web application as the contents of
/usr/share/owncloud/apps are part of this Debian package.
The default of false for the apps_paths array(array("writable")) key
ensures that the directory is also not checked for writability.

Additional packages
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Some non-default features are only available if the proper dependencies
are installed. Please refer to the upstream administration documentation
for the configuration.

Recommended packages
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Send mail notification:		exim4 | mail-transport-agent

Some apps, not enabled by default, need the following dependencies:
	- bookmarks:		php5-curl
	- files_encryption:	php-crypt-blowfish
				php5-mcrypt (performance)
	- files_external:	php-aws-sdk
				php-dropbox
				php-google-api-php-client
				smbclient
	- user_ldap		php5-ldap

Improve performance:		php5-apcu | php5-xcache
				php5-intl (language translation)

Suggested packages
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Preview (thumbnail) generation:
		- images:	php5-imagick
		- office doc:	libreoffice
		- video:	libav-tools

Static file serving		libapache2-mod-xsendfile

Database server:		mysql-server | virtual-mysql-server | postgresql

Theming
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Themes can be dropped in /var/lib/owncloud/themes and then enabled through
the admin interface.  See also /var/lib/owncloud/themes/README.

Running on specific/single virtual host(s)
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At the moment ownCloud runs under /owncloud under all virtual hosts.
This is due to the alias set in /etc/apache2/conf.d/owncloud.conf.
To make ownCloud reachable via a specific or just a single virtual host,
comment out the Alias directive in /etc/apache2/conf.d/owncloud.conf and
add it to the VirtualHost section of the respective hosts.

Running as a virtual host
-------------------------

To run ownCloud as a single virtual host, comment out the Alias directive
in /etc/apache2/conf.d/owncloud.conf and set the DocumentRoot to
/usr/share/owncloud in the VirtualHost section of the respective virtual host.

ownCloud uses htaccess to configure some URL rewrites, redirects and error
documents.  Since the htaccess file assumes ownCloud is accessed under
/owncloud and not under /, it needs to be changed.  To fix this, please
replace all occurrences of /owncloud by / in /etc/owncloud/htaccess.
