{"id":2582,"date":"2015-04-30T07:55:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T11:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2015-04-30T07:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T11:55:37","slug":"owncloud-vs-pydio-diy-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2582","title":{"rendered":"owncloud vs pydio – more diy cloud storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I wrote a how-to<\/a> on using Pydio<\/a> as a front-end to a MooseFS<\/a> distributed data storage<\/a> cluster.<\/p>\n

The big complaint I had while writing that was that I wanted to use ownCloud<\/a>, but it doesn’t Just Work\u2122 on {{CentOS}} 6*<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

After finishing the tutorial<\/a>, I decided to do some more digging – because ownCloud looks cool. And because it bugged me that it didn’t work on CentOS 6.<\/p>\n

What I found is that ownCloud\u00a08<\/strong><\/em> doesn’t work on CentOS 6 (at least not easily).<\/p>\n

The simple install guide and process really is about version 8, and the last one that can be speedy-installed is\u00a07<\/strong><\/em>. And as everyone knows, major version releases often make major changes in how they work. This appears to be very much the case with ownCloud going from 7 to 8.<\/p>\n

In fact, the two pages needed for installing<\/a> ownCloud<\/a> are so easy to follow<\/a>, I see no reason to copy them here. It’s literally three shell commands followed by a web wizard. It’s almost\u00a0too<\/em> easy.<\/p>\n

You need to have {{MySQL}}\/{{MariaDB}} installed and ready to accept connections (or use {{SQLite}}) – make a database, user, and give the user perms on the db. And you need {{Apache}} installed and running (along with {{PHP}} – but yum will manage that for you).<\/p>\n

If you’re going to use MooseFS (or any other similar tool) for your storage backend to ownCloud, be sure, too, to bind<\/a> mount your MFS mount point back to the ownCloud data directory (by default it’s \/var\/www\/html\/owncloud\/data). Note: you could start by using local storage for ownCloud, and only migrate to a distributed setup later.<\/p>\n

Pros of Pydio<\/h3>\n