{"id":2836,"date":"2016-02-29T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:41:28","slug":"putting-owncloud-on-a-subdomain-instead-of-a-subdirectory-on-centos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"putting owncloud 8 on a subdomain instead of a subdirectory on centos 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

After moving to a new server<\/a>, I wanted to finally get {{ownCloud}} up and running<\/a> (over SSL<\/a>, of course) on it.<\/p>\n

And I like subdomains for different services, so I wanted to put it at sub.domain.tld. This turns out to be not as straight-forward as one might otherwise hope, sadly – ownCloud expects to be installed to domain.tld\/owncloud (and plops itself into \/var\/www\/owncloud<\/code> by default (or sometimes \/var\/www\/html\/owncloud<\/code>).<\/p>\n

My server<\/a> is running {{CentOS}} 7, {{Apache}} 2.4, and {{MariaDB}} (a drop-in replacement for {{MySQL}}). This overview is going to presume you’re running the same configuration – feel free to spin one up quickly at Digital Ocean<\/a> to try this yourself.<\/p>\n

Start with the ownCloud<\/a> installation<\/a> instructions, which will point you to the {{openSUSE}}\u00a0build service page<\/a>, where you’ll follow the steps to add the ownCloud community repo to your yum repo list, and install ownCloud. (In my last how-to, 8.0 was current – 8.2 rolled-out since I installed 8.1 a couple days ago.)<\/p>\n

Here is where you need to go “off the reservation” to get it ready to actually install.<\/p>\n

Add a VirtualHost directive to redirect http:\/\/sub.domain.tld to https:\/\/sub.domain.tld (cipher suite list compiled thusly<\/a>):<\/p>\n


\n<VirtualHost *:80>
\nServerName sub.domain.tld
\nRedirect permanent \/ https:\/\/sub.domain.tld\/
\n<\/VirtualHost>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Configure an SSL VirtualHost directive to listen for sub.domain.tld:<\/p>\n


\n<VirtualHost *:443>
\nSSLCertificateFile \/etc\/letsencrypt\/live\/sub.domain.tld\/cert.pem
\nSSLCertificateKeyFile \/etc\/letsencrypt\/live\/sub.domain.tld\/privkey.pem
\nSSLCertificateChainFile \/etc\/letsencrypt\/live\/sub.domain.tld\/fullchain.pem
\nDocumentRoot \/var\/www\/subdomain
\nServerName sub.domain.tld
\nErrorLog logs\/subdomain-error_log
\nCustomLog logs\/subdomain-access_log \"%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \\\"%r\\\" %b\"
\nServerAdmin user@domain.tld
\nSSLEngine on
\nSSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
\nSSLCipherSuite ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
\nSSLHonorCipherOrder on
\nSSLOptions +StdEnvVars
\n<Directory \"\/var\/www\/cgi-bin\">
\nSSLOptions +StdEnvVars
\nSetEnvIf User-Agent \".*MSIE.*\"\u00a0nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
\n# allow .htaccess to change things
\n<Directory \"\/var\/www\/subdomain\">
\nOptions All +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
\nAllowOverride All
\nOrder allow,deny
\nAllow from all
\n<\/Directory>
\n<\/VirtualHost><\/code><\/p>\n

Comment-out every line in (or remove) \/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/owncloud.conf<\/code>.<\/p>\n

Move \/var\/www\/html\/owncloud\/*<\/code> to \/var\/www\/subdomain<\/code>.<\/p>\n

Make sure permissions are correct on \/var\/www\/subdomain<\/code>:<\/p>\n