ownCloud ISPConfig 3 (.htaccess)

G'day guys,

I have Debian 6 (Squeeze) VPS with ISPConfig 3 installed. I'm looking at hosting some audio files for my Church seeing that I have 160GB of transfer per month and the files are about 150MB each (about 1.5 hours long).

Anyway I tried Subsonic (way too many options and clickable hiccups for old people or low IT literate people) tried a few other options aswell until I found ownCloud which looks sleek, clean and easy to use/administer.

My issues are these:

Firstly on a test virtual server (Debian) I can get it to work great, but it complains about .htaccess - which I can remedy but then I need to change the whole Apache config to

Code:

AllowOverride All

in

however is this the recommended way? security issues? administrator concerns?

Secondly on my test virtual server (Debian 6 and ISPConfig 3 = 192.168.1.201) I make a fake site (example.com) and set the DNS to point to this server then on another test virtual machine (WinXP = 192.168.1.205) I set my DNS Servers in the network config to point to 192.168.1.201 and type in the fake site = example.com and all things work.

Now I follow the same install procedure but instead of placing it in

i place it in

and run

Code:

chown -R web1:client0 owncloud

But it doesn't show up when I navigate to

What am I missing? On my actual VPS I didn't ever make another .conf file for phpBB3 (Forum) or for my Wordpress (Blog) I just placed the folder via FTP and it worked.

I did check out the log for client0 and it showed this:

Any help would be appreciated. I don't mind to make a tutorial up if things work but word of warning I am a noob

Cheers guys,
Regards,
Steven Swarts

 

Ok so I changed the setting of the website (example.com) in the test virtual server (Debian ISPConfig 3) to ModPHP and it works as expected.

However my currently running website http://www.swartsit.com is running under Fast-CGI

NOOB ALERT: I don't know the differences at all

But I use these "addons" to my client0:

phpBB3 = Forum
WordPress = Blog

So is this the right direction or am I completely mistaken?

Cheers,
Steven Swarts

 

Thanks Till, I thought as much found this: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-33167.html

suexec is enabled as well

Code:

drwx--x---  5 web1 client0 4096 Oct 30 23:32 .
drwxr-x--x  6 web1 client0 4096 Oct 30 22:47 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 web1 client0 4096 Oct 30 22:47 error
-rwxr-xr--  1 web1 client0 7358 Oct 30 22:47 favicon.ico
-rwxr-xr--  1 web1 client0   26 Oct 30 22:47 .htaccess
-rw-r--r--  1 web1 client0   86 Oct 30 23:32 index.html
-rwxr-xr--  1 web1 client0 1861 Oct 30 22:47 index.html.bak
drwxr-xr-x 14 web1 client0 4096 Oct 30 23:43 owncloud
-rwxr-xr--  1 web1 client0   24 Oct 30 22:47 robots.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 web1 client0 6957 Oct 10 23:06 setup-owncloud.php
drwxr-xr-x  2 web1 client0 4096 Oct 30 22:47 stats

 

Nothing changed...

Yeah according to the ownCloud website there are two options to install either by this php script or by downloading the code and manually installing.

In ISPConfig under Sites I have the following:

CGI = Checked
SSI = unChecked
Ruby = unChecked
Python = unChecked
SuEXEC = Checked
Own Error-Documents = Checked
Auto-Subdomain = www.
SSL = unChecked
PHP = Fast-CGI
Active = Checked

Unfortunately neither work. But if I change to ModPHP it does.
Very strange and the logs just mention the same as I posted above.

 

For some reason I decided to try it on my actual live VPS and changed the DNS of the Virtual Machine (Win XP) to point there. Setup DNS on my VPS as well and it works fine. Settings are identical I am running Fast-CGI with suexec and everything.

So strange, this test ISPConfig is more or less brand new. Something must be broken.

.htaccess is however not working still

I believe the server settings are at

Code:

AllowOveride None

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Steven Swarts

 

Well I found that it installed fine via the script (assuming it would also by the download and extract method).

As for the .htaccess it doesn't take preference over the server. I set the settings in ownCloud and it DOES take effect (shown in /var/www/client/web/owncloud/.htaccess) but still uses server preferences listed in

Code:

/etc/php5/cgi/php.ini

which are for upload limits ...
Personally that works for me, but I could see that hosting providers would want to limit the upload to 5-25Mb. But in this case I wanted to have at least 150Mb upload.

 

Ahh my mistake, I had an inkling that I was mistaken but I posted anyway. Thank you for correcting my error.

So basically you are saying that anything placed into the php.ini field on the website determines the settings irrespective of the server config in

Code:

/etc/php5/cgi/php.ini 

 

Brilliant

Just as an after thought even though ownCloud looks visually appealing it still appears to have bugs. Any chance you know of a opensource project similar to this that isn't so buggy and isn't Subsonic?

Cheers,
Steven Swarts