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How to Set Up Your Own

Private Cloud Storage Service
in Five Minutes with
ownCloud
In this short tutorial, we'll show you how to get ownCloud up and running quickly
using Docker on macOS, Windows, and 64-bit Linux.

By ownCloud

A lot of people want to pull their data off the cloud for a variety of reasons. Instead of missing out on those great
syncing features, though, you can create your own cloud storage service that you control with a service called
ownCloud. The best part: it only takes about five minutes to get it set up.

The nontechnical way: SaaS

In this short tutorial, we’ll show you how to get ownCloud up and running quickly using Docker on macOS,
Windows, and 64-bit Linux. If this sounds too technical for you, consider using our software-as-a-service offering
ownCloud.online, where we host your very own single-instance ownCloud for a competitive per-user fee. 2
Registration and instance creation only take a few minutes.

Using Docker

While you can install ownCloud the traditional way on a LAMP server consiting of a Linux operating system, an

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Apache webserver, a Mysql/MariaDB database and PHP, we recommend using Docker for swift delivery and
compatibility. Docker delivers software in containers using OS-level virtualization.

Step 1: Install Docker

Windows: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/

macOS: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/

Linux: Install the Docker Engine and Docker Compose according to your OS specifics

Step 2: In your terminal, create the ownCloud folder and cd into the folder (for example mkdir owncloud-
docker-server and then cd owncloud-docker-server )

Step 3: Get the Docker compose file, e.g. through wget

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owncloud/docs/master/modules/admin_manual/examples/installation/docker
compose.yml

Step 4: Set the environment parameters needed – please change domain, admin username and admin password
accordingly:

cat << EOF > .env

OWNCLOUD_VERSION=10.6

OWNCLOUD_DOMAIN=localhost:8080

ADMIN_USERNAME=admin

ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin

HTTP_PORT=8080

EOF

Step 5: Set up your ownCloud through the command docker-compose up -d and wait until it the process is
ready

Step 6: Login to your ownCloud at localhost:8080 or whatever domain you chose to use

Step 7: Install the ownCloud Desktop Client and the ownCloud App for iOS or Android and connect them to your
ownCloud

Step 8: Open your browser and log into your new ownCloud at http://localhost:8080!

In an upcoming post, we’ll explain how to add ssl and a custom domain to your new ownCloud.

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