On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:04:37 +0530, C <smaug42@opensuse.org> wrote:
OwnCloud is a web service that runs as part of your local or hosted webserver. The only attaching to a domain is via your IP address and/or domain redirection.
If you have a hosted service with a 3rd party webhost, you simply install OwnCloud on your remote server and do the setup - not that different from any other PHP based web application such as Joomla etc. The setup consists mainly of copying the OwnCloud app and then setting permissions on the various directories (and optionally configuring php.ini, if you have access, to allow uploading files larger than the default 2MB).
If you have a locally hosted webserver (which is super easy to set up with YaST.. install apache, php, and the YaST HTTP server module) you basically do the same as with a remote hosted service.
Access to the OwnCloud is basically... open a browser, point it at http://www.yourdomain.com/owncloud and log in. If you don't have a domain, but have a static IP, you can point it at the IP address http://1.2.3.4/owncloud and it'll still work fine. If you have a dynamic IP, then you have to go with a dynamic domain service because you don't know what your IP address will be with each new IP lease (although you could use it locally inside your LAN if you didn't need external access and simply wanted a way to share files on your LAN).
Your default admin user is defined during setup. Any additional users are defined by the admin user within the interface.
You can add webdav access for the host machine to make it easier to copy files in/out from the host machine.
thank you, that was an interesting intro. i don't need ownCloud, but at least i know what it is now. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org