Getting Started With Oncloud [Paperback]

The only precise guide to help you set up and scale ownCloud for personal and commercial usage

Overview

• Learn ownCloud User Management
• Scale ownCloud to support thousands of users
• Integrate user management systems such as LDAP

In Detail

Making your data easily accessible on multiple devices is the primary goal of ownCloud. It gives you control of your own data along with the flexibility to set it up the way you want it. Community backup to the project ensures high quality software and gives you the power to modify and create features.

Getting Started with ownCloud is a practical handbook that provides step-by-step installation and scaling instructions. It will also give you an excellent understanding into how ownCloud can be integrated with components such as LDAP and WebDAV.

This book starts with a basic setup of ownCloud for personal use and then clearly scales out various components of ownCloud with examples This book will also help provide you with the understanding to integrate existing systems such as LDAP with ownCloud.

Starting from the setup on both Linux and Windows using either SQLite or MySQL, we move ahead to show you how efficiently user management can be done using ownCloud. We also look into storage backends and how to enhance the functionality of ownCloud by using ownCloud apps.

You will learn everything you need to know about ownCloud setup and usage for small and corporate scale deployment.

What you will learn from this book

• Choose between SQLite and MySQL
• Integrate ownCloud with OpenLDAP and Active Directory
• Configure custom storage backends such as WebDAV
• Back up ownCloud
• Migrate or restore ownCloud
• Load balance ownCloud components
• Log ownCloud for debugging

Approach

This is a standard, precise, and short tutorial for setting up ownClolƒ°