Introduction

ownCloud is a self-hosted file sync and share server. It provides much of the same functionality as Dropbox with the added benefit of being able to install it on your own server and allow as many users as you want to store/access their files. We’ll go over how to access your ownCloud stack once you’ve provisioned it using our Cloud Management Interface.

Accessing Your Application

Once you’ve built your stack, point your browser to the public IP address associated to your server. This is where you’ll access the web-based interface. In order to get ahold of your administrative login information, you will have to SSH into your Stack. If you don’t know how to SSH into your remote machine, check out our “Getting Started with Your Stack” tutorial in the Community Section. All necessary and relevant credentials will be shown to you in the message of the day (MOTD).

It’s highly recommended you keep the admin credentials safe and create another administrator account for yourself. We also recommend you take note of all the credentials logged to your in the MOTD and remove the message by running the rm -f /etc/motd command. Be wary however — if you remove the passwords, you will not be able to recover them.

To create users that can access your ownCloud application, click on ‘admin’ in the top right corner of the web interface and click ‘users’. From this page, you’ll be able to create different user groups with various permissions and create/add users to these groups.

Final Words

Congratulations! You have your very own file hosting service running from your Stack. Check out the ownCloud documentation for more information about their platform and for more information about how to develop applications using their REST API. From us at Stack Harbor, ahoy!