Installing ownCloud From the Command Line¶

It is now possible to install ownCloud entirely from the command line. This is convenient for scripted operations, headless servers, and sysadmins who prefer the command line. There are three stages to installing ownCloud via the command line:

1. Download and install the ownCloud code via your package manager, or download and unpack the tarball in the appropriate directories. (See Preferred Linux Installation Method and Manual Installation on Linux.)

2. Apply the correction permissions to your ownCloud files and directories (see Setting Strong Directory Permissions.)

3. Use the occ command to complete your installation. This takes the place of running the graphical Installation Wizard.

You must run occ as your HTTP user; see Run occ As Your HTTP User. This example shows how to complete your ownCloud installation with occ on Ubuntu Linux:

$ cd /var/www/owncloud/
$ sudo -u www-data php occ  maintenance:install --database
"mysql" --database-name "owncloud"  --database-user "root" --database-pass
"password" --admin-user "admin" --admin-pass "password"
ownCloud is not installed - only a limited number of commands are available
ownCloud was successfully installed

Note that you must change to the root ownCloud directory, as in the example above, to run occ  maintenance:install, or the installation will fail with a PHP fatal error message.

Supported databases are:

- sqlite (SQLite3 - Server Edition Only)
- mysql (MySQL/MariaDB)
- pgsql (PostgreSQL)
- oci (Oracle)

See Command Line Installation for more information.