Pydio – An Open Source Alternative To Dropbox

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Download Pydio:

Download the latest version from the Pydio download page.

Here, you have two choices. You can manually download the tar or zip file and deploy it, or add the Pydio repository to your server.

In our case, let us download the zip file and do the manual installation.

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxplorer/files/pydio/stable-channel/6.0.8/pydio-core-6.0.8.zip

Extract the zip file and move the contents to your web root directory.

unzip pydio-core-6.0.8.zip

mv pydio-core-6.0.8/ /var/www/html/pydio

Make sure that data folder has full permission(Read/Write).

chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/pydio/data/

Edit file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf,

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Find the line,

AllowOverride None

Change it to:

AllowOverride All

Save and close the file.

Note: I disabled SELinux permanently to reduce the complexity since I am going to test it in my local network.

However, the official documentation guide says you can use the following SELinux commands to override any permission issues.

Adjust SELinux to avoid “403 forbidden error” or “Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /pydio on this server” errors.

setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs true

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/html/pydio/

Restart apache service.

systemctl restart httpd

Start Pydio Web Installation

Now, open up the browser and type http://domain-name/pydio or http://ip-address/pydio in the address bar.

You will see the following screen. It will show you any warnings or errors if exists. Review the error lines to check what action you should do.

Then, Click on the link that says: click here to continue to Pydio.

Click Start Wizard to continue.

Click on the each section and set the required parameters.

Setup Admin account:

Set default language and file server title:

Configure MySQL database name and user. Enter mysql database and user details and click “try connecting to database”. If everything ok, you should see a message: “Connexion established” in the bottom.

Create a new user. You can create any number of users by clicking on the plus (+) button. Finally click Install Pydio now button.

You should see the following screen.

Copy the contents shown in the above window and paste them in /var/www/html/pydio.htaccess file.

vi /var/www/html/pydio/.htaccess

Here is the contents that I added in my /var/www/html/pydio/.htaccess file.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# You must set the correct values here if you want
# to enable webDAV sharing. The values assume that your 
# Pydio installation is at http://yourdomain/
# and that you want the webDAV shares to be accessible via 
# http://yourdomain/shares/repository_id/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /pydio
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^shares ./dav.php [L]
RewriteRule ^api ./rest.php [L]
RewriteRule ^user ./index.php?get_action=user_access_point [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/pydio/index
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/pydio/plugins
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/pydio/dashboard|^/pydio/welcome|^/pydio/settings|^/pydio/ws-
RewriteRule (.*) index.php [L]

#Following lines seem to be necessary if PHP is working
#with apache as CGI or FCGI. Just remove the #
#See http://doc.tiki.org/WebDAV#Note_about_Apache_with_PHP_as_fcgi_or_cgi

#RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
#RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]

#Following lines may be necessary for a PHP-FPM setup
# to make sure that authorization is transmitted.
# Just remove the # at the beginning of the line

#SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1

</IfModule>
AddType application/json .json

Now, refresh the page again.

Congratulations! We have successfully setup Pydio in our CentOS 7server.

Here is my Pydio login screen.

Pydio Usage

Enter the username and password to login that you’ve created during installation.

First, we will login to the Administrator console.

Enter your administrator user name(Ex. admin in my case) and it’s password.

This is how my administrator console looked.

Select your workspace and click on the “Enter” button. By default. Pydio has two workspaces.

1. Common files
2. My files

Select the workplace of your choice and click Enter to view the contents.

From now on, add your files or folders and share them to your network. To create a folder, right click on the empty space, and select “Create” button.

Enter your folder name and click on the Ok button (the right arrow button).

That’s it. Now you can add files or sub folders. To do that, open the folder by double clicking on it. Right click on the empty space and select Upload button.

Select the files either from your local or remote system. That’s it. The selected files will uploaded to your newly created share folder.

Now, you can share the entire folder or it’s files/subfolders over network by clicking on the share button.

You can set different permissions whether an user can view or download or upload contents to your shared folder/file.

Similarly, you can create and share as many as files or folders to your friends and colleagues over LAN or WAN. Although, you can create separate users and share files to different users of your choice.

That’s all for now. For additional in-depth configuration and administration and usage, I suggest you to refer the official documentation page.

Cheers!

Reference link:

• Pydio Home page