Category Archives: Nextcloud/OwnCloud

OwnCloud files not showing up on website

Posted on 2015-07-26 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

I went to my OwnCloud website after installing some apps and no files were showing. My desktop sync was also erroring. My Android app though could view/download/upload files. I tested through a WebDAV connection and that worked too, so at … Continue reading →

Posted in How-To, Nextcloud/OwnCloud | Tagged apache, apps, files, owncloud, sudo, WebDav, www-data | Leave a comment

Android without Google

Posted on 2015-07-26 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

Android phones and Google are meant for each other, but not all relationships that are “meant to be” work out. I was able to divorce Google from my Android phone but it was a tough and soul-searching process. Having Google … Continue reading →

Posted in Android Apps, CyanogenMod, How-To, LG G3, Nextcloud/OwnCloud | Tagged Amazon App Store, Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Fire Stick, Amazon Instant Video, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Music, Android, apk4fun, Authy, Bing, Bitcoin, Business Calendar 2, ChatSecure, Chrome, chromecast, closed source, CSipSimple, CyanogenMod, DAVDroid, Drive, Dropbox, DuckDuckGo, Endomondo, F-Droid, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Feedly, Fennec, Firefox, Gmail, google, Google App, Google Camera, Google Drive, Google inbox, Google Keep, Google Location Services, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play Books, Google Play Music, Google Play Newsstand, Google Play Services, Google Play Store, Google Tracks, Google Voice, Google Voice Search, Google Wallet, gReader, Hangouts, HERE, Hulu, iHeart, Instagram, Instant Messaging, K9-Mail, LibreOffice, LinPhone, meetup, MyOwnNotes, Netflix, no google, OneDrive, OneNote, open source, Opera, Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, OSMAnd~, owncloud, Pandora, PayPal, Replicant, Roku, Runkeeper, Skype, SlideMe, Snapchat, Songza, Strava, SugarSync, tasks, TickTick, TubeMate, Twitter, Venmo, Waze, Whatsapp, Wunderlist, Xabber, YouTube | 1 Comment

Install OwnCloud’s Self-Signed Certificate into Android’s Trusted Credentials

Posted on 2015-06-27 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

To get apps like DAVdroid and MyOwnNotes to connect to your OwnCloud server, you need to import the certificate into your Android’s Trusted Credentials. Android seems to have a bug because it will tell you that you have successfully installed … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, How-To, Nextcloud/OwnCloud | Tagged .cer, .cert, .crt, .der, CA Flag, certificate, certificates, DAVDroid, MyOwnNotes, owncloud, self-signed, ssl, Trusted Credentials | 1 Comment

IP Addresses in your OwnCloud config

Posted on 2015-05-26 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

This is a list of IP Addresses in your OwnCloud configuration Continue reading →

Posted in How-To, Nextcloud/OwnCloud | Tagged DNS Server, ip address, ISP, owncloud, port forwarding | Leave a comment

Domain Name for your Home Computer

Posted on 2015-05-22 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

There is a better solution than remembering your home IP address when you need to log into your home server. (I suggest OwnCloud). A long string of numbers is forgettable and changeable! You do not want to hard code your server … Continue reading →

Posted in How-To, Nextcloud/OwnCloud | Tagged DNS, domain, domain name, dot.tk, home, namecheap | 3 Comments

ownCloud 8 and Tasks

Posted on 2015-03-07 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

As of March 7, 2015, ownCloud 8 does not ship with the Tasks app. The developer is working to make it ship with ownCloud 8 by default, but in the mean time, you can easily enable it yourself. Just follow … Continue reading →

Posted in How-To, Nextcloud/OwnCloud | Tagged calendar, owncloud, owncloud 8, tasks | 5 Comments

Google to Owncloud, Contacts and Calendar

Posted on 2015-02-26 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

When you have OwnCloud managing your files, you might also want it to start managing your contacts and calendar. When I set it up, I was not sure how well the syncing would be but it ended up being efficient … Continue reading →

Posted in Android Apps, How-To, LG G3, Nextcloud/OwnCloud | Tagged caldav, calendar, carddav, contacts, google, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, sync, thunderbird | 3 Comments

Owncloud complaining that “You don’t have permissions to upload files here”

Posted on 2014-11-30 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

There are few likely reasons for this to happen because I have actually seen this issue a few times in differ situations. It is frustrating because OwnCloud might have had the permissions previously or it has access to the files … Continue reading →

Posted in How-To, Nextcloud/OwnCloud | Tagged chmod, chown, external hard drive, Hard drive, Linux, out of sync, owncloud, permissions, sync, tips, www-data | 2 Comments

Owncloud and an external hard drive

Posted on 2014-09-15 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

Rather, we are going to create a mount point and not a symbolic link. Continue reading →

Posted in How-To, Linux, Nextcloud/OwnCloud | Tagged Fix, Hard drive, mount, owncloud, symbolic link | 23 Comments

OwnCloud, 403 Forbidden, and Shared Folder

Posted on 2014-07-19 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

403 Forbidden. That is a webserver’s way of telling someone does not have permission to a file or folder they are trying accessing. When I saw this in an OwnCloud desktop sync client, I was confused because the user should … Continue reading →

Posted in How-To, Nextcloud/OwnCloud | Tagged Troubleshooting | Leave a comment

OwnCloud and Raspberry Pi Model B

Posted on 2013-10-12 by Brian Agrawal Goodacre

I bought a Raspberry Pi Model B (http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/RaspiModelB.png) so I could have fun playing with it. My main play item was OwnCloud (http://owncloud.org/) because I wanted to have an online backup of my files under my control. Uploading files to … Continue reading →

Posted in Nextcloud/OwnCloud, Reviews | Tagged review | Leave a comment