[Owncloud] new ownCloud web installer

[Victor Dubiniuk]

Hi,

just a quick notice: http://owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-latest.zip seems
to have 4.0.6 inside so far.

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Victor

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Pimmetje <owncloud-mailing at p1m.nl> wrote:

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>  On 8/7/2012 1:22 PM, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> >> This is a very nice idea Frank, coz it lowers the needed user experience.
> >> >Nice work:-)
> >> >
> >> >BUT. OC is a very sensible piece of software because u store a lot of sensible data in it.
> >> >
> >> >I think the zip file should be some kind of hash checked.
> >> >Where to get a secure hash?
> >> >If u just compare it to a hash that stands near to the zip on the webpage, it would be useless.
> >> >So what about kind of https page with a signed/trusted cert, where the installer could fetch the md5 of the actual release?With this signed page the installer could check that it did not download a malicious/harmfull piece of software.
> > Good point. I will add this.
> >
> > Frank
> I think the installer should have the hash of the latest release (not the development version). This would require making a new installer for
> every release but i think that would be doable. If the hash doesn't match the user should be informed showing the problem and information
> about the files. I am not sure if it would be wise to add a option to continue anyway. Most users who need the script would click continue
> anyway regardless of whats written in the warning message. I think for the development release there is no real need for a precooked script as
> most of the development users would know how to change it.
>
> I want to test the script on my hosting but i had to change settings to use PHP5.3 that will take some time to apply. Ill send my feedback about
> it when i tested it on my hosting.
>
> Settings appears to been applied now; At step 3 i received the following error message:
> Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by path/to/file/*web-installer_setup-owncloud.php* on line *222*At the looks of it ownload was downloaded and installed. The webinstaller was deleted. So no problem there. Browsing to
> /owncloud/ allowed me to compete the setup. A quick look into OC suggested that everything is working there.
>
> Maybe it would be nice to select the folder of installation. Current directory or subdirectory. And the possibly to give it a custom name (for subdirectory).
>
> Nice work.
>
> Pimmetje
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