[Owncloud] new web installer

[Evert Pot]

Note that by default php's http stream wrapper does not verify the hosts ssl certificate.

This means that the installer is susceptible to mitm attacks.

The verify_peer context option must be turned on:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/context.ssl.php

Evert

On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:57 PM, Frank Karlitschek wrote:

> More good news everyone.
> 
> I updated the new web based installer to download the latest ownCloud zip from our ssl server. This means that we are now protected against man in the middle attacks. 
> https://github.com/owncloud/administration/tree/master/web-installer
> 
> This will be a new and supported way to install ownCloud from now on. The benefits for users are:
> You only have to upload one php file to your webserver to install ownCloud. No need to unzip it or understand what an archive is.
> It automatically fixed the file permissions on the server so you don´t need cli or unix know how and ownCloud can update itself because the files are owned by the webserver user.
> 
> So installing ownCloud should be super easy now for unexperienced users.
> 
> It can be downloaded from here:
> https://download.owncloud.com/download/community/setup-owncloud.php
> 
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
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