[Owncloud] new web installer

[Frank Karlitschek]

Good point.
Will fix it tomorrow


Frank



On 09.10.2012, at 00:12, Evert Pot <evert at rooftopsolutions.nl> wrote:

> 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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