Installation Pydio by steps on CentOS 6.

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This article will introduce steps to install Pydio step by step in CentOS 6.5 environement.
If you are running CentOS7, please make sure to read the dedicated article here.
Firstly, download pydio from sourceforge at https://pyd.io/download/. In this case, we are going
to use installation from zip file
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1 Step 1: Preparation

2 Step 2: Installation dependencies for Pydio

o 2.1 PHP and dependencies:
o 2.2 MySQL
o 2.3 Apache2

3 Step 3. Install PYDIO

o

3.0.1 Configure Virtual Directory for pydio

4 Step 4. Post-installation

5 Step 5. Hardening
o 5.1 Minimize permission on your Pydio data
o 5.2 Configure iptables service:
o 5.3 Harden you server with several steps

Step 1: Preparation

 Download CentOS from http://wiki.centos.org/Download. In this article, we used CentOS-6.5x86_64-minimal.iso

Install operating system
Download Pydio from https://pyd.io/download/. In this case, we are going to use installation
from zip file

Step 2: Installation dependencies for Pydio

Update repository database
# for mcrypt module
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm
yum -y update

PHP and dependencies:

yum install -y php php-apc php-mbstring php-pecl-apc php-mysql php-cli phpdevel php-gd php-ldap php-pecl-memcache php-pspell php-snmp php-xmlrpc php-xml
php-imap php-mcrypt*

Configure max size file for uploading in php.ini

upload_max_filesize = 1024M
post_max_size = 1024M
Turn off output_buffering in php.ini
output_buffering = Off

MySQL
yum install -y mysql-server

running /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation and following the instruction for security mysql

server
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

MySQL preparation database

#Create database
service mysqld start
# connect to mysql server
mysql -u username -p
# in mode mysql>_
create database pydio
create user pydio@localhost identified by 'mysqlpassword'
grant all privileges on pydio.* to pydio@localhost identified by
'mysqlpassword' with grant option
chkconfig mysqld --levels 235 on

Apache2
yum install httpd
# install module ssl
yum install -y openssl mod_ssl
# start apache with system
chkconfig httpd --levels 235 on

Apache2 generation automatically certificate

sample shell script: generate-certificte.sh
After running this script, two files are created:
Key file: /etc/pki/tls/private/pydio.pem
Certificate file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/pydio.csr
Attach this key/cert to apache
# override pydio.conf when we use SSL
sed -i "s/localhost.crt/pydio.csr/g" /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
sed -i "s/localhost.key/pydio.pem/g" /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf

Step 3. Install PYDIO

Click on https://pyd.io/download/ to choose the way you would like to install pydio. In this
article, we supposed using install from linux package on CentOS system

Install the Pydio repository:

rpm -Uvh http://dl.ajaxplorer.info/repos/pydio-release-1-1.noarch.rpm

Or simply click on this link and install via GUI tools. This will install
/etc/yum.repos.d/pydio.repo which configures the repository, allowing update management.
Once installed, update the yum database and install pydio :
yum update
yum install pydio

Configure Virtual Directory for pydio

sample configure file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/pydio.conf
In this sample configuration, all http request will be ridirected to HTTPS in using module rewrite
and Certificate which is generated in previous step
http://192.168.0.111/pydio_public/38f3b5.php

Step 4. Post-installation
Go to Global Settings >> Application Core >> Main Options >> Sharing >>
Modify Download URL: http://192.168.0.111/pydio_public

Step 5. Hardening
Minimize permission on your Pydio data
# www is group name for httpd
chown -R root:www PYDIO_INSTALL_DIR
cd PYDIO_INSTALL_DIR/
find ./ -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o= '{}' \;
find ./ -type f -exec chmod u=rw,g=r,o= '{}' \;
#Mod data dir for config changes and logs
find data -type d -exec chmod ug=rwx,o= '{}' \;
find data -type f -exec chmod ug=rw,o= '{}' \;