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ownCloud Server - File Sync & Share

ownCloud Server 10.16.3 with phpMyAdmin and Webmin on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - file sync and share on your own instance, ready to sign in minutes after launch. Redis handles caching and file locking, background jobs run from cron, WebDAV works with the desktop and mobile clients, and the data directory sits outside the web root. A small service keeps the trusted domain correct if your IP changes.

Version
v10.16.3
Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Architecture
x86_64
Support
Community

What's installed

Every package and version on the image. Nothing else is installed.

  • ownCloud Server 10.16.3
  • phpMyAdmin 5.2.3
  • Webmin 2.660
  • Apache 2.4.58
  • PHP 7.4.33
  • MySQL 8.0.46
  • Redis 7.0.15

Licensing — Open source (AGPL-3.0), no licence key required

Deploy anywhere

ownCloud Server - File Sync & Share on AWS.

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are next on the roadmap. One clean-room build, one first-boot credential model, one patch cadence — identical on every cloud you run. Every identifier below is the real one; copy it and launch.

  1. AWS

    Amazon Web Services

    AMI · v10.16.3

    Available

    AWS AMI ID

    ami-0e367e4ac02be1db8
    Released
    September 5, 2026
    Root volume
    gp3 · 8 GiB

    Instance types

    • t3a.medium
    • t3.medium
    • t3a.large
    • m6a.large

    Regions

    • us-east-1
    AWS launch steps

Getting started

From launch to signed in, step by step.

  1. Launch in us-east-1 with TCP 22, 80 and 8000 open; wait two to three minutes for first boot.

  2. Open http://<instance-public-ip>/ for a launcher page linking each console. ownCloud: /owncloud (username admin). phpMyAdmin: /phpmyadmin (username root). Webmin: port 8000 (username admin). The password for all three is your EC2 Instance ID, lowercase exactly as the console shows it (for example i-0123456789abcdef0).

  3. Desktop and mobile sync clients connect at http://<instance-public-ip>/owncloud over WebDAV.

  4. SSH as ubuntu with your key pair. Change passwords with sudo bash /home/ubuntu/iscripts/pass_owncloud.sh, pass_mysql.sh or pass_webmin.sh.

  5. A stop/start that changes your public IP re-points ownCloud's trusted domain within seconds; set your own hostname and it is left alone. The image is HTTP-only - put your certificate or load balancer in front.

Security posture

What this image does and does not ship with, one fact per line.

  • Clean-room build on Canonical's official Ubuntu 24.04 LTS AMI; every component comes from its official source and nothing is copied from any third-party image.

  • No credentials ship in the AMI: the ownCloud admin, MySQL root and Webmin admin passwords are generated on your instance at first boot from EC2 instance metadata (IMDSv2), and the scripts that set them delete themselves afterwards.

  • The phpMyAdmin cookie encryption key is regenerated per instance too.

  • The ownCloud data directory lives outside the web root with Apache denying direct access, directory listing is off, and MySQL and Redis listen only on 127.0.0.1.

  • SSH is key-only; build-time SSH keys, shell history and logs were removed before the image was captured.

  • The bundled password tools enforce at least 10 characters with upper- and lower-case letters, a number and a symbol. ownCloud's built-in security and setup check reports 'All checks passed'. ownCloud 10.x requires PHP 7.4, which is supplied from the Ondřej Surý PPA build for Ubuntu 24.04 rather than an unsupported distro package.

  • The image is HTTP-only by design: terminate TLS at a load balancer or add a certificate to Apache before exposing it publicly, and restrict ports 22 and 8000 to trusted IP ranges in your security group.