ownCloud Administrators Manual

Automatic Configuration

If you need to install ownCloud on multiple servers you normally do not want to set-up each instance separately as described in the MySQL/Postgres/SQLite Support. For this reason the automatic configuration feature has been introduced.

To take advantage of this feature you need to create a configuration file, called ../owncloud/config/autoconfig.php and set the parameters as required. You can provide all parameters or just part of them - parameters which haven’t been provided (if any) will be asked at “Finish setup” screen at first run of ownCloud.

The ../owncloud/config/autoconfig.php will be automatically removed after the initial configuration has been applied.

Parameters

You need to keep in mind that two parameters are named differently in this configuration file compared to the normal config.php.

autoconfig.php config.php
directory datadirectory
dbpass dbpassword

Sample Automatic Configurations

Data Directory

With the configuration below the “Finish setup” screen still will ask for database and admin credentials settings.

<?php
$AUTOCONFIG = array(
  "directory"     => "/www/htdocs/owncloud/data",
);

SQLite Database

With the configuration below the “Finish setup” screen still will ask for data directory and admin credentials settings.

<?php
$AUTOCONFIG = array(
  "dbtype"        => "sqlite",
  "dbname"        => "owncloud",
  "dbtableprefix" => "",
);

MySQL Database

Keep in mind that the automatic configuration does not unburden you from creating the database user and database in advance, as described in MySQL/Postgres/SQLite Support.

With the configuration below the “Finish setup” screen still will ask for data directory and admin credentials settings.

<?php
$AUTOCONFIG = array(
  "dbtype"        => "mysql",
  "dbname"        => "owncloud",
  "dbuser"        => "username",
  "dbpass"        => "password",
  "dbhost"        => "localhost",
  "dbtableprefix" => "",
);

PostgreSQL Database

Keep in mind that the automatic configuration does not unburden you from creating the database user and database in advance, as described in MySQL/Postgres/SQLite Support.

With the configuration below the “Finish setup” screen still will ask for data directory and admin credentials settings.

<?php
$AUTOCONFIG = array(
  "dbtype"        => "pgsql",
  "dbname"        => "owncloud",
  "dbuser"        => "username",
  "dbpass"        => "password",
  "dbhost"        => "localhost",
  "dbtableprefix" => "",
);

All Parameters

Keep in mind that the automatic configuration does not unburden you from creating the database user and database in advance, as described in MySQL/Postgres/SQLite Support.

With the configuration below “Finish setup” will be skipped at first ownCloud run since all parameters are already preconfigured.

<?php
$AUTOCONFIG = array(
  "dbtype"        => "mysql",
  "dbname"        => "owncloud",
  "dbuser"        => "username",
  "dbpass"        => "password",
  "dbhost"        => "localhost",
  "dbtableprefix" => "",
  "adminlogin"    => "root",
  "adminpass"     => "root-password",
  "directory"     => "/www/htdocs/owncloud/data",
);