2022.04.06

OwnCloud Configuration and Usage Guidefor International Joint Research Projects•

If you have any trouble or enquiry please e-mail to Technical Support Board (ml-tech-support@ml.ritsumei.ac.jp)

I. Introduction
This guide will assist you with configuring and using ARC’s Cloud Data storage ownCloud. The setup
instructions will include how to configure automatic synchronization between your locally saved
documents and the cloud storage server, how to navigate the web interface, and how to share astored document with another user.
ownCloud Storage information:
You will be allocated 15 gigabytes (GB) of cloud storage space with a maximum single file size of 5GB.
Methods of Use:
The synchronization clients allow the user to designate a folder on their local system that will
mirror onto the cloud server giving the user a “drag and drop” feeling. A synchronization client
automatically uploads files to the cloud storage server. The web interface allows the user toupload, browse, share, delete, and organize their files in relation to the cloud storage.

II. The ownCloud web interface
1. You can connect to the Cloud storage (ownCloud) of the Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University at https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/owncloud/.
Login with the username and password that you have received from ARC.

After successfully logging in, the ownCloud web interface will be displayed. You can use it sameas any other web services.

III. User folders
The default ownCloud folders that will be automatically created after your first login are:“Documents”, “public_html”, “image” and “text_archive”. Although you may create your own
folder here, it is not recommended to delete the default folders “public_html”, “image” and“text_archive”.

1. documents: You may save your project files that won't be accessed directly via ARCservers. However, the folders and files inside the “documents” can be accessed via theownCloud web interface or you can share them using ownCloud.
2. image: Image files that should be accessed via ARC servers can be saved here. There are
two subfolders “PB” and “UPB” inside the “image” folder.
•[image/PB] - The folders and files inside the “PB” are accessible at the URL
https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/theater/image/PB/PJ/[username]•[image/UPB] - The folders and files inside the “UPB” are accessible via a password
protected URL
https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/theater/image/UPB/PJ/[username]. You
will be asked username and password. Login with the ownCloud username andpassword that you have received from ARC.

Even if UPB and PB folders in the “image” folder are deleted in your folders, files in thepublished area are will not be deleted. Please contact the technical support board if you
want to delete them.
※ 240px thumbnail images will be automatically generated at the server folder from theimages of the “image” folder. Thumbnail creation runs regularly a few times in an hour.
Please contact the technical support board if you want to delete thumbnail images.
The thumbnails of your images are accessible at the following URLs via the ARC server.
• The thumbnail images of the [images/PB] are accessible at the URL
https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/theater/th_image/PB/PJ/[username]• The thumbnail images of the [images/UPB] are accessible via a password protected
URL https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/theater/th_image/UPB/PJ/[username].
You will be asked username and password. Login with the ownCloud username andpassword that you have received from ARC.
3. public_html: The files related to your Webpage can be saved here. The URL of your

Webpage is https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/PJ/[username]. Please make sure yourWebpage have a proper index.htm file inside “public_html”. If you have any non-ASCII
text in your HTML pages, you need to declare encoding of your HTML pages. Shift JIS,UTF-8, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP, etc., can be used as the character encoding of HTML pages.
You can declare the encoding in your HTML using style sheets or HTTP headers. For
instance: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS">.
If you save an animated PowerPoint Show (.pps or .ppsx file) or a self-runningpresentation inside “public_html”, that animated file can be viewed at the URL
https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/PJ/[username]/[filename].ppsx_view. Don’t forget to add“_view” after the filename and extension. The maximum file size that can be viewed at
the above URL is 10MB.
4. text_archive: The folders and files inside the “text_archive” are accessible at the URL
https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/theater/text_archive/PJ/[username]. All thefiles inside the “text_archive” will be indexed and can be searched throughhttps://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/text_archive/.
For instance, If the user “abc” wants to share the image “AAA001-01.jpg” through to the folder“AAA”, he/she should create a folder named “AAA” inside the “/image/PB/”, and save or upload
the image “AAA001-01.jpg” to the newly created folder “AAA”. In that case the public URL for
your image will behttps://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/theater/image/PB/PJ/abc/AAA/AAA001-01.jpg.

IV. Installing client software
The file sync client software can be downloaded from https://owncloud.org/install/ for Windows,
Linux and Macs. Mobile apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod, can be downloaded from the Apple
Apps Store. For Android devices the mobile client can be downloaded from the Google play.

a. Windows Desktop Client Installation
1. Download the ownCloud Windows Desktop Client from https://owncloud.org/install/
2. Launch the setup file, leave the default options and click Next > to continue, and clickInstall.
3. On the Install Completed window, ensure the Run ownCloud box has a check mark andclick Finish.

b. Mac Desktop Client Installation
1. Download the ownCloud MacOS Desktop Client from https://owncloud.org/install/
2. Double-click the downloaded .pkg file. Leave the default options and click “continue” andclick “Install”.
3. On the “The installation was successful” window click “close”.

V. Setting up the server configuration
1. Input the URL https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/archive01/owncloud.

2. Enter the username and password.

3. Select local folder to be synced, or you can leave it as the default selected and clickconnect. By default, the local folder called ownCloud. This folder is created in thehome directory.

4. Now you are done. Now you can start upload a file via ownCloud client, alternately
you can use browser to upload the files.