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Installing Pydio 8 on IIS 8.5 and IIS 10

Pydio 8.0.0 was released earlier today and has a major UI change along with some minor back-end changes. I’ve gone through and did another re-write of the instructions for this new version. Among other things it now supports PHP 7.1.*. I’ve also streamlined the instructions slightly, upgrading all other pre-reqs to the latest versions, and use the modified version of PHP Manager that Ronald Carter has upgraded to no longer require Dot Net 2.0 so less stuff to install on the server. So it should now work without issues on both IIS 8.5 and IIS 10. Here are the new instructions:

Installing Pydio 8 on Windows Server 2012 R2

Installing Pydio 7 on IIS 8.5 – Pure 64 bit

With the recent release of Pydio 7.0 my old instructions are now outdated, especially when it comes to public file shares. There were a lot of changes in the new Pydio so I have re-written my instructions for it. The biggest change is there is no longer any reason to create your own web.config files, the stock one now works correctly on IIS. I’ve also added instructions on scripting things form the command line like indexing workspaces on a schedule which has helped me immensely since I keep some workspaces updated with DFS and have gotten away from using Samba. Here are the new instructions, let me know if you have trouble with them:

Installing Pydio 7 on Windows Server 2012 R2 – Pure 64 bit

Hosting Your Own Cloud With Pydio

Last year I was looking for a cloud hosting solution and I decided on Pydio and even wrote up a install guide (http://allandynes.com/2015/08/was-searching-for-a-cloud-provider/). Some time has gone by and I’ve updated those instructions for the latest version of Pydio (6.4.1 currently) and also to be a purely 64-bit install (PHP 7 x64, MySql 5.7 x64, etc). The overall effect on a Server 2012 / IIS 8.5 install is quicker performance and less issues with large data syncs. I’ve also updated it to include information on SMB shares so you can access your existing Windows based file server from your cloud server so you are not duplicating files. Here is the new install guide:

Installing-Pydio-on-Windows-Server-2012-R2-Pure-64-bit-With-Samba

Was searching for a cloud provider

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So something I was recently tasked with was finding a “could” service for our technicians to easily share files with each other. We also have multiple people using things like DropBox, Google Drive, Microsoft’s OneDrive, etc with our companies data and no way to really secure it which is a problem. So I started looking into business version of these services and what I found was they were ridiculously expensive.

And that’s kinda where it stopped.  It just didn’t make sense for a company that already has it’s own server infrastructure. To that end I decided to do it in house and started researching alternatives of which I found two main ones, ownCloud and Pydio.  I did some beta tests with both and in the end found that Pydios overall interface was the winner: Fast, “pretty”, and pretty intuitive. The problem was getting it to run on Server 2012 R2 / IIS 8.5 was not easy and none of the guides online had everything needed to get it to function. So long story short after a couple days of playing I wrote my own which is now posted on the Pydio website:

https://pyd.io/example-installing-pydio-on-windows-server-2012-r2-iis-8-5/

Hopefully if someone else is looking for a DIY cloud storage system it will help them out.

Update: I have been asked by multiple people to upload my web.config files for the root and public directories as the copy and paste from the tutorial aren’t working real good. Here they are: WebConfigRoot WebConfigPublic

Also the guide as a PDF: Installing Pydio on Windows Server 2012 R2