Serve and Share
Pydio transforms the Raspberry Pi into a powerful file sharing and collaboration platform.
Pydio on Raspberry Pi
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ownCloud is a popular choice for turning a Raspberry Pi into a personal cloud device, but this application is not the only fish in the sea. In fact, if you are looking for a solution that focuses on sharing files and collaborating on them, Pydio [1] might prove to be a better fit for your Raspberry Pi.
Installing and Configuring Pydio
Pydio runs on a standard stack consisting of a web server, PHP, and MySQL, so before you deploy the application on the Raspberry Pi, some preparatory work needs to be done. The following instructions assume that you are connected to the Raspberry Pi from your regular machine via SSH. First, you have to install the required components using the following commands:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql \ php5-gd php5-cli php5-mcrypt php-apc
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