Set up owncloud server the gentoo way

[Alan Turing]

I am using owncloud on an apache server.
To set up owncloud, I download the tarball from the owncloud website and extract it to the following folder.
/var/www/localhost/htdocs/owncloud

So far, my installation works pretty well, but I have to install updates manually (extract new tarball).


There is also a Gentoo package for owncloud but I don't know how to use it.
The ebuild copies the files from the tarball to the folder
/usr/share/webapps/owncloud/5.0.13-r1/htdocs
furthermore it copies some files that I don't understand directly to
/usr/share/webapps/owncloud/5.0.13-r1/

• I could just copy the files from /usr/share/webapps/owncloud/5.0.13-r1/htdocs to /var/www/localhost/htdocs/owncloud.
  However, I think this is not the way I should use this ebuild.
  
• I could set a symlink in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/owncloud to /usr/share/webapps/owncloud/5.0.13-r1/htdocs.
  However, there are three subfolders in which the user "apache" has to write while owncloud is running (namely the subfolders apps/, config/ and data/)
  I could set the owner of these subfolders in /usr/share/webapps/owncloud/5.0.13-r1/htdocs to "apache". However I am sure this is not the intended way how to use this ebuild.
  

How do I set up owncloud using the (gentoo) owncloud package?
I was not able to find any documentation!?! The gentoo packages does not contain any gentoo specific documentation. The (upstream) owncloud documentation describes only the way that I already use. Our wiki does not say anything about my problem.

[sam_i_am]

You'd need to use webapp-config to install it to the appropriate htdocs directory. Gentoo keeps a single copy of "web apps" (e.g. drupal etc) and uses webapp-config to create multiple instances of these apps for different virtual servers. Man page for webapp-config is pretty descriptive. Here's a command I use to install drupal on my server

[Alan Turing]

Thanks.

I was not sure if it is a good idea to use webapp-config to write over my manual installed owncloud 5.0.10
Instead, I did the following.