Owncloud: configuration file config.php absent from the /var/www/owncloud/config/ directory

Question

I am trying to install a home cloud storage following this tutorial.

At a certain step in this tutorial ("Port Forward for External Access"), I have to modify the Owncloud configuration file /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php.

Problem: there is no already created config.php file in the directory /var/www/owncloud/config/. There is only a config.sample.php file and another one (disable-updatechecker.config.php).

According to this Owncloud doc, the config.php file should have been created during the installation (which I did, because I followed all the previous steps of the above-mentioned tutorial without problem).

How come I don't have the /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php file already created? Should I reinstall Owncloud (redo the corresponding step of the tutorial)?

The only thing I did different from the tutorial I mention is that the hard drive I mounted is in ext4 format, but I doubt this is the problem.

Answer 1

I still don't know why the ownCloud config.php file was absent, but it appeared in /var/www/owncloud/config/ after I simply updated and upgraded:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade

With this and a sudo service apache2 restart, I was able to access the first setup page of my ownCloud.