# ownCloud Administrators Manual

# Apps Configuration

After you have installed ownCloud you might realize that it would be nice to provide an additional function on top of the core functionality in your ownCloud installation.

The first step should be to check out the ownCloud apps store. There you will find a lot of ready-to-use apps provided by the ownCloud community.

## Parameters

Parameters are set in the `config/config.php` inside the $CONFIG array.

### Use custom app directories

Use the apps_paths array to set the apps folders which should be scanned for available apps and/or where user specific apps should be installed.The key path defines the absolute file system path to the app folder. The key url defines the http web path to that folder, starting at the ownCloud web root. The key writable indicates if a user can install apps in that folder.

Note

If you want to make sure that the default /apps/ folder only contains apps shipped with ownCloud, you should follow the example and set-up a /apps2/ folder which will be used to store all apps downloaded by users

    <?php

      "apps_paths" => array (
          0 => array (
                  "path"     => OC::$SERVERROOT."/apps",
                  "url"      => "/apps",
                  "writable" => false,
          ),
          1 => array (
                  "path"     => OC::$SERVERROOT."/apps2",
                  "url"      => "/apps2",
                  "writable" => true,
          ),
      ),

### Use your own appstore

If you want to allow the installation of apps from the apps store you have to set appstoreenabled parameter, but this can only be done if at least one of the configured apps directories is writeable.

The appstoreurl is used to set the http path to the ownCloud apps store. The appstore server has to use OCS.

    <?php

      "appstoreenabled" => true,
      "appstoreurl" => "http://api.apps.owncloud.com/v1",

### Guard against malicious 3rdparty code

Finally you can enable checks for malicious code fragments of 3rd-party apps by setting the appcodechecker parameter.

    <?php

      "appcodechecker" => false,