OpenKM LDAP auth

Hello, after some time kicking the machine and trying a several configurations, i got it working..

NOTE: for the config options to be red from the file you must first delete the equivalent configs from the web user interface (those are stored in the DB and override the config file)

Checkout the relevant parts of the final configuration files after the break

Install OpenKM on ubuntu 10.04 LTS

There’re several ways to install it, we use to install in Ubuntu but can be used any other Linux flavor.

Enable the partner repository:

sudo su
vi /etc/apt/sources.lst

Uncomment the following lines:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

Install needed packages:

Execute on terminal the command

$ sudo aptitude install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre imagemagick openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-calc swftools tesseract-ocr

set the Java Home environment variable

vi /etc/environment

add this line at the end of the file:

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/"

Now update the environment variables:

# source /etc/environment

Install OpenKM

Download (http://www.openkm.com/Download.html) OpenKM 5.0.x + JBoss 4.2.3.GA bundle and uncompress on your file system disk (a good option is to uncompress under /opt/).

Execute on terminal the command

$ unzip OpenKM-5.0.x-JBoss-4.2.3.GA.zip

For document preview you need add these two entries in the OpenKM.cfg file:

system.openoffice=on
system.swftools.pdf2swf=/usr/bin/pdf2swf

You can configure OpenKM to use a remote server for OpenOffice document conversion:

system.openoffice.server=http://localhost:8080/converter/convert

Or you can configure OpenOffice.org listen port and a maximun conversion tasks:

system.openoffice.path=/usr/lib/openoffice
system.openoffice.tasks=5
system.openoffice.port=2222

Note that system.openoffice.tasks and system.openoffice.port have already a default value and is not needed to be set.

Enabling OCR

To enable OCR you must put the files system path of OCR engine:

system.ocr=/usr/local/bin/tesseract

Enable PS to SWF conversion

To enable postscript document preview, OpenKM need to convert PS files to SWF using the ps2pdf utility from Ghostscript:

system.ghostscript.ps2pdf=/usr/bin/ps2pdf

Enable image preview

To enable image preview, you need to install que ImageMagick convert utility and configure:

system.imagemagick.convert=/usr/bin/convert

Configuring chat service

By default chat and autologin are enabled. In order to enable or disable values can be "on" or "off".

chat.enabled=off
chat.autologin=off

Check http://wiki.openkm.com/index.php/Application_configuration for more information

First login

Execute the file /opt/jboss-4.2.3.GA/bin/run.sh to run OpenKM + JBoss application server.

If you want your OpenKM installation to be accessed from other computers add the -b 0.0.0.0 command line parameter (see Basic application knowledge)

Open on a client browser the URL http://localhost:8080/OpenKM/.

Autenticate to OpenKM using user "okmAdmin" with password "admin".

Note: From OpenKM 5.x there's a property definition in OpenKM.cfg to create automatically database. Once the tables are created, change the hibernate.hbm2ddl property from create to none. Do it after first time running, in other case all repository it'll be deleted and created in next OpenKM starting.

Please take a look at http://forum.openkm.com/ if you have any problem