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1 Document Manager Administration manual
2
3
4 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
5 -------------------------
6
7 1. get latest version of Document Manager from
8 http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin/docman.html
9
10 2. go to installation directory (which doesn't have to be under your web
11 server) and un-tar distribution
12
13 cd /home/httpd/docman
14 tar xvfz docman-*.tar.gz
15
16 If you decide to install docman in some other directory, change
17 $gblIncDir to that directory in docman.php!
18
19 3. go to directory which you want to have under Document Manager control
20 (this directory needs to be accessible from your web server tree)
21
22 cd /home/httpd/html
23
24 chmod that directory so that web server can write in it.
25
26 chown nobody /home/httpd/html
27
28 4. make a symlink from that directory to file which will be directory index
29
30 ln -s /home/httpd/docman/docman.php /home/httpd/html/.index.php
31
32 5. add new DirectoryIndex entry to your apache configuration file. If your
33 apache has config files in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf find a line
34 like
35
36 DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
37
38 and add .index.php at the end.
39
40 DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm .index.php
41
42 It is important that new directory index file begins with dot -- that
43 ensures that files won't be visible from Directory Manager interface.
44
45 6a. (if you don't want to users in SQL database) Go to you web server and
46 check if you got authorization request. If you did, you also have
47 .htusers in same directory in which is .index.php
48
49 edit .htusers file to add users. You can do that by calling adduser.pl
50 script. If you press just enter for password or enter auth_pop3
51 docman will user e-mail address to connect to pop3 server and check
52 password on it. For that e-mail address must be in following form:
53
54 pop3login@pop3server.mydomain
55
56 E-mail addresses are not used for anything else right now, so it's safe
57 to enter invalid e-mail address it that's valid pop3 account. But, that
58 WILL change, so you are warned!
59
60 6b. (alternative to 6a if your users are in SQL database) change $gblUsers
61 in .docman.conf to $gblUsers = "htusers_sql";
62
63 Download php-dbi class from http://pil.dk/downloads/dbi.tar.gz and
64 untar it in docman's directory
65
66 cd /home/html/docman
67 tar xvfz dbi.tar.gz
68
69 Construct SQL query which returns login, full name, password and
70 email from your tables(s). If you don't have some of that data, replace
71 them with literal strings.
72
73 e.g. if your table is called my_users with columns who in which
74 is login and column pw in which is plain text password you
75 can use following query to get requested format:
76 select who,'Auth user',pw,'nobody@com' from my_users
77
78 Enter that SQL query under $dbi_sql in .docman.conf
79
80 Construct $dbi in .docman.conf in following format:
81
82 $dbi = "driver:database:user:password"
83
84 driver can be: pgsql, mysql, oracle or odbc (as supported by php-dbi),
85 database is name of database in which are your users and user/password
86 is credentials for user which connects to database
87
88 6c. (alternative to 6b you want to authorize users based on IP numbers,
89 client DNS names of HTTP Referrer header (URI from which they accessed
90 docman site). Put $gblUsers = "htusers_header"; in .docman.conf use
91 following form in your .htusers file:
92
93 REMOTE_ADDR=10.0.0.3:Full name:auth_header:e-mail@foo.bar
94 remote_hostname=myworkstation:Full name:auth_header:e-mail@foo.bar
95 http_referer=test.foo.bar:Full name:auth_header:e-mail@foo.bar
96
97 Please note that you *have to* put "auth_header" in password field
98 and that valid options for left side of = in login field are:
99 remote_addr, remote_hostname or http_referer.
100
101 6d. (if you want some combination of 6a, 6b and/or 6c) put in .docman.conf
102 $gblUsers = "htusers_union" and uncomment which htusers auth modules
103 you want to use and in which order
104
105 7. (optional) You can create file named .info.inc in /home/httpd/html
106 directory for some kind of motd file. You can use html mark-up in it
107 also!
108
109 8. (optional) Copy docman.conf into /home/httpd/html/.docman.conf and
110 edit values which override default values in docman.php
111
112 9. if you want to upload files which are bigger than 2Mb increase
113 upload_max_filesize to more than 2Mb in php.ini. If you still get
114 errors on files bigger than 8Mb increase post_max_size also.
115
116 You are ready to go.
117
118
119 DIRECTORY AND FILE STRUCTURE
120 ----------------------------
121
122 Break-out of files in /home/httpd/docman/:
123
124 docman.php - main docman php file (to be installed as DirectoryIndex)
125
126 docman.conf - configuration file which will be copied in document
127 root of site
128
129 auth_pop3.php - authorization module ($gblIncDir in docman.php must point
130 to location of this file)
131
132 htusers_file.php - module for access to users in .htusers files
133 htusers_sql.php - module for access to users which are in SQL database
134
135 adduser.pl - perl script for adding of users (you can also add users
136 manually by editing .htusers file)
137
138 docman.txt - user documentation
139 admin.txt - administrator's documentation
140
141 contrib/ - directory with optional useful scripts
142
143 dbi/ - optional directory for dbi classes is users are stored
144 in SQL database, it will be created after unpacking of
145 http://pil.dk/downloads/dbi.tar.gz
146
147 Break-out of files in /home/httpd/html/ (root directory of site under docman
148 management):
149
150 .changelog - changes of files under docman management
151 .htusers - file with users
152 .info.inc - file with MOTD which is included in interface
153 .docman.conf - configuration file for this site
154
155 Files in each directory under docman management (some of them may be missing,
156 they will be created automatically):
157
158 .bak/ - directory for backup copies of files
159 .del/ - directory with deleted files
160 .lock/ - directory with lock informations
161 .log/ - directory with change-logs for each file
162 .note/ - directory with notes for files
163
164
165 MISC
166 ----
167
168 You can use document manager behind secure http server (https) simply by
169 installing it. For information take a look at http://www.modssl.org
170
171
172 HTUSERS FILE FORMAT
173 -------------------
174
175 .htusers file used by docman doesn't have same format as .htusers file used
176 by web server. That's because docman's file have more information about
177 user (include full name and e-mail address). Format of file is:
178
179 # comment
180 login:Full Name:password:email@domain.com
181
182 for password, I use md5 sum of login and password appended together. So, If
183 you want to create password and your login is 'foo' and password 'bar' you
184 have following entry:
185
186 foo:Foo Bar:3858f62230ac3c915f300c664312c63f:foo@bar.com
187
188 Different htuser_* and auth_* modules can (and they actually do) re-use
189 login, password and e-mail fields for it's own purpose.
190

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