filofant 1.1.4 review

filofant project is a mail archiving and document indexing software intended for using in companies or workgroups which wants to shar

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Jakob Kollmann

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filofant project is a mail archiving and document indexing software intended for using in companies or workgroups which wants to share the knowledge embedded in their documents and emails.

Installation:

Currently there is no installscript, so you have to do all at your own...

1) Binaries

configure && make & make install
in the src directory.
It is recommended to provide an prefix for the installation like --prefix=/opt/filofant

2) CGIs

The CGIs will be installed in $PREFIX/bin/cgi-bin. If this is not the cgi-directory of your webserver, you should move them there.

3) Environment

filofant needs the variable FILOFANT_HOME to declared, to find its config and binary files. It this variable is not defined, the base config has to be stored at /etc/filofant.rc

This variable has to be set for the CGI also, eg in Apache you could set it with the SetEnv directive.

4) System

Create a systemuser for the filofant (eg. filofant). The user has to be access to the base directory ($FILOFANT_HOME) of the installation.

5) Database

PostgreSQL: Create a database with the createdb command, create an user of the same name as the system user with the createuser command (This user has to be database administrator).

su to the filofant user. Insert database schema from the file filofant.sql (in directory sql) If you have nonstandard system user for the webserver or the filofant, please correct the grants in the sql file before inserting it.

6) Base configuration

The file filofant.rc has to be located in the directory $FILOFANT_HOME/etc. Edit (or create) this file and enter the following lines:

BaseDir=/opt/filofant
User=filofant
DBUser=filofant
DBName=filofant

Fill in the appropriate data. I you have password protection at the database or the database is not at the same machine, add the following lines:

DBPwd=
DBPort=
DBHost=

What's New in This Release:
Bugfixes concerning the search and the display of objects were fixed, including an error in the permission check system for the object detail page.
The bug leading to missing thumbnails of stored graphics was corrected, as was an error in the stopword processing.
A Turkish translation of the filofant Web interface was done.
The converting procedure that results in HTML previews was changed, so if the converter extracts additional files (images), they will be stored in the filofant and displayed inline in the generated HTML page.