Document Management System

Procedures to configure and install the application..

Installing to Tomcat

In this documentation <CATALINA_HOME> will be referred to the directory, where Tomcat is insalled.

1. Create a directory "dms" in <CATALINA_HOME>/webapps directory.
2. Extract downloaded dms-deployable.zip into any working directory. This zip will consists of dms.war file.
3. Extract contents of dms.war file into the above created directory.
4. Open the file <CATALINA_HOME>/webapps/dms/WEB-INF/classes/org/jmonks/dms/application.properties .
5. Modify the dms.repository.path property to any valid directory that you want to make it as a repository.
   Make sure the entered path is exist and is a directory. Otherwise, application tries to create that directory, if it is not succeeded, it will create and use the direcotry ${user.home}/repository as repository.
6. Modify the required properties in the same file application.properties, to customize the application look and feel to your needs.
7. Open the file <CATALINA_HOME>/webapps/dms/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties and modify log4j.appender.logfile.File property according to you. Make sure the directory specified in that path exists.
8. Start the tomcat and access the application using the URL http://localhost:8080/dms .
9. Use credentials user id : admin and password : admin to login to the system.