A simple Document Management System designed for home users who do not need the advanced features found on bloated commercial sollutions.
- A Linux web server (local or remote, a Windows server would reqire some modification)
- PHP 7
- MySQL/MariaDB or similar database system with availability for 1 database
- libreoffice-headless is required for generating PDFs
- sudo apt-get install libreoffice-headless (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint)
- sudo yum install libreoffice-headless (Red Hat/Centos/Fedora)
- Mod Rewrite if you wish to have tidier URLs
- Clone the repository to your server
- git clone https://github.com/f13dev/webDMS /path/to/webDMS
- Create a folder outside the web root for docuuments (not accessible externally)
- Ensure the folder is owned by www-root
- chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/documents
- Ensure the folder is writeable
- chmod -R 0644 /path/to/documents
- Create a temporary directory outside the web root
- Ensure the temporary folder is owned by www-data and is writeable
- Until the install script has been created:
- Create a database and dump webDMS.sql to it
- Copy inc/cfg.example.php to inc/cfg.php
- Edit inc/cfg.php to enter your database, site settings and generate some random strings
- Manually reate a user (via PHPMyAdmin or MySQL terminal)
- Enter first and last name in plain text
- Edit temp/secureEmail.php to add your email address, visit the page and copy the content to the email field (delete the file afterwards)
- Leave the password blank for now, this will be reset later
- Generate a random user salt (this is unique to each user)
- Set type as 0
- Visit https://domain.com/webDMS and click "Reset your password"
- Once the master account has been created, you can create new accounts from the admin panel
| ID | Level |
|---|---|
| 0 | Super admin |
| 1 | Organiser |
| 2 | Editor |
| 3 | Uploader |
| 4 | Browser |
| User | Category | Folder | Document | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Edit | 0 | ---- | 1 | 2 |
| Delete | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| View | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
- Create a folder outside web root such as /home/name/docs
- chmod the folder as 0777 to enable write access
- ensure www-data group has read/write access to the folder
- Update SITE_DOCS in cfg.php to reflect the new folder
- Installation script
- Documentation
- Move some settings from cfg to database
- User account levels
- Salts and keys (updatable - Will need to regnerate encryptions and hashes)
- Add permissions to budget planner so x user level can create edit and delete items
- Budget planner
- Add/edit income
- Add/edit bills
- Tables and graphs show your budgeting
- User edit
- User creation
- User deletion
- User table
- Add Access level checks to the required pages - i.e. disallow delete file from level 3 or 4
- Remove links depending on access level - i.e. hide file delete link for level 3 or 4
- Reset password via email
- Manage details
- Delete folder
- Delete category
- Permenently delete from recycle bin
- Restore from recycle bin
- Recycling bin
- Edit folder
- New file
- Edit file
check if session CSRF token isn't set, if so direct to login with error message rather than die- Code tidying
- Commenting
- Move reusable code to classes or functions