OpenKM.cfg

OpenKM configuration file

OpenKM.cfg file is the main OpenKM configuration file. You can find this file in your server in $JBOSS_HOME/OpenKM.cfg.

Important !!! Each time you make some change in the OpenKM.cfg file JBoss server must be restarted to take effect.

List of admited configuration file properties

repository.config=
repository.home=
system.user=
default.user.role=
default.admin.role=
principal.adapter=
max.file.size=
max.search.results=
system.demo=
system.ocr=
application.url=
default.lang=
system.login.username.lowercase=
system.pdf2swf=
ssystem.openoffice=
kea.thesaurus.skos.file=
kea.thesaurus.owl.file=
kea.thesaurus.base.url=
kea.thesaurus.vocabulary.serql=
kea.stopwords.file=
kea.automatic.keyword.extraction.number=
kea.thesaurus.tree.root=
kea.thesaurus.tree.childs=
subscription.message.subject=
subscription.message.body=
notify.message.subject=
notify.message.body=

Changing uploading max file size

The default limit is 25MB. If you want to increase to 50MB:

file.size=50.

Changing repository.xml configuration filename and path

repository.config=repository.xml

Changing default repository home

By default repository is stored in $JBOSS_HOME/repository folder but you can change it with:

repository.home=repotest

Changing default connection role

By default connection role to OpenKM is called UserRole, you can change to other role name. This change need some changes too in web.xml file into OpenKM.war/WEB-INF

default.user.role=OtherRole

<security-constraint>
    <web-resource-collection>
      <web-resource-name>OpenKM Protected Area</web-resource-name>
      <!-- GWT -->
      <url-pattern>/es.git.openkm.frontend.Main/*</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/es.git.openkm.backend.Main/*</url-pattern>
      <!-- JSPs -->
      <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/mobi/*</url-pattern>
      <!-- Servlets -->
      <url-pattern>/RepositoryStartupServlet</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/Test</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/OKM*</url-pattern>
    </web-resource-collection>
    <auth-constraint>
      <role-name>AdminRole</role-name>
      <role-name>OtherRole</role-name>
    </auth-constraint>
    <user-data-constraint>
      <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
    </user-data-constraint>
  </security-constraint>
  <login-config>
    <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
    <realm-name>OpenKM</realm-name>
    <form-login-config>
      <form-login-page>/login.jsp</form-login-page>
      <form-error-page>/login.jsp?error=1</form-error-page>
    </form-login-config>
  </login-config>
  <security-role>
    <description>Admin user access</description>
    <role-name>AdminRole</role-name>
  </security-role>
  <security-role>
    <description>General user access</description>
    <role-name>OtherRole</role-name>
  </security-role>

Changing default admin role

By default connection role to OpenKM is called AdminRole, you can change to other role name. This change need some changes too in web.xml file into OpenKM.war/WEB-INF

default.admin.role=OtherAdminRole

<security-constraint>
    <web-resource-collection>
      <web-resource-name>OpenKM Protected Area</web-resource-name>
      <!-- GWT -->
      <url-pattern>/es.git.openkm.frontend.Main/*</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/es.git.openkm.backend.Main/*</url-pattern>
      <!-- JSPs -->
      <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/mobi/*</url-pattern>
      <!-- Servlets -->
      <url-pattern>/RepositoryStartupServlet</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/Test</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/OKM*</url-pattern>
    </web-resource-collection>
    <auth-constraint>
      <role-name>OtherAdminRole</role-name>
      <role-name>UserRole</role-name>
    </auth-constraint>
    <user-data-constraint>
      <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
    </user-data-constraint>
  </security-constraint>
  <login-config>
    <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
    <realm-name>OpenKM</realm-name>
    <form-login-config>
      <form-login-page>/login.jsp</form-login-page>
      <form-error-page>/login.jsp?error=1</form-error-page>
    </form-login-config>
  </login-config>
  <security-role>
    <description>Admin user access</description>
    <role-name>OtherAdminRole</role-name>
  </security-role>
  <security-role>
    <description>General user access</description>
    <role-name>UserRole</role-name>
  </security-role>

Change max results in UI

This option limits the search results in UI.

max.search.results=25

Change principal adapter

OpenKM can handle user access using the JBoss DatabasePrincipalAdapter login module by default. OpenKM needs an available method for reading users and roles. The class DatabasePrincipalAdapter does this job. For more information take a look at OpenKM_authentication and Active_directory

principal.adapter=es.git.openkm.core.DatabasePrincipalAdapter

Switch OpenKM to demo mode

In demo mode some options are disabled by default.

system.demo=on

Enabling OCR

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

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

Setting default lang to OpenKM UI

OpenKM By default tries setting language depending end user language browser. But you can set a language for all OpenKM users by default

default.lang=es_ES