How to Install Mayan EDMS on OpenBSD

Mayan EDMS is a free, open-source document management system that allows you to easily manage and store your documents. In this tutorial, we will be installing Mayan EDMS on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we proceed with the installation, you need to ensure that OpenBSD is up to date and that you have administrative access to the system. You will also need the following packages:

• Python 3.x
• PostgreSQL
• Redis

Installation

1. Install the necessary packages

First, we need to install the necessary packages. Open a terminal window and enter the following command:

$ doas pkg_add python postgresql-server redis

2. Install Mayan EDMS

Next, download the latest version of Mayan EDMS from the official website https://www.mayan-edms.com. Extract the downloaded archive and navigate to the extracted directory.

$ tar -xzvf mayan-edms.4.0.5.tar.gz
$ cd mayan-edms-4.0.5

3. Create a virtual environment

Mayan EDMS requires a Python virtual environment to run. We will create a new virtual environment in the Mayan EDMS directory.

$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate

4. Install Mayan EDMS dependencies

We will now install Mayan EDMS dependencies using pip.

$ pip3 install wheel setuptools
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

5. Configure Mayan EDMS

Rename the local_settings.py.example file to local_settings.py.

$ mv mayan/settings/local_settings.py.example mayan/settings/local_settings.py

Create a new PostgreSQL user and database.

$ su - _postgresql
$ createuser mayan_edms
$ createdb --owner=mayan_edms --encoding=utf8 --locale=C.UTF-8 --template=template0 mayan_db 
$ exit

Edit the local_settings.py file by updating the following parameters:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'mayan_db',
        'USER': 'mayan_edms',
        'PASSWORD': 'your_password_here',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '5432',
    }
}

Update the Redis section to localhost:

REDIS = {
    'host': 'localhost',
    'port': '6379',
    'db': 0,
}

6. Initialize the database

We will now initialize the Mayan EDMS database.

$ python3 manage.py initialsetup

7. Start Mayan EDMS

Start the Mayan EDMS server.

$ python3 manage.py runserver

You should now be able to access Mayan EDMS by going to http://your_server_ip:8000 in your web browser.

8. Configure a production-ready setup

This tutorial was designed to get you started with Mayan EDMS on OpenBSD. For a production-ready installation, it is recommended that you:

• Serve the application through a web server like Apache or Nginx.
• Configure a reverse proxy to handle HTTPS traffic.
• Configure the application to use Gunicorn or uWSGI.
• Create a system user to run the application.
• Configure the system to start the application on boot using a process manager like systemd.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to install Mayan EDMS on OpenBSD. Mayan EDMS is a powerful document management system that can help you organize and manage your documents more efficiently. With a little configuration and tuning, Mayan EDMS can be made production-ready for use in your organization.

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