Community Support for OpenDocMan (Deprecated)

Try removing the trailing backslash from the dataDir setting.

Yes., Thank you it did it.

you don't need the railing backlash for the datadir in windows.....

SOLVED. THanks to a tip, the trailing baclash is not needed for the datadir setting for the windows platform. I don't know about linux.

I need to fix the comment in the config file then. I think it says to put one for windows.

I have a similar issue. When I have our datadir rem'd out, I get to the login screen, but I cannot get past the admin login. I displays There is a problem with your dataDir. Check to make sure it exists and is writeable

When i un rem the datadir. I get a Page can not be displayed.
Not sure where to go with this. I have made sure permissions are all ok. I can browse to the folder in IE just fine??

// Uncomment this one for Windows - Don't forget the trailing backslash "\"
'dataDir' => 'C:\Web\Apache22\htdocs\opendocman\data\',
// Uncomment this one for Linux - Don't forget the trailing slash "/"
'dataDir' => '/var/www/document_repository/',

Found the issue. Needed to have a config_local.php file with the following information in it.

Make sure that you have you whacks going the correct way

<?php
/*
config_local.php - OpenDocMan local config file
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Lawrence, Jon Miner

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/

// Local Settings
//
// Copy config_local.php.sample to config_local.php, then add
// all your local settings. It will not be overwritten by future
// OpenDocMan installations.
//
// See config.php for possible CONFIG variables, and their default values

//Example:
$GLOBALS['database'] = 'opendocman'; // Enter the name of the database here
$GLOBALS['user'] = 'root'; // Enter the username for the database
$GLOBALS['pass'] = 'password'; // Enter the password for the username
$GLOBALS['hostname'] = 'localhost'; // Enter the hostname that is serving the database

$GLOBALS['CONFIG']['base_url'] = 'http://www.yoursite.com/opendocman';
$GLOBALS['CONFIG']['dataDir'] = 'C:/Web/Apache22/htdocs/opendocman/data/';
//$GLOBALS['allowedFileTypes'] = array('image/gif', 'text/html', 'text/plain', 'application/pdf', 'application/x-pdf', 'application/x-lyx', 'application/msword', 'image/jpeg', 'image/pjpeg', 'image/png', 'application/msexcel', 'application/msaccess', 'text/richtxt', 'application/mspowerpoint', 'application/octet-stream', 'application/x-zip-compressed','image/tiff','image/tif','application/vnd.ms-powerpoint');
?>

I think the issue is actually the path format for Windows. In the current SVN version I have made some changes to the comments regarding the dataDir on Windows. Using forward slashes instead of backslashes I think is what works best.

I was having the same problem, but in my case it was because the web server was not providing me the correct path to the web site's root directory. I ended up doing this, which worked fine:

'dataDir' => $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/documents/data',

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is PHP and returns the directory path to your web site's root directory.

Hi,
i had a problem when i login into the opendocman......
when ni login into the opendocman it showing the below error
Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\opendocman-1.2.5.7\functions.php on line 964
There is a problem with your dataDir. Check to make sure it exists and is writeable
PLZ TELL ME THE SOLUTION

Thank You........

This issue is fixed in our latest SVN.