Mayan EDMS_ is a Free Open Source Electronic Document Management System,
coded in the Python language using the Django web application framework
and released under the Apache 2.0 License. It provides an electronic vault
or repository for electronic documents.
This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core_:
Mayan EDMS installed via PIP from PyPI_ into virtualenv within
/opt/mayan-edms
Security note: Updates to Mayan EDMS may require supervision so they ARE NOT configured to install automatically. See below for updating Mayan EDMS.
Includes all pre-reqs: Virtualenv/Django/Gunicorn/Celery/Redis/Supervisor
SSL support out of the box.
PostgreSQL is installed as Mayan's backend database
Adminer_ administration frontend for PostgreSQL (listening on
port 12322 - uses SSL).
Nginx configured as reverse proxy for Mayan WebUI.
Webmin modules for configuring PostgreSQL.
Note: as of v15.0 build of Mayan-EDMS appliance, Mayan now uses environment variables to provide config settings. A convenience copy of these can be found at /etc/mayan/env. This makes it easier to run the mayan-edms commandline tool. For example::
ENV=/etc/mayan/env
BIN=/opt/mayan-edms/bin
su - mayan -c ". $ENV && $BIN/mayan-edms.py help"Always ensure that you have a current, working backup before performing an upgrade.
Read through the relevant Mayan EDMS Release Notes_ since the version you are
upgrading from.
Check Mayan EDMS Direct Deployment - Basic_ documentation for dependency
updates, and other adjustments that may be required. Then to upgrade to the
latest version (using 3.5.5 as an example below) of Mayan EDMS from the command
line::
REMOVE=/etc/mayan/removals.txt
curl https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/raw/master/removals.txt > $REMOVE
supervisorctl stop all
ENV=/etc/mayan/env
BIN=/opt/mayan-edms/bin
su - mayan -c ". $ENV && $BIN/pip install -U pip
su - mayan -c ". $ENV && $BIN/pip uninstall -r $REMOVE"
su - mayan -c ". $ENV && $BIN/pip install mayan-edms==3.5.5"
supervisorctl start all.. _Mayan EDMS: https://www.mayan-edms.com .. _PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mayan-edms .. _TurnKey Core: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/core .. _Adminer: https://www.adminer.org/ .. _Release Notes: https://docs.mayan-edms.com/releases/index.html .. _Direct Deployment - Basic: https://docs.mayan-edms.com/chapters/deploying.html#basic-deployment