Server configuration

Packet for query is too large (MySQL)

If you get an error like this:

Packet for query is too large (1708726 > 1048576).
You can change this value on the server by setting the 'max_allowed_packet' variable.

You need to modify your MySQL server configuration file and increase the value of the max_allowed_packet property. Don’t forget to restart the MySQL after any change in this file. In Debian based distros like Ubuntu, this configuration file is located at /etc/mysql/my.cnf.

Not able to connect from other computer in the network

If you expose the tomcat port 8080, ensure is binding your ip, the “address” parameter value should be “0.0.0.0” at $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml:

<Connector port="8080" address="0.0.0.0" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
           connectionTimeout="20000"
           redirectPort="8443" />

Error downloading document as PDF

This error usually is caused by OpenOffice or LibreOffice service configuration.

IMAP SSL certificate error

First obtain the certificate with the openssl command and after this import the certificate with:

$ keytool -import -alias mail.yourcompany.com -keystore /etc/java-6-sun/security/cacerts -file imapd.pem

OpenKM server has no direct Internet connection

If you need a proxy to access the Internet, edit your “/etc/bash.bashrc” file as root and put these lines at the end of your “/etc/bash.bashrc” file:

export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.net:port/
export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.net:port/

You can omit the username:password, if your proxy server has no password.

Access denied installing OpenKM as service on Windows 7

The command shell works slightly differently in Vista. By default when you run cmd.exe, it does not give administrator rights. To get around it, create a shortcut to cmd.exe on desktop, open Properties > Compatibility tab and check box for Administrator rights. Then you can do admin stuff on cmd line.

Problems with character encodings

If your language has non-ASCII characters and they are displayed as garbage you have a problem with encodings.

Check the $TOMCAT/bin/setenv.sh or $TOMCAT/bin/setenv.bat file. You should have set the JVM parameter “-Dfile.encoding=utf-8”.

PermGen errors

If you see this error:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

Edit your “$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/setenv.sh” (or “$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/setenv.bat” if using Windows) and increase the value of the JVM parameter “-XX:MaxPermSize”:

JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx2048m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"

LDAP Sizelimit exceeded

Caused because bindDN has size limit for each ldap query.

In Openldap The solution is to increase the limit of bindDN, for example ( to change size limit to user used by openkm ldap connection )

limits dn.exact="cn=reader,ou=accounts,ou=admins,dc=example,dc=com" size=100000

Behind IIS proxy you get error 404 or 404.15

Using IIS as a web server by default it has a limit for the query string sent to the server if limit is passed then you get some error screen on the client side:

In the server side we get a more detailed error:

To solve this issue we need to increase the maximum size of the query string on the web server:

Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
In the Connections pane, go to the connection > site > application, or directory for which you want to modify your request filtering settings.
In the Home pane, double-click Request Filtering.

Click Edit Feature Settings… in the Actions pane.

Change the maximum query string length:

More information at OpenKM forum.

IIS gets IOException: Internal Server Error while uploading file

Solution one

Change the “Maximum allowed content lenght (Bytes)” from your IIS configuration parameters:

Solution two

Go to webapps folder
Edit the web.config file and add the following under where “2097151” is the maximum allowed in IIS:

<system.web>
   <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="2097151" />
</system.web>

If there is no web.config then just create one from text file and add the following :

<configuration>
   <system.web>
      <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="2097151" />
   </system.web>
</configuration>

Zoho fails with SSL connection

To use Zoho integration you have to configure your server to deliver the whole certificate chain by itself, because the Zoho client does not looks for the chain. Our solution is reconfigure APR in Tomcat to deliver the CA chain separatly to the server certificate.

The configuration file at “$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml” it looks like this:

<!-- Define a SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443
     This connector uses the JSSE configuration, when using APR, the
     connector should be using the OpenSSL style configuration
     described in the APR documentation -->

   <Connector port="8443" address="0.0.0.0" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
              maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true" acceptCount="100"
              enableLookups="false" clientAuth="true" sslProtocol="SSLv3"
              SSLCipherSuite="ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXPORT"
              SSLCertificateFile="/home/openkm/tomcat-7.0.27/cert/serverpublic.pem"
              SSLCertificateKeyFile="/home/openkm/tomcat-7.0.27/cert/serverprivate.pem"
              SSLCertificateChainFile="/home/openkm/tomcat-7.0.27/cert/serverpublicchain.pem"
              allowUnsafeLegacyRenegotiation="false"
           />

CMIS bad URL behind Nginx proxy

Use this configuration:

location /OpenKM/ {
   proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/OpenKM/;
   proxy_redirect off;

   proxy_set_header Host $host;
   proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
   proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

Sigar java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError Known issue in Windows

If you have OpenOffice or LibreOffice configured and you get the error “sigar java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError“probably you have missing the “sigar path” in “PATH” environment variable.

Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: org.hyperic.sigar.Sigar.getSigNum(Ljava/lang/String;)I
  at org.hyperic.sigar.Sigar.getSigNum(Native Method)
  at org.hyperic.sigar.Sigar.kill(Sigar.java:275)

Edit your general environment variable “PATH” and add your “$TOMCAT_HOME\lib\sigar\” folder, for example like PATH=…;C:\tomcat-7.0.27\lib\sigar

WARN net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.strategy.AbstractReadWriteEhcacheAccessStrategy

If you see this message:

A soft-locked cache entry was expired by the underlying Ehcache.
If this happens regularly you should consider increasing the cache timeouts and/or capacity limit

Do you experiencing any performance or usability problems as a result of this warning? If not then it seems like you should treat this warning as just that: a warning.

Otherwise, it looks like the solution is to increase the size of maxElementsInMemory to account for the difference in what is cached versus what is realistically being used.

OpenOffice is not starting on Windows

Sometimes is not easy to get OpenKM with soffice service started for several and strange reason which depends on your OS Windows version and other specific configuration done in server.

First of all ensure your OpenOffice path is correctly configured at Administration > Configuration parameters > “system.openoffice.path” parameter.

Ensure there’s no other soffice.bin instance running. If there’re another soffice.bin instance on execution openkm will not be able to start their own soffice service. Take a look at the process running on Widnows or use a tool like Process Explorer.

Stop firewall and other possible tools which be able to do not allow start soffice service. For example the antivirus.

Try starting application from command line at “%TOMCAT_HOME/bin”:

$ catalina.bat run