Hi there,

i'm looking for an open source cms that can authenticate against Active Directory/LDAP and I can upload MS Word/OpenOffice documents onto, then later be able to open them edit them and put them back there ... i've seen it being able to be done in sharepoint, i was wondering if there was an open source option.

It would be amazing if there was a plugin for mediawiki for it, but i can't seam to find it, i'm already using mediawiki for my wiki.

Thanks heaps,
Paul

There are levels an levels on this one...

You can get Apache to do LDAP authentication for you with mod_ldap.

There is a LdapAuthentication pluging for mediawiki.

You can upload documents to mediawiki.

There are other formal OSS DMS systems out there like knowledgetree and owl.

http://www.knowledgetree.com/

http://owl.sourceforge.net/

We're currently trying to figure out how to do finegrain page by page security on mediawiki, so if you work it out.... do tell! :-)

okay,

I have found this link right there

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Im...on-image_files

about uploading word documents, but what i want to be able to do is upload it, open the word document from MediaWiki, edit it, then save it back onto the web server so it can be opened again from mediawiki.

Any ideas...?

You may be interested to know that Subversion handles (at least) Word documents well: it is able to auto-enable revision-control in the document to show you what changed between two check-ins.

Yves.

Have you had a look at 'egroupware' and its modules? (and similar projects)

Disclosure: I am the content management practice director for Optaros, an open source consulting services firm that partners with Alfresco and other vendors.

Have a look at Alfresco. It is a Java-based, open source document management and web content management system. It can manage files in any format and can authenticate against LDAP, ActiveDirectory, or other authentication providers. You could even do single sign-on between Alfresco and your other apps through something like CAS.

The repository is extremely open: you can get files into and out of the repository via SOAP-based web services, REST-based web services, the JAVA API, webDAV, CIFS, FTP, and SMTP.

There is also a MediaWiki integration but you'd have to take a look at that to figure out if it does exactly what you want.

The Community version is available free of charge but commercial support is not available. It's really the nightly dev build. The Enterprise version is more stable and has commercial support available but you have to pay a yearly subscription based on CPU.

Hope that helps.

Jeff