Docular is a personal document service which provides a local HTTP server to serve documents from a given folder (including sub folders).

Docular supports the following file formats: HTML, MarkDown, MAFF (Web pages archived into one single file).

The MarkDown support is from russross/blackfriday with a flavor very similar to github's MarkDown syntax.

Docular is programmed with Go language. At present, docular builds and works fine on Linux. Other platforms might also work but I didn't have a chance (or desire) to try it.

If you do not have Go installed, do it now. And don't forget to setup your GOPATH:

$ export GOPATH = ~/go

I use Makefile to build docular, which changes the GOPATH when build.

Next, clone docular source code to a folder out of your GOPATH (for example, ~/tmp):

$ cd ~/tmp
$ git clone https://github.com/linuxerwang/docular
$ cd docular

Now, let's go get the dependent libraries:

$ make goget

If everything goes smooth, you are good to build doculear:

$ make docular

You should be able to find a compiled binary: bin/docular.

If you have my debmake installed, you can easily generate a deb package and then install it:

$ make deb
$ sudo dpkg -i docular_0.1.0_amd64.deb

You can also download the deb package in binaries folder.

When docular is running, it needs certain files (webstatic) which are normally put into folder /usr/share/docular. If you did not install through the deb package and they are not copied, copy them there.

Great, now that you have docular installed, let's start it to serve your documents (suppose your documents are put into ~/mydocs):

$ docular -doc-dir ~/mydocs
Serving files from /home/zhwang/clients/docular
Server running at http://localhost:3455. CTRL+C to shutdown

Now open the URL http://localhost:3455 in your browser. Voila! Everything works!