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Installing Alfresco Lab 3 Stable on Ubuntu 8.10
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Install Ubuntu
Lets just make sure everything is current
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Install packages
I have added MySQL as part of the Ubuntu setup.
sudo apt-get install imagemagick mysql-server 'openoffice.org-headless' xvfb swftools sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre nfs-common portmap ia32-libs
Note: The ia32-libs package is only needed if installing in a 64-bit environment.
You will have accept the JAVA license. You will have to enter a password for MySQL.
Install Alfresco Lab
Ensure you have downloaded Alfresco-Labs-3Stable-Linux-x86-Install.
Locate and download
Alfresco-Labs-3Stable-Linux-x86-Install chmod 777 Alfresco-Labs-3Stable-Linux-x86-Install
./Alfresco-Labs-3Stable-Linux-x86-Install
The installer will ask you if you want to install Alfresco [n/Y]
The installer will ask you where you want to install Alfresco. The default is /opt/Alfresco.
[root@alfresco tmp]# ./Alfresco-Labs-3Stable-Linux-x86-Install This will install Alfresco Labs on your computer. Continue? [n/Y] Where do you want to install Alfresco Labs? [/opt/Alfresco] Installing Alfresco Labs... Installing Program Files... Installing Program Files Linux... Installing Samples... Installing WCM... Installing WCM Linux... Installation complete. [root@alfresco tmp]#
Set up Alfresco Environment
cd /opt/Alfresco
Only have to change ALF_HOME and export JAVA_HOME
vi /opt/Alfresco/alfresco.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Start or stop Alfresco server
# Set the following to where Tomcat is installed
ALF_HOME=/opt/Alfresco
cd "$ALF_HOME"
APPSERVER="${ALF_HOME}/tomcat"
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.10/"
# Set any default JVM values
export JAVA_OPTS='-Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -server'
# Following only needed for Sun JVMs before to 1.5 update 8
#export JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader\$1,doBody -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/alfr
#esco/repo/search/impl/lucene/index/IndexInfo\$Merger,mergeIndexes -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/alfresco/repo/search/impl/lucene/index/Ind
#exInfo\$Merger,mergeDeletions"
#
if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
"${APPSERVER}/bin/startup.sh"
# if [ -r ./virtual_start.sh ]; then
# sh ./virtual_start.sh
# fi
# if [ -r "$ALF_HOME"/start_oo.sh ]; then
# sh "$ALF_HOME"/start_oo.sh
# fi
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
"${APPSERVER}/bin/shutdown.sh"
# if [ -r ./virtual_start.sh ]; then
# sh ./virtual_stop.sh
# fi
# if [ -r "$ALF_HOME"/start_oo.sh ]; then
# killall soffice.bin
# fi
fi
Set up Virtual Alfresco Environment
Only have to change ALF_HOME and export JAVA_HOME
vi /opt/Alfresco/virtual_alf.sh
#!/bin/sh # Start or stop Alfresco server # Set the following to where Tomcat is installed ALF_HOME=/opt/Alfresco cd "$ALF_HOME" APPSERVER="$ALF_HOME"/virtual-tomcat export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.10/" # Start virtual-tomcat # if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then "$APPSERVER"/bin/startup.sh elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then "$APPSERVER"/bin/shutdown.sh fi
Change HSQL Database to MySQL Database
This process will wipe out all your data, be very very careful.
Test mysql is running:
mysql -u root -p
then exit:
mysql> exit;
Add Alfresco user etc to mysql
sudo mysql -p < /opt/Alfresco/extras/databases/mysql/db_setup.sql
See if the database is there:
#mysql -p
mysql> show databases; +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | alfresco | | mysql | +--------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql>quit
Change settings from HSQL to MySQL
cd tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/
Now, to direct Alfresco to use the MySQL database, two files (both located in the above directory) must be changed. Edit the first file, custom-repository.properties, with this command:
vi custom-repository.properties
Change the dir.root to the absolute path of the data folder:
# Sample custom content and index data location # dir.root=/opt/Alfresco/alf_data
Add comments to HSQL connection options
Remove comments from MySQL connection options
So it looks like below:
..... # Derby connection # #db.driver=org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver #db.url=jdbc:derby:alf_data/derby_data/alfresco;create=true # # HSQL connection # #db.driver=org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver #db.url=jdbc:hsqldb:file:alf_data/hsql_data/alfresco;ifexists=true;shutdown=true; # # MySQL connection (This is default and requires mysql-connector-java-5.0.3-bin.jar, which ships with the Alfresco server) # db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco ......
Save and close the file. We need to change one more file with this command:
vi custom-hibernate-dialect.properties
....... # # Derby dialect # #hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect # # HSQL dialect # #hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect # # MySQL dialect (default) # hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect # # PostgreSQL dialect # ......
MySQL connectivity
If you use an already installed MySQL server you have to check if it's configured to be accessible over network.
Look at the configuration file with
more /etc/mysql/my.cnf
and search for a line which begins with
bind-address
If it looks like
...... bind-address = localhost ......
you can continue with the next steps of Alfresco installation.
Otherwise you have to change the hostname in the DB-URL in
custom-repository.properties
Look for
...... db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco ......
and replace localhost with the bind-adress of the mysql-configuration.
Give it a go
/opt/Alfresco/alfresco.sh start
http://HOSTNAME:8080/share
user: admin pass: admin
Web Interface
sh virtual_alf.sh start
http://HOSTNAME:8080/alfresco/
user: admin pass: admin
SMB Interface
For SMB access try:
\\HOST_IP_ADDRESS\alfresco
Login as:
user: admin pass: admin
FTP Access
For FTP access try:
ftp HOST_IP_ADDRESS
Login as:
user: admin pass: admin
WebDAV access
For WebDAV access try this in a browser: The browser only has read only permissions.
http://HOST_IP_ADDRESS:8080/alfresco/webdav
user: admin pass: admin
You can also access this through a Windows Mapped drive using the same URL. The Windows Mapped drive and read/write.
All good.
Start Alfresco at boot up
This will start alfresco when the server boots up The code was from http://blog.khax.net/2009/02/26/alfresco-setup-in-ubuntu-810-with-git/
create a file
vi initialize.sh
Add these lines
#!/bin/sh ALF_HOME=/opt/Alfresco echo "Creating init.d links" ln -s $ALF_HOME/alfresco.sh /etc/init.d/alfresco ln -s $ALF_HOME/virtual_alf.sh /etc/init.d/virtual_alf update-rc.d alfresco defaults ln -s $ALF_HOME/alfresco.sh /etc/init.d/alfresco ln -s $ALF_HOME/virtual_alf.sh /etc/init.d/virtual_alf update-rc.d alfresco defaults update-rc.d virtual_alf defaults
Lets make it executable
chmod 777 initialize.sh
Run it
./initialize.sh
Reboot and see what happens.
