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   Twitted by jottley

   13 Aug 09 at 7:31 am
2. I am using it now on the Karmic alpha, I got the .deb files from the partner repo and they installed perfectly. There are a couple of issues with the packaging of it for Ubuntu though, one is a problem with the E4X Rhino package which means some of the Alfresco Share stuff is broken out of the box https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alfresco-community/+bug/304702 the other is that as you pointed out running as the tomcat user it can’t open ports lower than 1024 so CIFS and webDAV are not working. If they were set up to serve on high numbered ports with an init script which runs as root that maps them to the real ports then it would give a better out of the box experience. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alfresco-community/+bug/410375
   I put the iptables rule in the tomcat init script, but really it would be better to set up an alfresco init script that just does the remapping (and unmapping on stop) and change the settings in the package to serve stuff on the high ports.

   

   Alan Bell

   13 Aug 09 at 11:00 am
3. Alan, thanks for your comment.

   I just tested Share looking for the E4X issue you mentioned. I believe I saw it the first time I tried to create a new wiki. I just tested a few other browsers on different OSs and can’t make it happen again. Can you log the issue and the steps to reproduce at http://issues.alfresco.com. That will put it in front of the engineers.

   As for the port issues, I hear you. We may see a new alfresco only init script with some other modifications that we are going to try. One of the reasons why it is not there now is concern over conflicting with samba and other apps (FTP, Mail servers, NFS). I wanted to add a conflict between alfresco-community and some of the others, but it was vetoed. I do like the idea, of providing a script that can be run to make the modifications to file-servers-custom and add the iptables rules to be run when the interface comes up. It would need some testing to make sure that a user can specify the actual listening ports to avoid any other conflicts.

   Again, great feedback. I’ll add this to my list of things to explorer.

   

   jared

   13 Aug 09 at 1:49 pm
4. maybe if the port-mapping init scripts were in a separate package then that package could conflict with Samba and so on. It just seems a real shame not to have a fully featured Alfresco install with all the bells and whistles turned on working out of the box. Reproducing the E4X issue is simply a matter of installing it on a totally fresh Ubuntu Jaunty or Karmic then viewing the Alfresco share home page. The RSS reader pane on the default share page shows the error, as does the blog and wiki. I will have a go at logging the issues on the alfresco tracker and linking the launchpad issues to the upstream ones. It would be good for someone at Alfresco to get the Launchpad notifications for the package.

   

   Alan Bell

   13 Aug 09 at 3:25 pm
5. reported them at
   https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3317
   and
   https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3318

   

   Alan Bell

   13 Aug 09 at 3:46 pm
6. Good thinking. A separate package is a very good approach.

   As for the the E4X bug…what OS are you using to access Share? Do you have any other Java apps running in Tomcat? I am not seeing those errors looking at it from a Mac or Windows.

   

   jared

   13 Aug 09 at 5:17 pm
7. Thanks for submitting those. The second one should be submitted at Launchpad. So it may be closed by the Engineering team.

   I think what I’ll do from now on is take any bugs that are submitted for Alfresco itself at launchpad and submit them. All the bugs related to packaging will/should go to launchpad. Those will be addressed by the Alfresco package team.

   

   jared

   13 Aug 09 at 5:23 pm
8. I am using Ubuntu to access Share (I don’t use proprietary operating systems much ) but doesn’t the E4X stuff get executed server-side?

   

   Alan Bell

   13 Aug 09 at 10:57 pm
9. You are correct. It is a server side issue. Do call it a bit of curiosity.

   So I took a moment to re-read the bug. And here is what I’ve found. The rhino package referenced is provided from the distro. We provide our own. It is this distro version that is breaking Share. When the rhino package is installed it is getting referenced in the classpath over ours. Remove the rhino package and all should be well.

   

   jared

   14 Aug 09 at 12:25 am
10. Hey

    Have just installed Alfresco using the package and all is working well. I did have an problem getting cifs to work but got there in the end.

    Is there an timeline where I can track the next version.

    Thanks for all your work on this.

    Chris

    

    Chris

    20 Aug 09 at 12:20 am
11. @Chris,

    It’ll be helpful if you can share what problems you faced and how you got CIFS working??

    

    Mukul

    24 Aug 09 at 2:39 am
12. Hi,
    I’ve installed Alfresco using the package and it worked OK. But I’ve seen that only english language is installed. What should I do to add support for more languages?

    

    amador

    1 Sep 09 at 7:36 am
13. Alfresco has several language packs available from the Alfresco Forge. There are links for language pack installation and language pack development from that page.

    The language pack properties files for Alfresco Explorer should be installed into /var/lib/tomcat6/shared/classes/alfresco/messages. Those for Alfresco Share should go into /var/lib/tomcat6/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension. The zip files containing the properties files should expand (using a relative path) into the messages and web-extension directories. Don’t forget that you will need to enable to languages to appear on the Alfresco Explorer login screen by modifying the web-client-config-custom.xml located in /var/lib/tomcat6/shared/classes/alfresco/extension (as described on the language pack installation wiki page). Alfresco Share will use your browser locale setting to choose the appropriate language.

    

    jared

    1 Sep 09 at 8:47 am
14. Good start, I think it still needs the alfresco file folder so that you can program rules etc.

    

    Chris

    2 Sep 09 at 5:02 pm
15. Great work on the DEB package but I’m having problems getting AMPs packages to work.
    I’m running 9.04 server and Explorer and Share work but I want Sharepoint protocol as well.
    When I install vti-module.amp using the MMT tool it reports success and a list of the alfresco.war file show;

    Module ‘org.alfresco.module.vti’ installed in ‘/usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/alfresco.war’
    – Title: Vti
    – Version: 1.2
    – Install Date: Thu Sep 03 13:27:12 BST 2009
    – Desription: Alfresco Vti Extension

    However, on starting tomcat again the module does not get loaded and the org.alfresco.module.vti directory doesn’t appear below /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/module/

    Any thoughts?
    Regards,
    Steve

    

    Steve

    3 Sep 09 at 8:08 am
16. @Chris. Can you please expound? I’m not sure I understand.

    

    jared

    3 Sep 09 at 8:16 am
17. @Steve. Sounds like you need to remove the existing alfresco directory under /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps.

    Steps:

    Stop Alfresco/Tomcat
    Remove the alfresco directory (/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/alfresco)
    Start Alfresco

    The alfresco.war file will redeploy with the SPP VTI module installed.

    Basically what happened is the the vti-module.amp was applied to the war file, but the alfresco directory wasn’t cleaned up. This is one of the things apply_amps.sh script does. I’ll update my post with a note about this.

    

    jared

    3 Sep 09 at 8:25 am
18. BRILLIANT!!
    Spot on with the analysis and fix!
    Might it be a good idea to add an rm -r /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/alfresco line into the /etc/init.d/tomcat6 script so that it gets built each start?

    Many thanks again.
    Steve

    

    Steve

    3 Sep 09 at 9:51 am
19. Hi, does anybody try to install it at Gandi ?

    

    Brice

    4 Sep 09 at 9:42 am
20. I was able to install it and plug with an apache front end to Tomcat with
    Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.2 with Suhosin-Patch, and run phpmyadmin. Well.

    I don’t understand the main difference between share and alfresco from the content side, I mean documents are added in place and seen (or not) by others.

    By the way, with this ubuntu package, can you drag and drop existing documents in a user folder (UFS) and see it inside a content box (alfresco or share) as demonstration shown on Windows ?

    

    Brice

    4 Sep 09 at 9:52 am
21. Share and Alfresco are used for different use cases. Both store content in the same repository.

    Share is meant for collaboration using wikis, blogs, team calendar, document library, discussion groups, etc. These are all placed in the context of a site (Private, Public and Moderated). We also use Share with the Share Point Protocol integration. Also, the new Records Management Module is also built for Share.

    Alfresco Explorer is more of a traditional Document Management interface. If you aren’t after collaboration Explorer is the option to use.

    Yes, this version of Alfresco does support the drag and drop to a shared drive functionality. To use CIFS: It requires you to do port forwarding (iptables) since tomcat runs under a non-root user. I’m working on a post that will explain how to configure and provide working example of the port forwarding rules. To use WebDAV. This will work out of the box. Just use your OS’s webdav functionality to provide the shared drive interface.

    

    jared

    4 Sep 09 at 11:08 am
22. Does anyone know if the bug listed here: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-2478

    Is fixed in the Ubuntu packaged version?

    

    Bob Brodie

    4 Sep 09 at 5:25 pm
23. From the bug report, this fix was made about a month after this code release.

    

    jared

    4 Sep 09 at 11:21 pm
24. I have followed all the instructions, it worked fine for http://localhost:8080/share but for the alfresco it gives me the following error:

    type Status report

    message

    description The requested resource () is not available.

    Anyone can help me? Thanks

    

    rafael

    6 Sep 09 at 8:04 am
25. “To use CIFS: It requires you to do port forwarding (iptables) since tomcat runs under a non-root user”
    can’t it be done through port/redirectPort properties of a Tomcat Connector ?

    

    Brice

    7 Sep 09 at 6:14 am
26. @Brice: This may work, I haven’t tried using a tomcat connector to proxy requests to a port opened by a web application running inside of tomcat. You still would need to change the user tomcat is running as for tomcat to be able to open/listen on this lower port. Using iptables to push this to the OS to manage these connections allows you to maintain security by separating this redirect and maintaining Alfresco running as a non-root user.

    

    jared

    8 Sep 09 at 10:29 am
27. @rafel Are you able to login to Alfresco Share?

    

    jared

    8 Sep 09 at 10:31 am
28. hiho …
    … thx for the workaround of applying the amps …
    vti-module now succesfully installed and loaded …
    tomcat now is listening on port 7070 …
    but how to connect to the “sharepoint” ?
    http://ip:7070/alfresco won’t work …

    

    elmuchacho

    21 Sep 09 at 7:49 am
29. You will use the address inside of Word, Excel or Powerpoint. Take a look at Managing Alfresco Content from within Microsoft Office. It is available from the Alfresco Content Community. (Registration Required)

    

    jared

    23 Sep 09 at 11:10 am
30. As you know, CIFS isn’t enabled by default. I had a time trying to get it going, so now that I’ve figured it out I’ve written a short How-To on my website
    http://www.davidbaker.cc/?q=node/3

    

    David Baker

    30 Sep 09 at 7:53 am
31. @David This is awesome! I just haven’t had a chance to pull something together for a follow up post. I’ll update the post with a link to your blog. Thanks!

    

    jared

    30 Sep 09 at 10:32 am
32. I too am experiencing the same issue as rafeal reported. Anyone else see this, or have a workaround/resolution?

    Thanks!!

    

    Keith

    30 Sep 09 at 6:19 pm
33. I tried to install this french package, http://forge.alfresco.com/frs/?group_id=14
    but I couldn’t find web-client-config-custom.xml, to activate it, any idea ?

    

    brice

    5 Oct 09 at 3:03 am
34. I had to redeploy last alfresco.war from night builds http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/alfresco-community-war-3.2.zip
    and add /var/lib/tomcat6/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/web-client-config-custom.xml

    

    brice

    5 Oct 09 at 9:28 am
35. I get stuck on “how to connect alfresco using ldap authentication”, following http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Authentication_Subsystems#LDAP
    isn’t tuned for openldap ubuntu implementation !!

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenLDAPServer

    does someone can show the simpliest example ?

    to login alfresco using ldap1/ldap properties/xml files requires to be able to log through phpldapadmin too ?

    here some config I tried :
    /etc/ldap/ldap.conf
    ——————-
    ldap_version 3
    URI ldap://localhost:389
    SIZELIMIT 0
    TIMELIMIT 0
    DEREF never
    BASE dc=my-own-company, dc=com

    leave blank SLAPD_CONF= of /etc/default/slapd

    used dpkg-reconfigure slapd to initiate
    populated with simple ldif, made of uid people
    and add some tunning in
    /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn\=config.ldif
    such as
    olcLogLevel: acl stats

    and
    # Clear text to allow hashing
    password-hash {CLEARTEXT}

    # SASL mappings for md5 digest authentication
    # Extract the user id and use as the search key

    authz-regexp
    uid=([^,]*),cn=digest-md5,cn=auth
    ldap:///dc=my-own-company,dc=com??one?(uid=$1)

    authz-regexp
    uid=([^,]*),cn=my-own-company.com,cn=digest-md5,cn=auth
    ldap:///dc=my-own-company,dc=com??one?(uid=$1)

    should the access part be configured too ?

    

    Brice

    10 Oct 09 at 4:18 am
36. I have the same problem as brice and I wanna to know if adding the web-client-config-custom.xml file from the night builds http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/alfresco-community-war-3.2.zip works well or not ?
    Thanks

    

    RachedTN

    11 Oct 09 at 8:28 am
37. @RachedTN: Yes, it reads local tunning (I was able to change language).

    About Ldap authentication:
    I validate the first step, i.e., getting access to local directory through ldap authentication with apache mechanism.

    AuthBasicProvider ldap
    AuthLDAPBindDN “cn=admin,dc=my-own-company,dc=com”
    AuthLDAPBindPassword “the_admin_password_in_clear_text”
    AuthLDAPURL “ldap://127.0.0.1:389/ou=people,dc=my-own-company,dc=com?uid”
    AuthLDAPGroupAttributeIsDN on
    Require ldap-group cn=a_group_name,ou=groups ,dc=my_own_company,dc=com
    AuthType basic
    AuthName “secret”

    Still not working for alfresco.

    

    Brice

    13 Oct 09 at 8:20 am
38. [...] in a DMS for a while. Alfresco now have native IMAP support. They also offer apt-get installable goodness for januty. It is possible there is some performance issues with the IMAP functionality, but [...]

    

    Alfresco and IMAP — Somewhere out there!

    13 Oct 09 at 3:36 pm
39. Might someone have a successful instructions for setting FTP?
    I am running ipTables and have added a rule:
    iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp –dport 21 -j REDIRECT –to-ports 1121

    Thanks

    

    Chris

    17 Oct 09 at 2:10 am
40. @Chris Have you also updated the file-servers-custom.xml? You need to add an FTP server section changing the port to 1121. See the config settings at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration#FTP_Server_Configuration.

    

    jared

    19 Oct 09 at 10:45 pm
41. FTP Service

    Add the following to alfresco-global.properties

    http://ftp.enabled=true
    http://ftp.port=1121

    You have to select a port greater than 1024.
    Any port less than 1024 is privileged.

    Thanks

    

    Chris

    19 Oct 09 at 11:58 pm
42. Need to change that last post from:

    http://ftp.enabled=true
    http://ftp.port=1121

    to

    http://ftp.enabled=true
    http://ftp.port=1121

    Without the hyperlink

    

    Chris

    20 Oct 09 at 12:00 am
43. You may want to upadte your links from:
    http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration#FTP_Server_Configuration

    Please Note: This article describes configuration methods now outdated in the Alfresco version 3.2 release. For a more up to date description, refer to File Server Subsystem.

    to

    http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Subsystem

    

    Chris

    20 Oct 09 at 12:02 am
44. To change the alfresco port from 8080 to 80 edit the following file:

    sudo vi /etc/tomcat6/server.xml

    before
    <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"

    after
    <Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1"

    restart tomcat

    sudo service tomcat6 restart

    

    Chris

    20 Oct 09 at 4:26 pm
45. @Chris I guess this is what I get for not paying attention. (Switching back and forth between Alfresco Community and Enterprise can have its toll.)

    You are correct Alfresco 3.2 introduces a new Subsystem architecture. So you can modify these values now in the alfresco-global.properties file and not need to make the modifications down in the xml files. (Though the previous config formats are still supported as legacy configuration.)

    

    jared

    20 Oct 09 at 4:57 pm
46. Forget the last port, this next one is better.

    

    Chris

    20 Oct 09 at 4:59 pm
47. hi all

    how upgrade this version to 3.2r ??

    i try just deploy the alfresco.war but didn’t work !

    thanks

    

    kilgad

    30 Oct 09 at 6:03 am
48. @kilgad can you elaborate on the steps you took?

    

    jared

    30 Oct 09 at 4:33 pm
49. it ’s work ! by this step :

    1) stop tomcat
    2) rm -R /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/alfresco
    rm -R /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/share
    3) copy the new file (3.2r) alfresco.war and share.war to /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/
    4) start tomcat

    that’s work but my alfresco.log say nothing. i am searching why ..

    

    kilgad

    31 Oct 09 at 5:08 am
50. I had Alfresco Community working successfully on Ubuntu 9.04 (remarkably easy install, BTW – exactly what’s needed to promote Alfresco).

    Did a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic…” (the “real” production version) yesterday, only to find that Alfresco has disappeared from the Karmic repositories. Grrr…

    Anyone know when an Alfresco package is likely to be released for Ubuntu 9.10? At present this is a deal-breaker for me trying to run Alfresco on Ubuntu.

    Alternatively, is anyone aware of any plans for an Alfresco “live CD”, to ease the process of building Alfresco servers?

    Thanks in advance,
    englishtim

    

    englishtim

    31 Oct 09 at 5:17 am
51. When can we expect a package for Ubuntu 9.10?

    

    Alexander

    1 Nov 09 at 3:16 am
52. Hi jared,

    the update to 9.10 destroyed the installation.

    Are there any plans for 3.2r on 9.10?

    

    friedmar

    2 Nov 09 at 9:14 am
53. Hi Jared,
    can you give someone a prod and get the Karmic partner repository populated please. There is no alfresco-labs in Karmic right now, here is the list of packages in the partner repo:

    http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/partner/binary-i386/Packages

    and here is what it should look like as it is in Jaunty:
    http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/partner/binary-i386/Packages

    

    Alan Bell

    3 Nov 09 at 11:32 am
54. I posted a question about adding a amp file to war file on the alfresco forum. http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21688&p=75515#p75515

    Thanks

    

    Chris

    7 Nov 09 at 3:27 pm
55. @kilgad try removing the alfresco and share directories from under /var/lib/tomcat6/work/Catalina/localhost

    

    jared

    7 Nov 09 at 11:13 pm
56. @Alan, @friedmar, @Alexander, @englishtim: Schedule permitting I hope to be able to start working on upgrading the alfresco-community package this week. There are a few changes in karmic that we need to work through plus some additional new processes that we are adding before the package can be approved for release. It is coming, hopefully sooner than later.

    

    jared

    7 Nov 09 at 11:20 pm
57. @Chris posting response

    

    jared

    7 Nov 09 at 11:54 pm
58. I tried this way of installing Alfresco and hit the following problem. I usually just install tomcat by un taring its directory structure.

    Any idea on what I might try next ?

    Thanks.

    root@ubuntu:~/backups# apt-get install alfresco-community
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.

    Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
    the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
    that package should be filed.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
    alfresco-community: Depends: tomcat6 but it is not installable
    E: Broken packages

    

    Guy Roberts

    18 Nov 09 at 11:13 am
59. Jared, if you need any help testing Alfresco on Karmic do give me a shout, I am keen to help get it available.

    

    Alan Bell

    25 Nov 09 at 10:52 am
60. Setup a Ubuntu 9.10 server, successfully installed alfresco, then promoptly messed it up. I did a clean reinstall and now I get the same error that a previous user got.

    Http Status 404 — The requested resource () is not available.

    Don’t really know what to do.

    

    Mike

    25 Nov 09 at 5:27 pm
61. Any news on this?
    the package is starting to show its age since the new releases come with many bug-fixes and new features!

    

    Tom

    4 Dec 09 at 11:10 am
62. Works well on Jaunty!

    However, you also mention “back ports coming for older Ubuntu releases”.

    Are you planning something for Hardy?

    Many thanx!

    charly

    

    Charly

    19 Dec 09 at 12:38 am
63. Can I upgrade ubuntu’spackage to normal Alfresco’s package 3.2r2 ?

    

    PSA

    20 Dec 09 at 9:43 pm
64. Thanks for the great post. It’s helped me a lot in getting Alfresco running on an Ubuntu 9.10 server.

    “Tomcat is run using a non-root user. This means that Alfresco cannot open the ports needed for CIFS, FTP, or NFS.”

    NFS runs on 2049, right? 2049 > 1024, so it should not require root permissions to run… or am I missing something?

    Obviously, I am missing something, since I am unable to get Alfresco’s NFS server running. I edited the file-servers.xml file to look like:

    … cut …

    8
    50
    3049
    2049

    … cut …

    and file-servers.properties has:

    nfs.enabled=true

    The server is an nfs client, so it already has nfs-common and portmapper installed and running.

    What am I missing? What is the secret sauce to enable NFS?

    Thanks!

    

    Al

    22 Dec 09 at 3:08 pm
65. @guy without more detail this one is hard to diagnose

    

    jared

    4 Jan 10 at 2:31 pm
66. @Alan, I think we finally have this sorted. Our partner team is going to take ownership. I’m looking to get an update on the progress. I’ll post back as soon as I know something.

    

    jared

    4 Jan 10 at 2:34 pm
67. @Mike sounds like parts of alfresco weren’t cleaned up. Looking in the webapps directory and remove the alfresco and share directory. Restart alfresco/tomcat and that should fix this issue.

    

    jared

    4 Jan 10 at 2:38 pm
68. @Tom. Our partner team has taken ownership. This will move it out of the pre-sales team—where it will get the love and attention it really needs and deserves.

    

    jared

    4 Jan 10 at 2:40 pm
69. @Charly Back ports become difficult…It is a hope, but it all depends on how likely the it is to see the dependent packages on older releases Namley: Sun Java 1.6 & Tomcat 6. We currently don’t support openJDK6….even though it may run on it. Early releases of openJDK6 weren’t very promising.

    

    jared

    4 Jan 10 at 2:45 pm
70. @PSA yes it “should” work. The easiest scenario is to take the latest war files apply the RM AMP (if you are looking to use the RM functionality). Otherwise, just take the war files (alfresco.war and share.war) from the latest community release, drop them in, remove the exploded alfresco and share directories and fire it up.

    

    jared

    4 Jan 10 at 2:55 pm
71. @Al Hopefully it is getting plugged into the local portmapper correctly. If Alfresco is coming up all the way without any errors, it maybe a user mapping issue. Take a look at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Subsystem#NFS_Server_Configuration, specifically, the nfs.user.mappings directive. You must preconfigure the list of all users who will be accessing Alfresco via nfs.

    

    jared

    4 Jan 10 at 2:59 pm
72. great! really looking forward to testing it on Karmic, and indeed on Lucid!

    

    Alan Bell

    4 Jan 10 at 3:12 pm
73. Thanks for the info, Jared. Back to testing!

    

    Al

    4 Jan 10 at 3:50 pm
74. The install for this works great but how do you start the virtualization server? There’s no virtual_alf.sh startup script.

    

    Shawn

    8 Jan 10 at 10:30 am
75. After I try upgrade to 3.2r2
    the log file(/var/log/tomcat6/alfresco.log) didn’t describe startup process or anything but it describe in /tmp/tomcat6-temp/alfresco.log only

    

    PSA

    11 Jan 10 at 3:15 am
76. @Shawn: The virtualization preview server is not included in the package. Package is a bit more difficult and not something that has been tackled yet. One thing to note, is that it is no longer a dependency for Alfresco WCM. Check out the wiki page on WCM Preview Service.

    

    jared

    19 Jan 10 at 9:46 am
77. @PSA: A yes. This happens because we modified the log4j.properties files in the ubuntu package from its default of a relative path (relative to where the start is called, in this case the init script uses the /tmp/tomcat6-temp) to an absolute path. You can easily fix this in the war files before you deploy it:

    Unzip the war file in the webapps directory unzip alfresco.war -d alfresco
    open WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties
    Modify the log4j.appender.File.File=alfresco.log line to log4j.appender.File.File=/var/log/tomcat6/alfresco.log
    Repeat for share.war

    

    jared

    19 Jan 10 at 9:56 am
78. I am having trouble with rules. The rules I put onto spaces are not firing. There is nothing in the logs. If I reapply the rules in a space, the files move according to the rules. The files don’t move on their own. I have 56 rules checking for text in the file name, inbound, and running in the background. Has anyone else seen this before?

    

    Chris

    4 Feb 10 at 4:23 pm
79. This inability to fire rules in a space impacting. Has anyone else seen this issue in the alfresco package. Crazy thing is that there is nothing in the logs to support an error.

    

    Chris

    9 Feb 10 at 2:45 am
80. Hello…I’m trying to do this on a new server image (9.10, Intel, x64) but the package doesn’t seem to be available. Is it only available for Ubuntu 9.02?

    

    Tim

    24 Feb 10 at 3:23 pm
81. @Tim Yes, it does not currently work on 9.10. An updated package is currently being worked on, but has not yet been released.

    

    jared

    24 Feb 10 at 3:31 pm
82. I have just completed the install of alfresco community 3.2r2 on 9.10. So far everything works, except that the record management space and dashlet is missing in explorer and space respectively. Any idea as to what I could have done wrong?

    

    courtney

    27 Feb 10 at 1:43 pm
83. [...] inoltre qui di seguito alcuni appunti dal blog di Jared Ottley dal quale ho preso spunto per la realizzazione di questa brevissima guida, appunti che ritengo utili [...]

    

    Alfresco 3.2 come pacchetto su ubuntu server 9.04 e 9.10 via repository « giolek.wordpress.com

    28 Feb 10 at 9:18 am
84. @Courtney: Most likely you haven’t installed the amps that contain the Records Management modules. The “r” signifies that this is the release of Alfresco that supports RM. It does not come pre-installed. Grab the amp files from the community download site. Apply the amps (1 for the alfresco.war file and 1 for the share.war file.) If you have already done this and you still aren’t seeing the RM functionality, you should remove the alfresco and the share directories from under tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost. This will do a bit of cleanup for the updated war file deployments. (I would suggest doing this later either way.)

    

    jared

    28 Feb 10 at 10:08 am
85. Jared, I have installed the amps, and the log tells me that the amps are installed. I am a bit lost, removing the alfresco and the share directories under tomcat/Catalina/localhost, where should I put them, or is it that they are not needed in this location?

    

    courtney

    28 Feb 10 at 11:20 am
86. @courtney: The work directory is where the compiled JSP pages end up. It is a cache. Removing them, just removes the cached pages. Accessing any jsp pages will recompile the page and add it to the cache.

    

    jared

    28 Feb 10 at 11:50 am
87. how do I locate the tomcat/Catalina/localhost, since it is not a directory.

    

    courtney

    28 Feb 10 at 12:47 pm
88. @Courtney: It is a directory and it looks like I put the wrong path tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost … missed the work part

    

    jared

    28 Feb 10 at 4:28 pm
89. jared, I removed the both the alfresco and the share directory, I restarted the alfresco service, but now I am getting an error “safari cannot connect to the server” Is there a workaround?

    

    courtney

    28 Feb 10 at 8:07 pm
90. Jared, ignore my earlier comment, I am now getting the admin page.

    

    courtney

    28 Feb 10 at 8:08 pm
91. Jared, I have executed the instruction as suggested by you. However the RM functionality is still missing from the explorer and the shared site.

    

    courtney

    28 Feb 10 at 8:13 pm
92. @courtney: Try removing the share and alfresco directories from under tomcat/webapps/. (not the .war files) [Stop Alfresco, remove the dirs, start Alfresco] If that does not work, please outline the exact steps you took to install the amp files.

    

    jared

    28 Feb 10 at 8:55 pm
93. Jared, it still did not work. I am going to remove the amps and reinstall it again.

    

    courtney

    1 Mar 10 at 6:31 am
94. Jared, I removed the alfresco.war file and directory in removing the record management amps file. This is after stopping the alfresco service. I then proceed to re-install the amps file, by first copying a back-up of my original alfresco.war file which I had saved when I first install Alfresco Community 3.2r2. I installed the shared record management first by using the following command java -jar alfresco-mmt.jar install alfresco-dod5015-unsupported.amp /opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war. I did used the same command for the shared amps.
    Now when I performed used the command line /opt# java -jar alfresco-mmt.jar list /opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war I get the following results.
    Unable to access jarfile alfresco-mmt.jar

    Am I doing something wrong?

    

    courtney

    2 Mar 10 at 3:13 pm
95. jared, I retracted my steps and got the alfresco going again. However, record management is still missing. I check the install amps module and this is the response:/opt/Alfresco/rm# java -jar alfresco-mmt.jar list /opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war
    Module ‘org_alfresco_module_dod5015′ installed in ‘/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war’
    – Title: DOD 5015 Records Management
    – Version: 1.0
    – Install Date: Tue Mar 02 22:14:24 EST 2010
    – Desription: Alfresco DOD 5015 Record Management Extension
    Module ‘org_alfresco_module_dod5015_share’ installed in ‘/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war’
    – Title: DOD 5015 Records Management Client
    – Version: 1.0
    – Install Date: Tue Mar 02 22:11:59 EST 2010
    – Desription: Alfresco DOD 5015 Record Management Share Extension
    Any idea?

    

    courtney

    2 Mar 10 at 8:26 pm
96. @Courtney: Yes. I see the problem. The second amp: org_alfresco_module_dod5015_share should be applied against the share.war file not the alfresco.war file.

    

    jared

    2 Mar 10 at 8:52 pm
97. Jared, I retraced my steps and placed the correct install in the correct place according to your early comment. I also check the installation and this is what is reported:/opt/Alfresco/rm# java -jar alfresco-mmt.jar list /opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war
    Module ‘org_alfresco_module_dod5015′ installed in ‘/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war’
    – Title: DOD 5015 Records Management
    – Version: 1.0
    – Install Date: Wed Mar 03 15:33:39 EST 2010
    – Desription: Alfresco DOD 5015 Record Management Extension
    root@limcoserver:/opt/Alfresco/rm# java -jar alfresco-mmt.jar list /opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/share.war
    Module ‘org_alfresco_module_dod5015_share’ installed in ‘/opt/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/share.war’
    – Title: DOD 5015 Records Management Client
    – Version: 1.0
    – Install Date: Wed Mar 03 15:31:11 EST 2010
    – Desription: Alfresco DOD 5015 Record Management Share Extension
    I am still not seeing the record management dashlet or space. Need to know am I using the right installable files?

    

    courtney

    3 Mar 10 at 1:51 pm
98. @Courtney: Yes. This is correct. Stop Alfresco. remove the alfresco and share directories from under tomcat/webapps, remove the same directories from under tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost. Start Alfresco. You should now be able to add the RM Dashlet in share and then create RM sites.

    

    jared

    3 Mar 10 at 2:10 pm
99. Jared, thanks much, it worked!!!

    

    courtney

    3 Mar 10 at 2:18 pm
100. @Courtney: Good to hear

     

     jared

     3 Mar 10 at 2:19 pm

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