Step by step installation of Alfresco Community 4.2.c on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS minimal 64bit… please, no bundle!
In this post is shared the installation of Alfresco Community 4.2.c on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS minimal 64bit with Apache Tomcat 7.0.30 and PostgreSQL 9.0.4. The purpose installation is not the bundle installation but a more “robust” for an enterprise configuration. As we like and prefer the installation is a step by step list of commands and tasks… simpler to understand, to do and to test. Hope you’ll be agree.
Before stating…
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get upgrade
- sudo apt-get purge openjdk-*
- adduser alfresco
Enter new UNIX password: alfresco
- adduser postgres
Enter new UNIX password: postgres
- sudo adduser alfresco sudo
- sudo adduser postgres sudo
- su – alfresco
- sudo mkdir -p /opt/alfresco
- sudo chown alfresco:alfresco /opt/alfresco
- sudo mkdir -p /opt/postgresql
- sudo chown postgres:postgres /opt/postgresql
JDK 1.7u7
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
- mkdir -p /opt/alfresco/java
- Get ‘jdk-7u7-linux-x64.tar.gz’ in ‘/opt/alfresco/java’ with owner alfresco (use chown command) and ‘execute’ permits (use chmod command).
- tar xvzf jdk-7u7-linux-x64.tar.gz
- chown -R alfresco:alfresco jdk1.7.0_07
- rm -rf jdk-7u7-linux-x64.tar.gz
- sudo nano /etc/profile.d/java.sh
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/alfresco/java/jdk1.7.0_07 export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin
- Exit
- su – alfresco
- java -version
- javac -version
ImageMagick
- sudo apt-get install ghostscript
- sudo apt-get install imagemagick
- whereis convert
- convert –version
FFMpeg
- sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
- whereis ffmpeg
- ffmpeg
LibreOffice
- sudo apt-get install libreoffice
- whereis soffice
- soffice –version (suggested v3.5)
SWFTools
- sudo apt-get install libart-2.0-2 libjpeg62 libgif-dev
- wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43569089/swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
- chmod a+x swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
- sudo dpkg -i swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
- rm -rf swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
- pdf2swf –version
- whereis pdf2swf
PostgreSQL 9.0.4
- su – postgres
- cd /opt/postgresql
- wget ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.0.4/postgresql-9.0.4.tar.gz
- chmod a+x postgresql-9.0.4.tar.gz
- gunzip postgresql-9.0.4.tar.gz
- tar xvf postgresql-9.0.4.tar
- rm -rf postgresql-9.0.4.tar
- sudo apt-get install gcc libreadline-dev bison flex zlib1g-dev make
- mkdir /opt/postgresql/9.0.4
- cd /opt/postgresql/postgresql-9.0.4/
- ./configure exec_prefix=/opt/postgresql/9.0.4
- make exec_prefix=/opt/postgresql/9.0.4
- sudo make install exec_prefix=/opt/postgresql/9.0.4
- sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /opt/postgresql/9.0.4
- mkdir /opt/postgresql/9.0.4/data
- mkdir /opt/postgresql/9.0.4/log
- nano /home/postgres/.environment-9.0.4
#!/bin/sh
export POSTGRESQL_VERSION=9.0.4
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/postgresql/${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}/lib
export PATH=/opt/postgresql/${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}/bin:${PATH}
- chmod a+x /home/postgres/.environment-9.0.4
- /home/postgres/.environment-9.0.4
- /opt/postgresql/9.0.4/bin/initdb -D /opt/postgresql/9.0.4/data/ –encoding=UNICODE
- nano /home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4
#!/bin/sh -e
# Parameters: start or stop.
export POSTGRESQL_VERSION=9.0.4
# Check parameter.
if [ "$1" != "start" ] && [ "$1" != "stop" ]; then
echo "Specify start or stop as first parameter."
exit
fi
# Add stop switch.
__STOP_SWITCH=""
if [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
__STOP_MODE="smart"
__STOP_SWITCH="-m $__STOP_MODE"
echo "Stop switch is: $__STOP_SWITCH"
fi
# Do it.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/postgresql/${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}/lib
~/.environment-${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}
/opt/postgresql/${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}/bin/pg_ctl
-D /opt/postgresql/${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}/data
-l /opt/postgresql/${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}/log/postgresql.log
$1 $__STOP_SWITCH
- The command ‘~/.environment-${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}’ could not work. Use ‘. .environment-${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}’ instead.
- chmod a+x /home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4
- exit
- sudo nano /etc/init.d/postgresql.9.0.4
#!/bin/sh -e
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting postgres"
/bin/su - postgres -c "/home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4 start"
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping postgres"
/bin/su - postgres -c "/home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4 stop"
;;
* )
echo "Usage: service postgresql-9.0.4 {start|stop}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
- sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/postgresql.9.0.4
- service postgresql.9.0.4 start
Schema creation (user: alfresco, password: alfresco, schema: alfresco)
- su – postgres
- . .environment-9.0.4
- psql
- CREATE ROLE alfresco WITH PASSWORD ‘alfresco’ LOGIN;
- CREATE DATABASE alfresco WITH OWNER alfresco;
- ctrl+d
- psql -U alfresco -d alfresco
- ALTER USER alfresco WITH PASSWORD ‘alfresco’;
- ctrl+d
- exit.
Tomcat 7.0.30
- cd /opt/alfresco
- Download ‘Tomcat 7.0’ -> Quick Navigation -> Archives -> 7.0.30 -> bin -> apache-tomcat-7.0.30.tar.gz
- wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.30/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.30.tar.gz
- chmod a+x apache-tomcat-7.0.30.tar.gz
- tar -xvf apache-tomcat-7.0.30.tar.gz
- rm -rf apache-tomcat-7.0.30.tar.gz
- mv apache-tomcat-7.0.30 /opt/alfresco/tomcat
- /opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
- ps -ef | grep java or http://localhost:8080 on the browser
- /opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
- cp /opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/catalina.properties /opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/catalina.properties.orig
- nano /opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/catalina.properties
- Add ‘shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar’
- cp /opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/server.xml /opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/server.xml.orig
- nano /opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/server.xml
- Add ‘URIEncoding=”UTF-8″‘ to ‘<Connector port=”8080″ protocol=”HTTP/1.1″…’.
- nano /opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/context.xml
- Add:
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SSLAuthenticator" securePagesWithPragma="false" />
Alfresco 4.2.c
- mkdir /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared
- mkdir /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes
- mkdir /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/lib
- mkdir /opt/alfresco/tomcat/endorsed
- wget http://dl.alfresco.com/release/community/build-04576/alfresco-community-4.2.c.zip
- chmod a+x alfresco-community-4.2.c.zip
- sudo apt-get install unzip
- unzip alfresco-community-4.2.c.zip
- mv web-server/endorsed/* /opt/alfresco/tomcat/endorsed
- mv web-server/shared/* /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared
- mv web-server/lib/* /opt/alfresco/tomcat/lib
- mv web-server/webapps/* /opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/
- rm -rf README.txt
- rm -R web-server/
- rm -rf alfresco-community-4.2.c.zip
- nano /opt/alfresco/start_oo.sh
#!/bin/sh -e
SOFFICE_ROOT=/usr/bin
"${SOFFICE_ROOT}/soffice" "--accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" --nologo --headless &
- chmod uga+x /opt/alfresco/start_oo.sh
- /opt/alfresco/start_oo.sh
- killall soffice.bin
- nano /opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh
#!/bin/sh -e
# 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 CATALINA_HOME="$APPSERVER"
# Set any default JVM values
export JAVA_OPTS='-Xms512m -Xmx768m -Xss768k -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:NewSize=256m -server'
export JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Dalfresco.home=${ALF_HOME} -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote"
if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
"${APPSERVER}/bin/startup.sh"
if [ -r ./start_oo.sh ]; then
"${ALF_HOME}/start_oo.sh"
fi
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
"${APPSERVER}/bin/shutdown.sh"
killall -u alfresco java
killall -u alfresco soffice.bin
fi
- chmod uga+x /opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh
- sudo nano /etc/init.d/alfresco
#!/bin/sh -e
ALFRESCO_SCRIPT="/opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh"
if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
su - alfresco "${ALFRESCO_SCRIPT}" "start"
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
su - alfresco "${ALFRESCO_SCRIPT}" "stop"
elif [ "$1" = "restart" ]; then
su - alfresco "${ALFRESCO_SCRIPT}" "stop"
su - alfresco "${ALFRESCO_SCRIPT}" "start"
else
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/alfresco [start|stop|restart]"
fi
- sudo chmod uga+x /etc/init.d/alfresco
- sudo chown alfresco:alfresco /etc/init.d/alfresco
- mkdir /opt/alfresco/alf_data
- cp /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties.sample /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
- nano /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
dir.root=/opt/alfresco/alf_data #IMPORTANT: comment dir.keystore db.username=alfresco db.password=alfresco db.schema.update=true db.driver=org.postgresql.Driver db.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/alfresco index.recovery.mode=AUTO authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm alfresco.rmi.services.host=0.0.0.0
- service alfresco start
- tail -f /opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs/catalina.out -c 10000
Configure optional (but important) services
- service alfresco stop
- nano /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
# # External locations #------------- # OpenOffice ooo.exe=/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin ooo.enabled=false jodconverter.officeHome=/usr/lib/libreoffice jodconverter.portNumbers=8100 jodconverter.enabled=true # ImageMagick installation img.root=/usr/share/doc/imagemagick img.exe=/usr/bin/convert # SWFTools exe swf.exe=/usr/bin/pdf2swf
It appears that there are some missing steps in the PostgreSQL install section. The directories are created, but the unzipped/untarred source code is never moved, built, or installed. The rest of the postgresql steps won’t work until it is installed in the custom /opt/postgresql/X.X.X directory.
Have you installed the sharepoint protocol manually before? That is the next step on my setup so I can test with MS office support for clients.
Once the alfresco server is built, an upgrade/maintenance guide would be really helpful to patch all of the manually installed/configured software and services that aren’t maintained by ubuntu/apt.
I would be happy to test it out and help debug.
Great guide and thanks for the help on your site.
Hi Pat,
Thank you for your feedback.
Why you say “…the unzipped/untarred source code is never moved, built, or installed…”?
If I understand what you say, should be these commands:
./configure exec_prefix=/opt/postgresql/9.0.4
make exec_prefix=/opt/postgresql/9.0.4
sudo make install exec_prefix=/opt/postgresql/9.0.4
Your it’s a good idea to develop the guide to install the sharepoint protocol module and the upgrade/maintenance guide. Why don’t you help me also in the production of the guide? If interested, write me privately.
Sorry – I missed those commands for some reason. I got them working but am double-checking some of the service configurations as my system won’t start it properly – I will have to restore my snapshot and give it another go.
If I get a chance to figure out the SPP module, I will let you know. I’m going to dig into the specific configurations using the bundle and copy them into the custom configuration.
Thanks for the correction.
Hi Francesco,
I folllow up the step by step for my 32 bits ubuntu.
Everything is OK and funtioning at the end of the tutorial but wen I restart the server the postgresql and alfresco services didn’t start automatically also when starting from the console, they always ask me the password.
Any help will be very appreciated 😉
Best Regards,
Elio
Hi Elio,
This is correct.
To start Postgres and Alfresco at reboot you have to set the file in /etc/rc.local with ‘service postgres start’ and ‘service alfresco start’.
Starting it using the console, it’s correct to digit the password.
I hope this help you.
I should make it clear on line
/opt/postgresql/9.0.4/bin/initdb -D /opt/postgresql/9.0.4/data/ –encoding=UNICODE
it used double stript –encoding not -encoding
since i’ve got stuck in this, just to make it clear, cheers
Thank you for the contribution Mahardhik.
Thanks for the doc. Just wondering. Why not use the postgres in the repo why did you have to compile one from source? can this guide work with installing posgres from the repos? I can understand that the version of tomcat shipped with ubuntu is always skewed but never know the same to be the case with postgres
Hi Bigbrovar,
Thank you for the feedback.
You are not the first with this question and of course is a good question.
The answer is my preference for the postgresql’s installation starting from the sources because I feel more “control” over it.
Alfresco works perfectly even with the apt-get installation.
Tanks!!
Notes:
You need execute . .environment-9.0.4 in the postgres home directory (/home/postgres)
after you need initialite the bd with: initdb -D /opt/postgresql/9.0.4/data/ to create the configuration file. (this location is the defined in script)
The logs are crated in /opt/postgresql/9.0.4/log/postgresql.log
Thank you Juan.
hi
i got two error:
1.when i type /home/postgres/.environment,nothing happen.is it normal?even when i am trying to use ‘. .environment-9.0.4’ it isn’t working.
2.when i type psql,i have tis error:
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket “/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432”?
help!
Hi,
1. Yes, it’s ok if you don’t receive any result on the terminal. This is because the script “only” set the environment.
2. Please check you are connected as postgres user when you execute the psql command. Did you init the postgresql database with the initdb command?
Please, let us know how you will solve the problem.
thx for the quick answer!
i am connected as postgres user
when i type /opt/postgresql/9.0.4/bin/initdb -D /opt/postgresql/9.0.4/data/ –encoding=UNICODE
i have this :
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user “postgres”.
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale fr_FR.UTF-8.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8.
The default text search configuration will be set to “french”.
initdb: directory “–encoding=UNICODE” exists but is not empty
If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
the directory “–encoding=UNICODE” or run initdb
with an argument other than “–encoding=UNICODE”.
(sorry for my english,i speak french)
Hi,
Seems you have the postgres database already created.
Before launch the initdb, please remove it (or rename it). 🙂
(don’t worry for your english, I’m italian 😉 )
Hi, I have also this error (psql: could not connect … …PGSQL.5432). With pgAdminIII I can correcty connect to DB but from localhost I always have this error.
Log file is empty.
In postgresql.conf I have:
unix_socket_directories = ‘/opt/postgresql/9.3.4/data’
how?i am new 🙂
🙂
I suggest you to install the pgadmin3 that is a graphical interface to administer postgresql. Is the easiest way. 😉
Hi everyone,
Not sure if it’s only me but, where’s the part where alfresco DB tables were created? I am expecting “an import from dump” step. But there’s no such step! How are you guys able to create all of the system DB schema and tables?
I have installed the Windows variant and its running. Is it Ok if I just create a dump and import from it?
TIA for any info!
– vic
Hi Vic,
During its installation, Alfresco needs only the empty DB schema. During the very first bootstrap it creates everything is requested to work properly.
This is the reason why in the ‘alfresco-global.properties’ file the ‘db.schema.update’ is set to ‘true’. Usually, after the installation with success, this property is set to ‘false’ to prevent from unexpected modification of the DB schema.
Thank you for the question, Vic, because I believe that is a very common doubt.
PS: Of course this is valid for all the supported versions of Operating Systems and Databases.
Hi Francesco,
I’ve followed all the instructions …and managed to set everything up.
However, I get the following error when trying to shutdown tomcat:
alfresco@athena:/opt/alfresco$ /opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/alfresco/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/alfresco/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /opt/alfresco/java/jdk1.7.0_25
Using CLASSPATH: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Jul 16, 2013 5:18:02 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina stopServer
SEVERE: Catalina.stop:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:339)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:528)
at java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:425)
at java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:208)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer(Catalina.java:499)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.stopServer(Bootstrap.java:371)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:453)
Any Advice on how I can solve this?
Hi MorgzIQ,
Seems to be the alfresco schema not reachable.
I suggest you to try to connect from the alfresco user on the server from the command line. I think the connection will be refused and you have to modify the postrgres’s permissions.
Hope this will help you.
Hi Francesco,
Thanks for the prompt response.
I haven’t really used postgresql that extensively…
I used the command below which signed me into the db server:
“psql -U alfresco -d alfresco”
However, I’m a bit sceptical about my “Access privileges” settings…
The following code is a result of a “list” command (so that I can view my access privileges)… Is there anything that I’m missing? (Thanks in advance)
Should my “access privileges” have any values?
alfresco=> list
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
———–+———-+———-+————-+————-+———————–
alfresco | alfresco | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
(4 rows)
alfresco=>
Hi,
Yes, I see that everything is well set.
Did you run the ‘psql’ command as alfresco user in Ubuntu?
Most of the times it’s because the alfresco user that run the service has not the right permits.
If you want to go ahead with the discussion (and I’ll support you), please, move the request into the Alfresco forum and post the thread here… I’ll follow you. 😉
Thank you again MorgzIQ. 🙂
I’m very new to ubuntu, and linux
I’m getting this error w
root@ubuntu:/opt/postgresql/postgresql-9.2.4# /opt/postgresql/9.2.4/bin/initdb -D /opt/postgresql/9.2.4/data/ -encoding=UNICODE
/opt/postgresql/9.2.4/bin/initdb: invalid option — ‘e’
Try “initdb –help” for more information.
do you any idea what’s going on, everything else seemed to go along fine
Nice how to, thanks a lot
Hi Gonçalo,
Thank you for your feedback.
For sure your problem is a typing error in the command.
For example, please check if some spaces are present between the minus and the ‘e’ character.
Hi Franceso,
First of all, let me thank you for this tutorial. It’s really of information that I appreciate.
Please find hereafter some of my comments that I hope will be helpful at least for beginners:
*Before starting*
You wrote: ” su – alfresco ” y suggest ‘su – alfresco’
*PostgreSQL9.0.4*
You wrote:
/opt/postgresql/9.0.4/bin/initdb -D /opt/postgresql/9.0.4/data/ –encoding=UNICODE
If one copy and paste this command into a terminal, it leads to an error. For me it made a new directory called –encoding=UNICODE in /home/postgres/ directory. This is the reason my database did not start at all.
I suggest to replace ‘ –encoding=UNICODE’ with –encoding=UNICODE’
You wrote: CREATE ROLE alfresco WITH PASSWORD ‘alfresco’ LOGIN;
I suggest to replace ‘alfresco’ with ‘alfresco’ … it looks the same but it is not. It’s easy to see the difference when you copy and past into a terminal. Beginner who copy and paste the command into a terminal will have errors without this correction.
You wrote: ALTER USER alfresco WITH PASSWORD ‘alfresco’;
Same comment replace ‘alfresco’ with ‘alfresco’
*Tomcat 7.0.30*
You wrote : Add ‘URIEncoding=”UTF-8″‘ to ‘<Connector port=”8080″ protocol=”HTTP/1.1″
I suggest to replace ”UTF-8″ with "UTF-8" and ”8080″ with "8080"
Last comment: My Catalina.out mentioned that some office process couldn't start .. this was due to the fact that in the the owner of the file /home/alfresco/.config was root and not alfresco. I changed the owner back to alfresco (chown -vR) and the process could start properly.
Now I could manually install and start alfresco server properly thanks to you tutorial. Thanks again.
Jean-Pierre Buttet
Greetings from Switzerland.
be careful, looks like the website doesn’t display correctortely the characters like ‘ or ” or — that are used in the commands. If one copy and paste these commands into a terminal, its better to check those characters. For instance if you write a double – the website displays one long – instead.
Best regards.
JP Buttet
Hi Jean-Pierre,
Thank you for your feedback.
I’m sure that the junior skilled audience will definetely appreciate your comments.
Unfortunately, as you can see, wordpress.com does not permit a full control and I plan to move the blog in a private installation to solve even those problems.
Until then, you comments will help for sure… thanks again.
Hi Francesco,
Thanks for your really-useful Alfresco coverage.
What ports on the IP address does one need to open in the firewall for everything to work OK? (Notably, for the SharePoint extension to work.)
Hi,
Thank you for the feedback.
In this tutorial Alfresco runs on the port 8080 but you can easily manage this from the configuration files.
This configuration causes the url to be http://myserver.com:8080/share so I always configure this from the server using those commands.
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 80 -j REDIRECT –to-ports 8080
sudo sh -c “iptables-save > /etc/iptables.rules”
sudo nano /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/iptablesload
#!/bin/sh
iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.rules
exit 0
sudo chmod +x /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/iptablesload
With this configuration, the used port is the 80 (the default one). This configuration causes the url to be http://myserver.com/share, more standard.
Finally, in your firewall you can open the port 80 to make everything work correctly.
Hope this help.
Huge compliments on this tutorial. I just executed the entire process and have nothing but praise and appreciation.
I would like to ask you for one more thing, though, a final startup and demonstration correct function section.
As it is, the instructions end with alfresco stopped, tomcat stopped, postgresql stopped. I’m embarrassed to say, I don’t have any idea what it takes to get the whole thing running. I don’t know how to get alfresco and this setup, to say, Hello World.
In the meantime, though, thank you very much for this. It was clearly took a lot of work and generosity.
best,
TQ White II
Hei, thank you for your (appreciated) feedback.
To make everything run and have a first approach you can execute ‘service alfresco start’.
After that, you can execute ‘tail -f /opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs/catalina.out’ to see the process running until the final message is shown (you recognize because will be something like ‘INFO: Server startup in XXXX ms’).
Please, check you have no errors in the log because otherwise I suggest you to understand, solve and remove them.
If everything is correct, Alfresco is up and running and you can access to the ‘http://localhost:8080/share’ to start to use it.
Hope this help.
Let me add to your final startup note…
Step One: log in as user ‘alfresco’
Step Two: service alfresco start
Verify with: tail -f /opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
(I know. I’m an idiot but I was logged in as root and the errors do not make the solution obvious.)
Thanks a ton, though. Your instruction was very helpful.
You are welcome… 🙂
Beware of executing Alfresco as root… this causes lots of problems because generates some misconfigurations in the server. 😉
Thank you again for your feedback.
Hello! Francesco, thank you very much for this tutorial.
Now i have a problem installing postgresql. I’ve followed all the steps but, when i try to start postgresql with “service postgresql.9.0.4 start” the terminal return me:
Starting postgres
/home/postgre/postgresql-9.0.4: 7: /home/postgre/postgresql-9.0.4: if[start : not found
Specify start or stop as first parameter
I’ve checked all path, they are correct. Is there some missing part in the postgresql configuration like a start switch or the problem is caused by something else?
Ciao Tiziano,
The problem you have seems to be in the script syntax. In particular before an ‘if’ command.
Please, double check the content of the ‘/home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4’ script.
Hope this will help you.
Thank you very much! You are very helpfull! 🙂
Thank you for the feedback.
I executed your script from root on a freshly created (DigitalOcean) server instance. When I started alfresco, I got severe errors that I fixed by changing permissions and ownerships in a few places. IE,
chown alfresco:alfresco /opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps
chown alfresco:alfresco /opt/alfresco/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost
chmod 777 /opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/Catalina
I actually tried ownership on the last item, too, and it did not work. That makes me think it should be owned by someone I don’t know.
Once done, I got no more severe errors but it appears that the startup is hung. The last message that shows in the log is:
Oct 28, 2013 11:53:02 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
I suspect that whatever was trying to happen next tried to access something but wasn’t smart enough to issue a severe warning.
I am going to execute your procedure from the alfresco account since changing to that ownership helped. That’s going to take some time and, considering that you’re on the other side of the planet, I thought I’d see if any of this information inspired you with advice.
As always, thanks for your help here. It’s a very generous thing to do.
Sincerely,
TQ White II
Hi TQ,
Your is always a problem of permits on the folders or of the executing account.
I recommend you to follow the tutorial in terms of users used for the execution of the several commands because this is very important.
Hope this help you.
Definitely it was permissions. Whatever it is about the WordPress and hyphens screwed me good on the “su – alfresco”.
I’m still not up (listeners trouble) so I may ask again after I’ve debugged for awhile but, thanks.
New detail from doing it all again.
I am using copy/paste for most of these commands. When I copied
su – alfresco
My shell replied with:
Unknown id: –
I don’t think I noticed the error before. When I typed it by hand, it worked fine.
Thank you for the information.
Something else told me about this issue and this is because of wordpress… unfortunately I cannot do nothing to avoid this.
Francesco, thank you for a very thorough step by step.. Had some trouble with permissions but now it seems running perfect. Only problem is I can’t login as admin… Any suggestions? I’ve tried admin, admin still, nothing.
Hi Pedro,
Thank you for the feedback.
Unfortunately, even if you see the login page it doesn’t means that Alfresco is working correctly.
Infact, you can’t login into the system because Alfresco doesn’t run correctly.
In these cases you can look at the log with the command:
tail -f -c 10000 /opt/alfresco/tomcat/log/catalina.out
And I suppose there you will find many SEVERE errors inside.
Pay a lot of attention to the permissions because they are always a reason of problems.
Hope this will help you.
Do you have a startup script for this installation? Mine is running very nicely, but I’d prefer everything to auto start on boot.
Hi Martin,
Are you talking about the script that starts Alfresco at bootstrap?
If yes, you can add the lines below to the ‘rc.local’ file:
service postgresql.9.0.4 start
service alfresco start
Alternatively you can create a new file named ‘/etc/init.d/rebootAlfresco.sh’ with inside the same two lines described before.
hallo, Francesco …. I am henry from Indonesia. I have studied the alfresco of July 2013. But I’ve installed from the bundled version 4.2.c at 12:04 ubuntu server 64-bit. Once I found this blog, and before I follow this guide, is for version alfresco-community-4.2.c.zip can be changed with version 4.2.e??? thanks … cheers (sory my bad english)
Hi Henry,
Your is a good question!
The installation process of Alfresco 4.2.e is the same, so you can follow this post. For sure the versions of the packages are changed but I think this you will not find some kind of problems.
I would like to update this post to the newest Alfresco version… I hope in the next future.
Cheers.
hi Fran,… i’ve got stuck in here ….
alfresco@develop-01:~$ service postgresql.9.0.4 start
Starting postgres
Password:…..
/home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4: 22: /home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4: ..environment-9.0.4: not found
nano /home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4 :
# Do it.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/postgresql/${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}/lib
..environment-${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}
/opt/postgresql/${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}/bin/pg_ctl
is this oke ?? ( ..environment-bla bla bla bla ) ? why ..environment-9.0.4: not found ??? thanks Fran
Hi gopey77,
Pay attention to the space between the two dots in the ‘. .environment-9.0.4’ command.
thank a lot Fran,… i’ll try this at home….
Hai Fran,… did you ever been installed your own SSL Certificate (like geotrust, comodo, verisign, or etc..) in alfresco ???… how can i get to this step by step tutorial for install and configuration ???? thanks a lot… sory my bad english. thanks again.
Yes, sure.
It’s easy: I suggest you to install the SSL Certificate in the Apache Servlet as usual. You can find several tutorial in internet to understand how.
I hope this will help you.
Thx Francesco! After 5 Days with Different Docu´s i have finally found one which is working! Greets from Germany 😉
Thank you Andre!
Keep calm and use Alfresco. 😉
Greetings from Italy. 🙂
Hi There
I am using ubuntu server 12.04, 64 bit.
I assume that all of this will work on my, 64 bit, version.
But I cannot install the i386 version of swftools. Is there a url I could use to get a 64 bit version, from the same launchpad librarian directory?
Hi Matthew,
The problem you have is the most common because swftools are quite old releases.
Always check the pdf2swf executable is installed.
Coming to your question; I always use the link you read in the article. An alternative is to search in google.
If you will find something that works, please share.
Hi Francesco !
I followed the steps and it have a happy end 😉 so my alfresco is running but…
When I rebooted the server the postgres and alfresco services di not start automatically also when starting from the console, they always ask me the password.
There is a way to make the service start at boot time and they do not ask for password ?
Any help will be very appreciated !
Best regards and many thanks…
Hi Francesco !
Problem solved :-)) I added a LSB init script to alfresco and postgresql to start on init and run a update-rc.d.
Thanks again for the tutorial !
Regards,
Elio
Good job Elio!
Hi Francesco !
I need to secure your (mine too?) alfresco installation with a self signed ssl cert.
Could you put me some guidelines to make it happens ? May be you have done before and wrote some notes about it 😉
Thanks a lot !
Regards,
Elio
You have to add the SSL cert to the tomcat application server in the way you usually do it for other web app.
Hi Francesco !
I did the SSL integration and after that I can login to https://IP/alfresco but not to https://IP/share (the login page appear but after submit the admin credentials I get Server Error page)
Do you have any clue, advice, tip, solution ?
Any help will be appreciated !
Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,
Elio
Hi Elio,
I have installed SSL several times without the problem you have.
HTTPS is not related to the path alfresco or share.
I suggest you to check the alfresco-global.properties file in the share…. params.
Take a look here: http://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/repository/config/alfresco-global.properties.sample
Hi Francesco,
Many thanks for your great tutorials both on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 64bit and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS minimal 64bit. Everything is working just fine apart for a problem I had on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS minimal 64bit with “File Server Errors – BindException: Permission denied” which I fixed by following the related troubleshooting on https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Troubleshooting.
Kind regards,
G.
Ciao Giuseppe,
Thank you for the feedback.
After some trouble, I did it! Thanks Francesco 🙂
Some erros are showing up on the log, I’ll study and comment about it later.
Hi Francesco,
heavily inspired by your great tutorial, but for rpm-based distributions only (for the moment), I make an Ansible playbook to install an alfresco environment, no bundle 🙂
It’s currently under testing and debugging but it could works, available on Github at: https://github.com/libersoft/ansible-alfresco
Best regards.
Grande Lorenzo!
(this is an italian comment)
Let me know when it will be released and I’ll write a post on it.
I would like to use it! 😉
Hi,
I have read somewhere that Lucene is a better choice against solr and that this installation mode is more stable.
I have installed Alfresco yet with all in bundle .deb file but I’m trying to reinstall following these instructions.
Is there a tutorial about installation of Lucene and integratation of Ms Office?
Thank you (for this tutorial too)
Hi elvis,
This tutorial include the installation with lucene.
If you want to change the engine you can follow lots of tutorials, for example this: http://deepak-keswani.blogspot.it/2012/12/how-to-disable-solr-enable-lucene-on.html
The integration with MS Office is using the Sharepoint protocol.
Cheers.
I will try (I’m not a programmer).
Many thanks, for now…
Ciao,
I’m installing all required programs but FFMpeg is deprecated…
Ciao Elvis,
Let’s wait the answer from Alfresco on that topics. 😉
If you find some kind of news, let us know.
Continuing installation I had same difficulties with swftools. I solved it installing from synaptic. I hope it isn’t a problem but… I don’t know where found pdf2swf…
And now I’m stopped at ./configure for installing Postgresql after download and unzip tar.gz file (version 9.3.4).
If I install with standard procedure the default intallation directory is on /etc… Is it good too?
Synaptic? But Alfresco requires FFMpeg… don’t worry about that.
if I type:
root@debian:/opt/postgresql/9.3.4# ./configure exec_prefix=/opt/postgresql/9.3.4
I obtain:
bash: ./configure: File o directory non esistente
Why? (sto diventando matto!)
Yahooooo!!! I succeeded….
About Postgresql I have copied contents of the unzipped directory of postgresql in the /opt/postgresql/9.3.4 because command “./configure exec_prefix=/opt/postgresql/9.3.4” wasn’t able to try files: they was stored in /opt/postgresql/9.3.4/postgresql-9.3.4.
I don’t know if I was clear…
🙂 Good job!
Hi to all,
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🙁 This is the error that appear when I try to stop service Alfresco. Any idea about to solve this?
the string is vanish in the previous post! It was:
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Initial heap size set to a larger value than the maximum heap size
Hi Elvis,
Probably you are running a virtual machine with Alfresco on board.
Probably the memory of the virtual machine is not enough… I suggest you to give at least 2Gb to the virtual machine.
It’s correct, but virtual machine have 4096MB of ram memory…
And now, others problems:
community@SRV005:~$ sudo service alfresco stop
Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/alfresco/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/alfresco/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /opt/alfresco/java/jdk1.8.0
Using CLASSPATH: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
apr 11, 2014 6:36:16 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester fatalError
GRAVE: Parse Fatal Error at line 143 column 1: Il contenuto non è consentito nella sezione finale.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/server.xml; lineNumber: 143; columnNumber: 1; Il contenuto non è consentito nella sezione finale.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:203)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:441)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:368)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1436)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$TrailingMiscDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1433)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:606)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:848)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:777)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:649)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1457)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer(Catalina.java:434)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.stopServer(Bootstrap.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:487)
apr 11, 2014 6:36:16 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina stopServer
GRAVE: Catalina.stop:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/server.xml; lineNumber: 143; columnNumber: 1; Il contenuto non è consentito nella sezione finale.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1239)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:649)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1457)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer(Catalina.java:434)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.stopServer(Bootstrap.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:487)
Impossibile trovare l’utente alfresco
Impossibile trovare l’utente alfresco
community@SRV005:~$
On installation I have replace name user alfresco with community.
Hi Fransesco,
I am having a problem when i try to run the initdb command:-
/opt/postgresql/9.0.
the system returns with this error message : no such file or directory
Hi Salman,
Please check the postgres folder because probably you are using a different version of postgres and so… a different folder.
Hi Francesco,
Thanks for the tutorial, I got a clean installation of Alfresco :).
I have a question: using this same installation, How to create and deploy a new workflow in Alfresco Share?
Greetings,
Pablo.
Hi Pablo,
You can reach your goal following a general tutorial or process.
For example, you can follow this: http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.enterprise.doc%2Ftopics%2Fwf-howto.html
Hi Fransesco,
I followed your guide to install alfresco. Now I would like to upgrade to alfresco 4.2.f (from 4.2.c)
What is the best way to do this?
Hi Bauke,
Congratulations!
To upgrade the community version: stop alfresco, replace the alfresco.war and share.war files with the new version, start alfresco again… and pray! 🙂
Of course the upgrade process could not be so easy but I suggest you to try and take a look around in the web if fails.
Good luck!
PS: If your goal is to have the installation of the v4.2.f, you can follow the tutorial directly for the 4.2.f version. The tasks are the same and only the versions of the modules changes. 😉
Hi Fransesco,
I followed your install guide and now I would like to upgrade alfresco to version 4,2,f. What is the best way to do this?
Thank you!
Hi francesco ! first of all :thank for this great guide.
Actually I have to deploy alfresco on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.
But with the pdf2swf package i found tfhis error:
Preparing to unpack swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_i386.deb …
Unpacking swftools (0.9.0-0ubuntu2) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of swftools:
swftools depends on libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.18).
swftools depends on libc6 (>= 2.7).
swftools depends on libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0).
swftools depends on libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1).
swftools depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1).
swftools depends on libgif4 (>= 4.1.4).
swftools depends on libjpeg62.
swftools depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1).
swftools depends on zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4).
swftools depends on gsfonts.
dpkg: error processing package swftools (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
swftools
I’ve try to install all dependencies one by one wit apt but no rfessult:( could you gvive me an advice?
Hi Nguyen,
With Ubuntu 14.04 I usually use ‘swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb’ downloaded from internet. Prerequisite for the installation, the ‘libjpeg62’ package you can install using apt-get.
I hope this will help you.
Francesco, I’ve been going over quite a few places for installing Alfresco manually. Yours is by far the most digestible. However, I’m curious of a couple of choices in your tutorial.
1. What reason do you choose Oracle’s JDK over OpenJDK? Are there specifics?
2. What reason do you choose PostgreSQL over MySQL?
3. I noticed that you’re installing the entire LibreOffice (seemingly so anyway) and was wondering if there are specific components that I could install rather than the whole suite to save space?
4. Is it possible to NOT have Tomcat under /opt/alfresco? I’d like to know if it’s alright to use a pre-existing Tomcat install?
Thank you Eric for the feedback.
Coming to your questions: the most parts of the questions could be answered taking a look at the Alfresco release note (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Community_4.2.f_Release_Notes) but I’ll reply you more strictly.
1. No, it’s my choice. Alfresco does not requests JDK of specific version.
2. Alfresco Community is certified on both but, as you know, PostgreSql is considered today the “pure” open source project. 😉
3. I did not test a subset of the LibreOffice installation.
4. Yes, you need a tomcat not a tomcat installed in specific place. Of course I suggest you to pay attention to the specific customizations of the tomcat you already have. In some cases could be not compatible with the Alfresco requests.
Cheers.
Wonderful response, Francesco. I have to agree with you on PostgreSQL.
HI, please help me out with this error
Starting PostgreSQL 9.3 database server * The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:
2014-07-14 14:24:32 IST FATAL: could not access private key file “/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key”: Permission denied
Hi Bhupathyap,
It’s a problem of permissions.
Try to take a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12087683/postgresql-wont-start-server-key-has-group-or-world-access
I hope this help you.
Another ERROR………………………. 🙁 🙁
Helpppppppppppppppp
postgres@foss-X550CA:/opt/postgresql/postgresql-9.0.4$ service postgresql.9.0.4 start
Starting postgres
Password:
server starting
postgres@foss-X550CA:/opt/postgresql/postgresql-9.0.4$ su – postgres
Password:
postgres@foss-X550CA:~$ . .environment-9.0.4
postgres@foss-X550CA:~$ psql
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket “/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432”?
postgres@foss-X550CA:~$
Hi, I do so…
1)su – postgres
2)service postgresql.9.3.4 start
3). .environment-9.3.4
4)psql
i m using ubuntu 14.04
when i try to install SWFTools i got dependencies error.but the thing is when i use apt-get i was informed that a latest version is already installed
Error message as follows
alfresco@foss-X550CA:~$ sudo dpkg -i swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
Selecting previously unselected package swftools.
(Reading database … 213556 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_i386.deb …
Unpacking swftools (0.9.0-0ubuntu2) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of swftools:
swftools depends on libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.18).
swftools depends on libgif4 (>= 4.1.4).
swftools depends on libjpeg62.
swftools depends on gsfonts.
dpkg: error processing package swftools (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
swftools
And thanks for this famous tutorial………..
Hi Bhupathy,
Please take a look before in the page, the same problem of ‘Nguyen Tuan Phong’.
I hope this help you.
Thanks you soooo much for this amazing tutorial, i had the problem Nguyen Tuan Phong had , but now i’m facing other problem when i type “pdf2swf –version” it says
“NOTICE Output filename not given. Writing to –version.swf
Error: Couldn’t open file ‘–version’
xpdf reports document as broken.
ERROR Couldn’t open –version”
and when i type whereis pdf2swf it says
“pdf2swf: /usr/bin/pdf2swf /usr/bin/X11/pdf2swf /usr/share/man/man1/pdf2swf.1.gz” is really a problem? and how to fix it?.
merci d’avance.
Hi,
Thank you for the feedback.
The pdf2swf is used to preview the document with the flash addon.
If you don’t install it, Alfresco will work in every case but without the flash preview.
Hi Francesco,
I saw your response about Vic’s comments above, so based on that, there is no way to recreate alfresco db tables unless we script all those tables manually.
Hi Moise,
Alfresco creates (and updates) the tables for you.
I don’t understand in detail your goal but the development of your personal script is not a good idea.
I hope this is the answer to your question.
Hi Francesco, thank you very much for this tutorial.
I have a problem when starting postgresql by executing “service postgresql.9.0.4 start”.
I get the following error message in return:
Starting postgres
/home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4: 7: /home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4: [start: not found
/home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4: 22: .: .environment-9.0.4: not found
Can you please kindly help me out with this?
Thank you in advance.
Hi Wong,
The message is clear: the script is not able to find the “.environment-9.0.4”.
Please, double check the script exists and it’s executable.
I hope this help you.
Hi Francesco
Thank you for the tutorial. Would you mind explaining why it’s better to follow your tutorial than installing the wizzard? What changes?
Thanks
Hi,
Thank you for your feedback.
This strategy to install Alfresco is not “better” than the wizard it’s only a little bit more “under your control”. Why? Because you are going to install and control separately each module, software, dependency. That’s all.
Someone says it’s the wizard is developed directly from the vendor so it’s preferable. Someone says that with the wizard you use a sort of black box that you don’t know how to maintain in detail.
Which one do you prefer? 🙂
thank you…. Do you know of an easy to follow tutorial to install the whole Pentaho suite. There are several components and I can only find the odd tutorial to install a single component but not all of them. Tx
Pentaho is a suite, not a single product so you have to install all and only the application you need. I can suggest you those tutorial for BI Server and PDI:
http://fcorti.com/2014/01/07/how-to-install-pentaho-business-analytics-platform-5/
http://fcorti.com/2014/01/03/how-to-install-pentaho-data-integration-5-kettle/
Once again, thank you so much
Hi Francesco Corti ! Thank you very much this information. I dont know alfresco download.
How is download? I dont execute! Can you help me please?
What is means following:
Get ‘jdk-7u7-linux-x64.tar.gz’ in ‘/opt/alfresco/java’ with owner alfresco (use chown command) and ‘execute’ permits (use chmod command).
Hi Mehmet,
To understand how to install java you can follow this easy tutorial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWTN5uDCkag
Hi!
I’m stuck in the same part as another commment,
I replace this:
~/.environment-${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}
With this
~/.environment-${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}
In: /home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4
But I still have the following problem:
postgres@me:~$ nano /home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4
postgres@me:~$ service postgresql.9.0.4 start
Starting postgres
Contraseña:
/home/postgres/postgresql-9.0.4: 22: .: .environment-9.0.4: not found
postgres@me:~$
I went to check that, and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong
postgres@me:~$ ls -lrat
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 abr 17 10:43 ..
-rw-r–r– 1 postgres postgres 675 abr 17 10:43 .profile
-rw-r–r– 1 postgres postgres 8445 abr 17 10:43 examples.desktop
-rw-r–r– 1 postgres postgres 3486 abr 17 10:43 .bashrc
-rw-r–r– 1 postgres postgres 220 abr 17 10:43 .bash_logout
-rwxrwxr-x 1 postgres postgres 170 abr 17 12:25 .environment-9.0.4
drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 4096 abr 17 12:27 .
-rwxrwxr-x 1 postgres postgres 674 abr 17 12:42 postgresql-9.0.4
postgres@me:~$
Could you pleas help??
Thanks.
PS:
postgres@me:~$ cat .environment-9.0.4
#!/bin/sh
export POSTGRESQL_VERSION=9.0.4
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/postgresql/${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}/lib
export PATH=/opt/postgresql/${POSTGRESQL_VERSION}/bin:${PATH}
postgres@me:~$
Hi Ana,
I suggest you to check the file’s permits or try with and absolute path (/home/postgres/…/environment-9.0.4).