Can't access Shared Admin Tools

[hussain]

I just started with Alfresco Community 6.1.2. Installed it on a fresh VM running CentOS 7. I differed from the instructions in Tomcat installation; instead of downloading it, I used

yum install tomcat

. Then I installed MariaDB, created a database, etc.

After a couple of small hiccups, I got Tomcat and Alfresco to start. I opened the page at http://<servername>:8080 which showed a menu with 2 choices. I selected "Alfresco Repository" which took me to http://<servername>:8080/alfresco and showed 11 choices. I selected "Alfresco Admin Console". This gave a basic authentication popup and I used admin/admin there.

Now I see the system summary.

This is where I am at the moment. According to the documentation, there should be an option here to show the Shared Admin Tools

Either something's missing from the docs or I missed some step.

[hussain]

Ah! It seems the URL I used is not the one; it should be http://<servername>:8080/share

Now I see the message: "Alfresco is running without Share Services."

Let's see how to deal with that...

[fedorow]

Check version of Share Services module installed in alfresco.war and version of your Share application share.war. It should be the same.

p.s. why don't you use docker?

[hussain]

Thanks for the reply.

Check version: How?

Apparently the share module isn't installed. Going thru the docs (https://docs.alfresco.com/5.1/tasks/simpleinstall-enterprise-lin-share.html#simpleinstall-enterprise...) doesn't appear quite right as this link is for version 5, not 6.

Docker... yeah. I'm not quite sure I know what docker is

The installation instructions I followed were from https://docs.alfresco.com/community/concepts/install-community-intro.html

[fedorow]

Do you see Share Dashboard? Where did you see see the message: "Alfresco is running without Share Services."? Can you give a screenshot?

Try clear web browser data and reload http://xxxx:8080/share/

[fedorow]

Check alfresco.log and share.log files. It gives you some additional information.

[hussain]

On the http://xxxx:8080/share, I see it on the top:

Alfresco and share logs... I don't see anything significant there.

Let's see if I can attach them here... No. Don't see an option to attach.

alfresco.log is here: https://file.io/YZjnYk 

share.log is here: https://file.io/YehRKM 

Does installing version 6.1.2 install the share service? The docs are silent on that.

The distribution file alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-6.1.2-ga does contain ./amps/alfresco-share-services.amp. Do I need to install it manually into Tomcat? How?

Appreciate your help.

[hussain · Accepted solution]

Eureka!

The distribution.zip contains share.amp but does not install it. It has to be installed manually as per https://docs.alfresco.com/6.1/tasks/amp-install.html

In my environment, I had to give the command:

java -jar /root/alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-6.1.2-ga/bin/alfresco-mmt.jar install /root/alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-6.1.2-ga/amps/alfresco-share-services.amp /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/alfresco.war -verbose

The message is now gone from the top, so hopefully everything should work. 

There should have been a link somewhere instead of having to search all the docs.

[fedorow]

What you see on the http://xxx:8080/share is Share.

I cant get yours log files. Error 404 page not found. Upload logs again.