Installing and Configuring Alfresco Community Edition 3.2

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Installing and Configuring Alfresco Community Edition 3.2

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Table of Contents


Before Installing


Installation Files


SharePoint Protocol Support


Alfresco WCM


Alfresco Web Service Client


Alfresco SDK and APIs


Extensions


Microsoft Office Add-ins


Software Requirements


Installing a JDK


Verifying the JAVA_HOME environment variable location


In the file {JBOSS_HOME}\bin\run.conf, update the JAVA_HOME variable to be the folder that JDK was installed into.


Installing MySQL


thumb|alt=Alfresco Schema|Alfresco Schema Creation
thumb|alt=Create New User|Alfresco New User
thumb|alt=Updating Privileges |Alfresco Updating Privileges
When deploying Alfresco to utilize MySQL as its datastore, there are 2 required downloads to achieve this type of environment.


  1. MySQL Community Server - The more recent versions should suffice.
  2. MySQL JDBC Driver - This JAR file should be copied to {JBOSS_HOME}\server\default\lib.

Another useful tool is MySQL Administrator. Instead of using command line entries, one can use this graphical user interface to manage both local and remote instances of MySQL.

Once MySQL is installed, the user and database will need to be created.

Screenshots on the right depicts creating a new schema, user and assigning privileges.












Installing JBoss


  1. Download JBoss Application Server from JBoss Downloads.
  2. Expand the zip file to the target server. (i.e. c:\jboss). Set your environment variable, JBOSS_HOME, to be the location that the zip file was expanded to. For example, if the zip file was expanded to c:\jboss, then the environment variable should be look as such:

    JbossHomeEnvironmentVariable.png




Configuration Changes


  1. Change the following in file {JBOSS_HOME}\server\default\deploy\ejb3.deployer\META-INF\persistence.properties:
    From:
    hibernate.bytecode.provider=javassist

    To:
    hibernate.bytecode.provider=cglib



  2. Optional: Adding
    set NOPAUSE=true
    to the beginning of {JBOSS_HOME}\bin\run.bat and {JBOSS_HOME}\bin\shutdown.bat will remove the need to 'Press any key to continue . . . '

JAR Files


If MySQL is the target database, then perform the following:


  1. Download MySQL Driver from MySQL Downloads.
  2. Save the driver into the {JBOSS_HOME}/server/default/lib folder. For any other application server, save the JDBC driver in a folder that is in the application server classpath.

Installing Alfresco


Windows


Full installation


Excluding JDK


Alfresco Tomcat bundle


Redhat Linux


Alfresco Tomcat bundle


Mac


Alfresco WAR on any platform


Alfresco components


Alfresco WCM


OpenOffice


After downloading the appropriate version from OpenOffice Downloads, it needs to be installed. Where it is installed is important for a couple reasons:


  1. Must be accessible from Alfresco deployment application server.
  2. Application server must have permission to execute the binaries.

After installing OpenOffice, you will need to inform Alfresco the OpenOffice installation information. The best way to do it is to add the properties as follows in your alfresco.war\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco-global.properties file:

# Path to OpenOffice executable
ooo.exe={ABSOLUTE OPEN OFFICE INSTALLATION PATH}/program/soffice

# Path to store OpenOffice User information
ooo.user=${dir.root}/oouser

ImageMagick


Alfresco Community Edition 3.2, like past editions, require binaries of ImageMagick. Binaries can be downloaded from ImageMagick's Download page. Once the proper version has been downloaded, it needs to be installed where Alfresco has the accessibility and permission to execute the convert utility.

When running in a Windows environment, set the environment variable 'PATH' as such:

ImageMagickPathVariable.png

This value assumes that ImageMagick was installed at this location.

Lastly, there is a property img.root in the repository.properties file. One can override this value by use of the file alfresco.war/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco-global.properties. Adding an img.root entry with the aforementioned location (c:/ImageMagick) will allow Alfresco to execute the convert binary.

More info at ImageMagick Configuration.


Microsoft Office add-ins


Flash Player


SWF tools


SWF tools can be downloaded from the SWFTools Downloads. Once the appropriate version has been downloaded, it will need to be installed so that Alfresco has access and permission to execute the pdf2swf.exe binary. This utility is used to display PDF documents in a Flash application when viewing the document detail in Alfresco Share.


Once installed, override the swf.exe property defined in repository.properties with an entry in alfresco.war/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco-global.properties file. For example if SWFTools was installed in C:\SWFTools then the entry in alfresco-global.properties should have this entry:
swf.exe=C:/SWFTools/pdf2swf

TinyMCE language packs


Alfresco Module Package (AMP)


Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol Support


Running Alfresco


Starting and stopping the Alfresco server


Starting Alfresco Share


Starting Alfresco Explorer


Starting and stopping the Alfresco virtualization server


Starting and stopping the deployment engine


Configuring Alfresco


Configuration overview


Global properties


Upgrading configurations to Community Edition 3.2


Modifying Spring bean definition files


Modifying system configuration files


Customizing individual configuration items


Customizing Alfresco Share


Configuring databases


Out of the box, Alfresco 3.2 Community Edition has been configured as follows:


db.name=alfresco
db.username=alfresco
db.password=alfresco

These values have been defined in alfresco.war\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\repository.properties. Additionally, out-of-box, Alfresco is also configured to deploy to MySQL. This means you will have to create a catalog, user and password using 'alfresco'. Should these values require something different, customization configuration files will be needed as part of this deployment. The user that was created for the instance of Alfresco should have all permissions assigned until needed to lock down security (for production mode).


Configuring core services


Tuning the JVM


Command line configuration


Customizing dir.root


Configuring the repository cache


Configuring extended services


Adding a MIME type


Configuring metadata extraction


Versioning


Setting up replication


Configuring the connection pool


Customizing content transformations


Configuring Alfresco subsystems


Configuring authentication


Configuring synchronization


Configuring file servers


Configuring the email server and email service


IMAP Protocol support


Configuring Web Content Management


Configuring the virtualization server


WCM deployment


Troubleshooting


Debugging an Alfresco installation


Setting log levels


Testing and debugging links


Error messages


Troubleshooting NFS


Troubleshooting CIFS


OpenLDAP tips


Active Directory tips


Installation
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