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Step by step installation of Alfresco Community

4.2.c on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 64bit…

please, no bundle!

After the high interest of the

installation tutorial under Ubuntu

plaform, in this post is shared

the installation of Alfresco

Community 4.2.c on Windows

Server 2008 R2 Standard

64bit with Apache Tomcat

7.0.30 and PostgreSQL 9.0.10.

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 starting…

In this tutorial I use a brand new Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 64bit

installation with a user called ‘alfresco’, different from the Administrator user.

Connected as ‘alfresco’ user:

Install 7ZIP to manage various types of compressed files.

Install Notepad++ to edit text files.

Install Adobe Flash Player.

JDK 1.7u7

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Download and execute ‘jdk-7u7-windows-x64.exe’.

Install the jdk in ‘C:\Alfresco\Java\jdk1.7.0_07\’.

Install the jre in ‘C:\Alfresco\Java\jre7\’.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘cmd’ and press enter.

java -version

Check the java version described.

Right click on ‘Computer’ -> Properties -> Advanced settings ->

Environment variables -> New variable with name ‘JAVA_HOME’ and

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value ‘C:\Alfresco\Java\jdk1.7.0_07′ -> Press ‘Ok’ and close all.

ImageMagick 6.7.9-4

To enable image manipulation in Alfresco, we have to install and

configure ImageMagick.

Official site: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows

Binaries: http://imagemagick.spd.co.il/binaries/

First of all download GhostScript 9.06 (gs906w64.exe) used to render

PDF documents, from Google Code.

Install gs906w64.exe in ‘C:\Alfresco\gs9.06′.

Download ‘ImageMagick-6.7.9-4-Q16-windows-x64-static.exe’ from here.

ATTENTION: Other ImageMagik versions could not work.

Install ‘ImageMagick-6.7.9-4-Q16-windows-x64-static.exe’ in

‘C:\Alfresco\ImageMagick’.

During the installation, check flags: ‘Add application directory to your

system path’ and ‘Associate supported file extensions with ImageMagick’.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘cmd’.

convert.exe -version

Check the version described.

ffmpeg

Check the version described.

SWFTools 0.9.1

SWFTools is a collection of utilities to work with Adobe Flash files (SWF files).

Download it from ‘http://www.swftools.org/download.html‘.

Download ‘swftools-0.9.1.exe’ in the Windows section.

Install in ‘C:\Alfresco\SWFTools’ for all users.

Do not create shortcut or other.

Right click on ‘Computer’ -> Properties -> Advanced settings ->

Environment variables -> Select ‘Path’ -> Modify -> Add

‘;C:\Alfresco\SWFTools’ at the end -> Press ‘Ok’ and close.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘cmd’

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pdf2swf.exe -V

Check the version described.

LibreOffice Windows, version 3.5.7, English (GB)

LibreOffice is used to manage office documents.

Download site: http://www.libreoffice.org/download

Previous versions: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?nodetect

Download and execute ‘LibO_3.5.7_Win_x86_install_multi.msi’.

Install for all the users.

Custom installation.

Install in ‘C:\Alfresco\LibreOffice\’.

Leave defaults (desktop link apart).

Click on Start -> Digit ‘cmd’.

C:\Alfresco\LibreOffice\program\soffice.exe

LibreOffice will start.

Let’s discuss about tuning. Alfresco requires that Office runs headless as a

hidden process. To do that:

Click on Start -> Digit ‘cmd’.

C:\Alfresco\LibreOffice\program\soffice.exe "-accept=socket,host=loca

lhost,port=8101;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" -nologo -headless

To check the Office processes: open the task manager where there are

two different processes called “soffice.exe *32″ and “soffice.bin *32″.

Select “soffice.exe *32″ and terminate the process. Also the other will be

terminated.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘notepad++.exe C:\Alfresco\LibreOffice\start_oo.bat’

and create a new file.

@echo off

rem -----------------------------

rem - -

rem - START Resident OpenOffice -

rem - -

rem -----------------------------

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t,port=8101;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" -nologo -headless

Save and exit.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘C:\Alfresco\LibreOffice\start_oo.bat’.

ATTENTION: A command window will be opened with no content and never

closed. Don’t worry, close it and everything will be fine.

Open the task manager and check again the two processes: “soffice.exe

*32″ and “soffice.bin *32″.

ATTENTION: Restarting the system, the Office headless processes will not

restart. Remeber to execute the ‘start_oo.bat’ script otherwise no preview or

Office documents will be managed by Alfresco.

PostgreSQL 9.0.10

Download from ‘http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-

training/pgdownload#windows‘.

Execute the installation.

Install in ‘C:\Alfresco\PostgreSQL\9.0′.

Set data folder as ‘C:\Alfresco\PostgreSQL\9.0\data’.

Choose your own password.

Press next, next, next…

No added packages with StackBuilder.

Now it’s time to customize the PostgreSQL installation for Alfresco.

Click on Start -> PostgreSQL 9.0 -> SQL shell (psql)

Login as default user

CREATE ROLE alfresco WITH PASSWORD 'alfresco' LOGIN;

CREATE DATABASE alfresco WITH OWNER alfresco;

\q to exit

Click on Start -> PostgreSQL 9.0 -> SQL shell (psql)

Login as ‘alfresco’ user on the ‘alfresco’ db with password ‘alfresco’.

ALTER USER alfresco WITH PASSWORD 'alfresco';

\q to exit

Tomcat 7.0.30

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Download from ‘http://tomcat.apache.org/‘.

Download ‘Tomcat 7.0′ -> Quick Navigation -> Archives -> 7.0.30 -> bin ->

apache-tomcat-7.0.30-windows-x86.zip

Unzip it in ‘C:\Alfresco’ and rename ‘apache-tomcat-7.0.32′ in ‘tomcat’.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘cmd’

cd C:\Alfresco\tomcat\bin

startup.bat

A command window will be opened with inside all the execution logs of the

Tomcat start.

At the end, after few seconds, open a browser to the

url: http://localhost:8080/

To stop the Tomcat server, in the command window, execute:

shutdown.bat

Let’s customize the Tomcat installation for Alfresco.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘C:\Alfresco\tomcat\conf’.

Copy ‘catalina.properties’ in ‘catalina.properties.orig’.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘notepad++.exe

C:\Alfresco\tomcat\conf\catalina.properties’

Replace the ‘shared.loader’ line, initially set empty, to this value

shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared

/lib/*.jar

Save and exit.

Copy ‘server.xml’ in ‘server.xml.orig’.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘notepad++.exe C:\Alfresco\tomcat\conf\server.xml’

Add ‘URIEncoding=”UTF-8″‘ to:

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

Save and exit.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘C:\Alfresco\tomcat\conf’.

Copy ‘context.xml’ in ‘context.xml.orig’.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘notepad++.exe C:\Alfresco\tomcat\conf\context.xml’

Add this line between the ‘<Context>’ starting and closing tag.

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<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SSLAuthenticator"

securePagesWithPragma="false" />

Save and exit.

From the Alfresco package ‘alfresco-community-4.2.c.zip’ extract the

‘postgresql-9.0-802.jdbc4′ from the ‘web-server\lib’ folder and copy it in

‘C:\Alfresco\tomcat\lib’.

Alfresco Community 4.2.c

Click on Start -> Digit ‘C:\Alfresco\tomcat’

Create folder ‘endorsed’.

Create folder ‘shared’.

Create folder ‘shared/classes’.

Create folder ‘shared/lib’.

Unzip the ‘alfresco-community-4.2.c.zip’ package in ‘C:\Alfresco\tomcat’.

Move all the content of the folder ‘web-server/endorsed’ in ‘endorsed’.

Move all the content of the folder ‘web-server/shared’ in ‘shared’.

Move all the content of the folder ‘web-server/webapps’ in ‘webapps’.

Delete the file ‘README.txt’.

Delete the folder ‘web-server’.

Right click on ‘Computer’ -> Properties -> Advanced settings ->

Environment variables -> Select ‘Path’ -> Modify -> Add

‘C:\Alfresco\tomcat\bin’ -> Press ‘Ok’ and close.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes’

Copy ‘alfresco-global.properties.sample’ in ‘alfresco-global.properties’

Click on Start -> Digit ‘notepad++.exe

C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco-global.properties’.

Change the settings as described below, leaving all the rest not modified.

...

dir.root=C:\\Alfresco\\alf_data

# IMPORTANT: Leave the comment on the dir.keystore property.

...

db.username=alfresco

db.password=alfresco

...

#

# External locations

#-------------

# LibreOffice installation

ooo.exe=C:\\Alfresco\\LibreOffice\\program\\soffice.exe

ooo.enabled=true

jodconverter.officeHome=C:\\Alfresco\\LibreOffice

jodconverter.portNumbers=8101

jodconverter.enabled=true

# ImageMagick installation

img.root=C:\\Alfresco\\ImageMagick

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img.exe=C:\\Alfresco\\ImageMagick\\convert.exe

# SWFTools exe

swf.exe=C:\\Alfresco\\SWFTools\\pdf2swf.exe

...

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

...

Save and exit.

Now it’s time to define the start/stop script.

Click on Start -> Digiti ‘notepad++.exe C:\Alfresco\alfresco.bat’

Of course create it with this content.

@echo off

rem ---------------------------

rem - -

rem - Start and Stop Alfresco -

rem - -

rem ---------------------------

set ALF_HOME=C:\Alfresco

set CATALINA_HOME=%ALF_HOME%\tomcat

set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Xms512m -Xmx768m -Xss768m -server -XX:MaxP

ermSize=256M

if /I "%1"=="start" goto :start

if /I "%1"=="stop" goto :stop

echo Usage: alfresco.bat [start stop]

goto :end

:start

%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\startup.bat

goto :end

:stop

%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\shutdown.bat

goto :end

:end

Save and exit.

Click on Start -> Digit ‘cmd’ -> Right click on ‘cmd’ and execute it as

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administrator.

cd C:\Alfresco

alfresco.bat start

A command window will be opened with inside all the execution logs of the

Alfresco start.

Some minutes should be enough…

During bootstrap no error should appear.

At the end, open a browser and access to the url

‘http://localhost:8080/share&#8217;.

Last but not least, remember to copy

‘C:\Alfresco\tomcat\bin\Win32NetBIOSx64.dll’ in ‘C:\Windows\System32′. This is

usefull to make work the CIFS access to Alfresco on this Windows platform.

That’s all…

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55 thoughts on “Step by step installation of Alfresco

Community 4.2.c on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

64bit… please, no bundle!”

Orion

— 27/06/2013 at 17:06

What permission level do you give the ‘alfresco’ user? Or to ask another

way, which security group(s) is the user a member of?

Reply

Francesco Corti

— 27/06/2013 at 17:15

Hi Orion,

I usually add the alfresco user to the sudoers to correctly install

everything is necessary.

I usually create the alfresco user with the default alfresco group

without specific permits.

Hope this help you.

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Orion

— 28/06/2013 at 02:30

Thank you for your quick response.

But you stated “In this tutorial I use a brand new Windows Server 2008 R2

Standard 64bit installation with a user called ‘alfresco’, different from the

Administrator user. Connected as ‘alfresco’ user:”

So, this is about installing on a windows server, correct? So when you

create a new user called Alfresco, it will be a member of a windows

security group…so my question is, what should it be a member of?

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Francesco Corti

— 28/06/2013 at 08:03

Hi Orion,

I apologize but I thought this tutorial was the one on the Linux

platform so I gave you the wrong answer for the Windows platform.

SOrry for this.

Back to your question: in our cases we set the alfresco user as

Administrator type but we avoid to use the default Administrator

user.

Let me know if you find or set the user in a different way… and

Alfresco runs fine.

Reply

ecmexplorer

— 29/07/2013 at 23:03

Hi, Francesco —

Thanks for the great document: it’s very helpful. I’m far enough along that

I’m trying to resolve the “Win32NetBIOSx64″ issue. I don’t seem to be able

to find a copy of this file as a result of unpacking the Alfresco 4.2.c WAR

zip file, or in our Tomcat-7 stuff. Can you provide any additional

information about this guy — or how to disable the need for it in Alfresco-

global.properties, please?

Thanks for your time.

Don

Reply

Francesco Corti

— 29/07/2013 at 23:32

Hi Don,

Thank you for your feedback.

I suggest you to find the dll and use it in the way the installation

needs.

You can find it in the alfresco’s zip file in the ‘bin’ directory.

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Alternatevely there are several websites containing it, for example:

http://fossies.org/linux/www/alfresco/alfresco-community-

4.2.c.zip/index_st.html

If you will not find it, let me know and I’ll send you by email.

I hope this help you.

Reply

ecmexplorer

— 30/07/2013 at 15:25

Hi, again, Francesco —

Thanks for the speedy reply, and for reminding me of the

zip file. I had unpacked the WAR file from it several weeks

ago and had then dismissed the zip file.

I’ve been putting together a document like yours for a few

weeks now, and just saw yours yesterday. After reading

yours, I doubt there’s much that you don’t already know.

Still, one thing that I learned when trying to address our

SSL needs for our Alfresco server is to create the Tomcat

server’s certificate request with a “Subject Alternative

Name” (“SAN”) entry: this allows users to specify the

alfresco sever’s URL as, say,

“https://alfrescoServer.yourCompany.com/alfresco” or

“https://alfrescoServer/alfresco” without annoying the

browser. Perhaps you already knew this as well, but I hope

it may be some return for what you’ve provided.

In any case, thanks for the great document: it was very

helpful to me.

Don

Mark Dix

— 17/09/2013 at 12:29

Hi Francesco

Great Article. How do you setup Tomcat so it runs as a service and does

not get killed when the alfresco user logs out i.e. how do you change the

user to a system user?

Have you ever setup Alfresco using MySQL DB?

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Thanks Mark

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Francesco Corti

— 17/09/2013 at 12:43

Hi Mark,

Thank you for your feedback.

Regarding your first question: even if you run alfresco from a

command line, when you logout as alfresco user, the tomcat still

continue to work correctly.

If you want to do something like ‘service alfresco start’ to run

alfresco you can edit a new file ‘/etc/init.d/alfresco’ with this

content:

#!/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

In production environment, please remember to put the ‘service

alfresco start’ in the ‘rc.local’ file.

Regarding the second question, about MySql, of course yes!

Alfresco works perfectly even with MySql.

The approach to scripts/services/installation are exactly the same

of the article but with custom commands for the different database

and few different configurations for it.

Hope this will help you.

Reply

stalin louis

— 22/01/2014 at 11:29

Hi Francesco Corti

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Thanks for the great document: it’s very helpful. But I got a Error

message is : Your authentication details have not been recognized or

Alfresco may not be available at this time

Thanks for your time

Stalin Louis

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Francesco Corti

— 22/01/2014 at 11:46

Hi,

Thank for the feedback.

This message happens when Alfresco has some kind of problems.

Probably the installation steps fail in some place.

I suggest you to check the Alfresco logs.

Reply

stalin louis

— 24/01/2014 at 12:03

Hi Francesco Corthi..

Thanks for your speedy reply.now it’s working properly.But i

have one more doubts,i need to install Record management

amp files in my Alfresco Community 4.2.e version… tell me

any possible guide link

thanks for your time

Francesco Corti

— 25/01/2014 at 12:12

There is a guide in the Alfresco wiki.

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Francesco D'Agostino

— 02/02/2014 at 11:16

Hi, I state that I am a neophyte in Alfresco, but why you use a 32 bit

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version of tomcat instead of 64 bit? Great tutorial … best ..

Reply

Francesco Corti

— 02/02/2014 at 18:49

Hi Francesco,

I answere in the CoseNonJaviste website… I confirm you here this

is a good question.

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Leon

— 20/02/2014 at 04:37

Hi Franseco Corti i had some question about cifs on windows 7, so i had a

problem when i trying to access the cifs it need authentication user and

password but when i insert the password and username i got that the

authentication failed, do i need to copy Win32NetBIOSx64.dll to system32

since i install alfresco not community but enterprise?

and if it’s not what should i configure so i could use cifs on windows 7?

because i red on alfresco forum they said i should uninstall file and printer

sharing what do you think?

Reply

Francesco Corti

— 20/02/2014 at 10:07

Hi Leon,

The dll is requested in both the edition (Community and

Enterprise).

Did you investigate on the alfresco-global.properties file?

I suggest you to post a request on the Alfresco forum.

Cheers.

Reply

stalin louis

— 06/03/2014 at 12:08

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Hi Francesco

Great Article. I want plugin Activiti on my Alfresco Community 4.2.c ,I Want

to add a new Workflow.

How to add the plugin And Customize Workflow,kindly provide the solution

for this…

Thanks & Regards

Stalin Louis

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Francesco Corti

— 06/03/2014 at 14:22

Hi,

Thank you for the feedback.

Workflow is a very different topic respect to the installation.

Try to take a look here:

http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2012/02/20/1552

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Safaa Zao

— 12/03/2014 at 13:02

Hi think you for your great Article

I have followed this tutorial step by step ,i have access to the

authentification page of alfresco ,but i still not able to be authentified i try

the default username and password ADMIN ADMIN but it doesn’t work

,have u a suggestion?

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Francesco Corti

— 18/03/2014 at 23:11

Hi Safaa,

Usually, when you cannot login with the admin user, the installation

is corrupted in some way.

I suggest you to take a look at the log file (catalina.out).

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Azl

— 18/03/2014 at 03:37

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Hi Fransesco,

Great tutorial! But I’ve problem about first Authentication user/pass into

Alfresco after installation. I typed username and password. When I press

login button, it’s nothing happened. The Login button was disabled. How

could I fix this error?

Thanks and Regards,

Azl

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Francesco Corti

— 18/03/2014 at 23:39

Hi Azl,

The problem could be because you use an unsupported version of

the browser.

Please, try using Firefox or Chrome.

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Azl

— 19/03/2014 at 00:27

Hi Francesco,

Yes, by using Firefox I see the error message exactly “The

remote server may be unavailable or your authentication

details have not been recognized.” When I checked the

alfresco.log:

WARN [org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory] Could not obtain

connection metadata

org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot

load JDBC driver class ‘org.postgresql.Driver’

I’ve tried copy jar JDBC driver into TOMCAT_HOME/lib but it

doesn’t work properly. Have you any suggestion?

Thanks and Regards,

Azl

Francesco Corti

— 19/03/2014 at 08:15

Ok, in this case the installation is not working properly

because of the PostgreSql driver. I suggest you to check

the installation steps one more time.

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I hope this will help you.

Mark

— 18/03/2014 at 11:40

Dear Francesco ,

I understand now.

Thanks you so much for valuable post.

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Mark

— 20/03/2014 at 03:48

Hello Francesco

I followed step by step installation.

Now I can see login page in http://localhost:8080/share/page.

But i cannot connect with database.

I have not see ‘alf_data’ under C:\\Alfresco.

Guide me please.

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Mark

— 20/03/2014 at 08:45

i can pass now . I install again from start and check detail. It’s my

bad. In fact, I have error that [Error: missing 'server' JVM at

'C:\Alfresco\Java\jre7\bin\server\jvm.dll'] . Now i solved it and i get

alf_data. Sorry for my interrupt again and again . I am just a

beginner and i have your post only one to refrence. Thanks you so

much . Now i have only problem that

[java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space] . i will fix that and i

think i can run successfully .

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Francesco Corti

— 20/03/2014 at 09:08

Hi Mark, I suggest you to set the JAVA_OPT S parameter in

the script that runs alfresco (alfresco.bat). I hope this helps

you.

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Mark

— 20/03/2014 at 10:19

Dear Francesco,

finally i can run it because of you.

Today i really thanks you .

Wish you all the best

Best Regards,

Mark

Francesco Corti

— 20/03/2014 at 10:38

Cool! Thank you for the feedback and enjoy Alfresco.

Abolade Olajohn

— 09/07/2014 at 15:02

Yes, you understand now, but please, what did you do? It may help

other. This whole thing is about providing solution. Thank you.

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amou

— 16/04/2014 at 11:17

Hi,

At first I want to thank you for this tutorial, it is very helpful I want to

know how can i log in as an administrator for alfresco after this installation

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Francesco Corti

— 16/04/2014 at 11:20

Hi,

You are welcome!

Login: admin

Password: admin

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amou

— 16/04/2014 at 13:14

Dear Francesco ,

thank you very much have you tried to configure ldap authentication

after this installation?

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Francesco Corti

— 16/04/2014 at 14:16

Of course.

Take a look here:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Authentication_Subsystems

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amou

— 16/04/2014 at 15:48

Dear Francesco ,

The problem that i don’t find the directory tomcat/webapps/alfresco after

this installation to configure the authentication.

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Francesco Corti

— 16/04/2014 at 21:35

Hi,

You don’t have the directory only if you didn’t start Alfresco for the

first time.

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amou

— 18/04/2014 at 11:30

Hi Francesco,

The LDAP authentication works perfectly, thank you for your quick

responses.

Now, I will try the external authentication with OpenAM

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Francesco Corti

— 18/04/2014 at 11:32

Good job!

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Monendra

— 12/05/2014 at 10:08

Hi Francesco,

I was struggling with the installation finally your blog saved my life.

Thanks for such an explanatory article, now I am able to login to share

and alfresco explorer.

But As I am new Bee and i have a requirement to setup the same in

Enterprise edition. But nowhere i am able to find “alfresco-enterprise-

4.2.zip” file.

Can you please tell me is it possible to setup enterprise edition the same

way?

If yes, can you please help me with that?

Thanks in advance

Monendra

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Francesco Corti

— 12/05/2014 at 10:43

Hi Monendra,

I’m happy you find the tutorial useful.

You can download the zip file for the Enterprise distribution in the

partners section of Alfresco otherwise you are not authorize to use

and install it (except for a trial of 30 days).

Cheers.

-F

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Ivan

— 05/06/2014 at 10:17

hi Francesco, thank you for this informative tut.

I am having issue with the browser, it looks something to do with the CSS

but I am not sure. when I open the admin dashboard (using Chrome &

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Mozilla) the half of “my Dashboard” button in the top left corner is missing

plus when I am resizing the page its not showing any horizontal scroll bar

which make the page contents looks like pasta with white sauce.

i am using community edition 4.2

any suggestions ?

thanks

Ivan

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Francesco Corti

— 06/06/2014 at 07:37

Hi Ivan,

The Alfresco community edition is certified on a (very) limited

stack. Even if the presentation is quite old, you can take a look

here (slide 15): http://www.slideshare.net/alfresco/ecm-decision-

matrix-deciding-between-alfresco-community-edition-alfresco-

enterprise-edition-and-traditional-proprietary-ecm.

And even if the Alfresco CE is certified, some bugs could be

possible (slide 11).

Summarizing… I didn’t find the problem you tell me into my

(several) installations of Alfresco CE 4.2 but it could depend on

your exact version installed (4.2.a, 4.2.c, 4.2.f, ecc.).

You cannot tollerate this? The only and final answer is: get the

Enterprise Edition!

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kael

— 02/07/2014 at 12:14

hi Francesco thank you for your tutorial

i just have one question , i want to install alfresco on windows 7 x86

and i just want know if i can do it with the step of your turtorial and x86

version of different requiere component

Best Regards

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Francesco Corti

— 02/07/2014 at 19:10

I didn’t try this… but I don’t expect problems.

Please, let us know if there is something wrong in it.

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Thanks!

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kael

— 02/07/2014 at 20:12

thank you for your reply and availability

I therefore remains awaiting a response to my concern

bhupathya

— 10/07/2014 at 07:15

does the above tutorial suits for installing alfresco commmunity 5.0.a..

pls helpp..

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Francesco Corti

— 10/07/2014 at 08:06

Hi,

I would like to develop a new version of the tutorial but you can

suppose the steps are more or less the same.

Please, share the precise steps once you test into your

environment so other people could benefit.

Thank you for contribution.

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BHUPATHY A P

— 10/07/2014 at 07:18

sir, how to install community5.0.a in windows environment..pls guide me…

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Francesco Corti

— 10/07/2014 at 08:07

Hi,

You can start with the installation wizard.

I hope this helps you.

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Alexis

— 08/08/2014 at 08:04

Francesco thank you for the post. I am facing an issue though.

In the last step during the execution of the command “alfresco.bat.start” i

get an error ermSize is not recognized as an internal or external

command, operable program or batch file.

Do you guess why I am facing this issue?

Thanks!

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Francesco Corti

— 08/08/2014 at 08:34

Hi Alexis,

Probably you typed wrongly the “permsize” parameter.

Please, double check in the script.

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Rida— 09/08/2014 at 13:42

Hi Francesco Corti

thanks for the installation guide.

I did install it on windows 7 using the lateset alfresco community 5 version.

everything works fine except the startup time it takes in the browser.

when i launch http://localhost:8080/share or alfresco first time it takes

about 4 minutes to start .My Java_OPTS are set to 512 and 768 .

My Pc has 4 gb ram .what will make it faster .

Rida

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Francesco Corti

— 09/08/2014 at 13:47

Hi Rida,

Nice test for this tutorial!

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Thank you for sharing your experience.

Regarding your question: Alfresco is always a little bit slow during

the startup and the very first time it takes more time because of the

database setup.

So, my first suggestion is to measure the startup time in the

second time, not before.

In every case, if you want to make the startup faster, you can set

up:

-Xmx3G -XX:MaxPermSize=256M

(you can take a look at https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JVM_Tuning)

Cheers,

-F

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