Stuck New installation of 2.0 on Ubuntu Server 7.0.4

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caedmon

Ok, I got Alfresco and WCM working on my Mac. Woohoo!

Now my boss wants to see it on a server, so that we can actually bang on it.  So I thought I'd be slick and test out the new Ubuntu server as well. I've tried several different ways of installing and no dice. Any suggestions on how to get Alfresco going?

I tried the easy install using AlfrescoCommunity-2.0-Linux-x86-Install

No dice, It requires a GUI. No problem, I wanted to try an advanced install anyway.

I rebuilt the system, and  tried the advanced method using alfresco-community-tomcat-2.0.0.tar. I now get the following error from tomcat manager when I attempt to start the Alfresco Web Client:

FAIL - Application at context path /alfresco could not be started‍

Below are the steps I took:

I started with a fresh Ubuntu Server 7.0.4 install I and used the native LAMP option.

After the default install, I used apt-get to install:

phpmyadmin       (not related to Alfresco install)
openoffice.org     (for document transformations)
imagemagick       (for image transformations)
sun-java5-jdk      (Java JDK 1.5.0.11)
libmysql-java       (MySQL JDBC Connector)
tomcat5               (App server)
tomcat5-admin     (tomcat goodies)
tomcat5-webapps (tomcat goodies)

Ok, so far so good. I confirm that Apache, Tomcat and MySQL are working.

Now if I understand the documentation, configuring Alfresco should now be as simple as:
1. unpacking alfresco-community-war-2.0.0.tar
  

I put it in /opt/alfresco for grins

2. Copy the alfresco.war file to the appropriate location for the application server

  

using tomcat manager's deploy functionality to deploy alfresco.war

it moves it to:
   /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/alfresco.war
and unpacks to as well to: 
   /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/alfresco

3. If I was using v. 1.4 possibly add -server option to tomcat5.conf 

  

file doens't exist on my system?!?

4. add MySQL JDBC connector

(already done)

5. prep MySQL with Alfresco DB username & password

Ran db_setup.sql

confirmed new DB and user

6. Database & data location configuration:

 

a. moved custom-repository-context.xml.sample
       to:
    /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/custom-repository-context.xml

    b. moved custom-repository.properties.sample
     to:
     /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/custom-repository.properties

   uncommented the following (kept default values):
   

   dir.root=/srv/alfresco/data

       db.username=alfresco
       db.password=alfresco
       db.pool.initial=10
       db.pool.max=100

       db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
       db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco
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(then I created the folder /srv/alfresco/data)

  c. moved custom-hibernate-dialect.properties.sample
     to:
     /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/custom-hibernate-dialect.properties

    uncommented MySQL dialect:

  hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect
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At this point I should be done.  I used tomcat manager to start the Alfresco Web Client. and I get he following error:

FAIL - Application at context path /alfresco could not be started‍

derek

Hi,

Put the renamed .sample files in /var/lib/tomcat5/shared/classes/alfresco/extension instead.  If Tomcat redeploys the web app, it will wipe the webapps/alfresco directory out.  This might not be the issue - but it's safer.  Clean out your /srv/alfresco/data directory and your database and try again.  Have a look in catalina.out and alfresco.log for any errors or warnings and post those back here if you are still getting issues.

Regards