Alfresco3.2r2 on tomcat6 with postgreSQL8.4 how to

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bwakkie

USE Alfresco 3.3 as it added PostgreSQL support during installation! FINALLY ;-)… this post is not working yet
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21103#p69296

I am struggling over setting up Alfresco svn on tomcat6 with a PostgreSQL 8.4 it the past week.



Here is what I did:

1) checkout HEAD (svn://svn.alfresco.com/alfresco/HEAD)
2) go into root dir
3) run ant build
4) download tomcat6
5) make a virtual-tomcat6 copy (perhaps I need to do this after a complete Alfresco install? This is a little bit unclear to me)
6) set environment variables:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/
export TOMCAT_HOME=/home/dev/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/
export APP_TOMCAT_HOME=$TOMCAT_HOME
export CATALINA_HOME=$TOMCAT_HOME
export CATALINA_BASE=$TOMCAT_HOME
export VIRTUAL_TOMCAT_HOME=/home/dev/apache-virtual-tomcat-6.0.20‍‍‍‍‍‍

7) download http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar and place it in TOMCAT_HOME/lib/postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar

—- intermezzo of the part is the documentation that confuses me (it might be due to my not English nativeness)[from http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6:]   1. Create TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/   2.   Create the <TOMCAT_HOME>/shared/classes/ directory and copy the extension files and full structure from the WAR to create the following directories:    ../shared/classes/alfresco/extension/<files> (alfresco.war extension override files)   ../shared/classes/alfresco/messages/<files> (locale specific message files)   ../shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/<files> (share.war extension override files)Now it is getting brurry for me..what do I need to do in step 2??    3. Open the <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf/catalina.properties file.   4. Change the value of shared.loader= to the following:          shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar Will this have any effect on already installed webapps?   5. One further change is that Tomcat6 does away with the common/lib directory, so you need to copy the JDBC drivers for the database you are using to the lib/ directory.   6. According to the PDF files [where?], you also need to copy commons-el.jar into lib —- /intermezzo

😎 Extract the war file by hand and drop all files into TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/? (this is what I understood)
9) Extract the  ../svn/Alfresco/root/projects/slingshot/build/dist/share.war file to TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/
10) Alter <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf/catalina.properties > shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar
11) restart tomcat6
12) Not sure when this happened but I also edited  the TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/alfresco.xml to add postgres:
<Resource defaultTransactionIsolation="-1" defaultAutoCommit="false" maxActive="100" initialSize="10" password="….." username="workalfresco" url="jdbcostgresql://localhost/alfresco" driverClassName="org.gjt.mm.postgresql.Driver" type="javax.sql.DataSource" auth="Container" name="jdbc/dataSource"/>

according to http://anipossible3.blogspot.com/2008/01/alfresco-postgresql-configuration.html I also need to edit custom-repository.properties and custom-hibernate-dialect.properties but I do not see them.

At one moment I also dropped the alfresco.war file just in the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps folder and created an alfresco folder but this all does not matter.

In the tomcat manager I see alfresco and I can start and stop it.

Can someone get me back on track?

ps why would I do such a thing anyway? Deploying Alfresco into my company will take some time so I rather use the latest of the latest in order to be current by the time I will deploy to production. Sounds reasonable right?

Cheers,
Bastiaan

bwakkie

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