Centos 6.2 and alfresco 4.d

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chrisryder

I have been trying for several weeks to install without success.

I have installed Cents 6.2 64bit.  I install a basic server (no database, no apache)  then run the bin community Version.

I have accepted the basic settings entering just a Password when requested.

The install completes (I see no errors)  I start the service  (yes I am installing as root)  everything seems to work.


1)  localhost:8080  shows me tomcat is working
2)  localhost:8080/share shows the logon screen
3) localhost:8080/alfresco  shows http status 404.

I can not see anything in the tomcat Logs to indicate an error with alfresco  but SOLR  shows a regular failure on a cron job.

Also I don't seem to have an Alfresco.log file!   :?

What should I do?  How can I start to find the solution here?

The Default configuration is postgresql  which I personally don't like  but the option to change to another database is not given anywhere and if the Default does not run I am not about to start trying to patch in another database…..

The Documentation is fine for java Junkies but everything seems to be hidden under a thousand different config Files.

That said  I would dearly like to get this running before my colleagues push Sharepoint on us.

Please help?  I am not a Java specialist and had hoped for a straight forward install.  I must be doing something wrong but what?

in hope of an answer
Best Regards
Chris Ryder

bisana

Hi Chris
Thanks for the mail
I have test installed Alfresco a couple of time, and it was success, I am also not a Java expert
I do custom installation and I choose MySQL almost all the time, if you need mysql based installation, please do the following
you should have mysql-server running, create a database "alfresco", you need to remember the user name and password, in my case I am using mysql "root " as user, for instance it is fine.
download MySQL JDBC driver  from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ , unxip it and you will find JDBC driver over there, keep it ready in any folder for future use.
now start the installation, chose advance, unselect postgresql, on the database configuration menu, give

db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8‍‍

wait till the installation over, it will ask whether to start the alfresco, say No, or uncheck the tick box
Now most importat, copy the downloaded and unzipped "mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar" to the tomcat/lib folder
Then now start alfresco
/alfinstalldir/alfresco start
and check the log files using tail -f /path/to/catatina.out
Thanks
Joseph John
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