First time using alfresco, troubles ahead!

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lpallard

Hi there, first time posting here and using Alfresco!

I have installed it on my Slackware64 14 server.  All dependencies were met before the install.

The install went fine (took a while toward the end for whatever reasons but finished nonetheless)

I started Alfresco using

/path/to/alfresco/alfresco.sh start

first time I started it after the install, it started fine, I could access the share login page at http://server-ip:8070/share.

Then I stopped it to see if the shutdown sequence worked, it stopped, I could no longer access http://server-ip:8070/share.  So far so good.

Then I restarted it using the command above, the output was

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /var/lib/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /var/www/htdocs/alfresco-4.2.c/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tmp/tomcat
Using JRE_HOME:        /var/www/htdocs/alfresco-4.2.c/java
Using CLASSPATH:       /var/www/htdocs/alfresco-4.2.c/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/var/www/htdocs/alfresco-4.2.c/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Using CATALINA_PID:    /var/www/htdocs/alfresco-4.2.c/tomcat/temp/catalina.pid
/var/www/htdocs/alfresco-4.2.c/tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh : tomcat started

But I no longer could access the share portal.  Tomcat seems not running.  After the first startup I could access Tomcat's home page at http://server-ip:8070, but now even if the startup command says everything is fine, I cannot access Tomcat.

What would be the next steps in troubleshooting this strange situation?

Thanks to everybody!

abarisone

Hi,
first of all check if there is enough space on your server, since after first deployment application war files are expanded under tomcat/webapps
Then take a look to Tomcat log files which can be found under tomcat/logs.
After that take alook to alfresco.log file and check about stacktraces and other errors.
Are you sure the configuration you're using is right and supported?

Regards,
Andrea