How to change location of contentstore dir?

alessio86

Hi, I was wondering how to save files on an external server (different from the installation one). After reading some community discussions, I have understood that:
1. I need to change the dir.contentstore and dir.contentstore.deleted default values in the alfresco-global.properties file. But I don't know how to select the right path to the destination folder. For example:
dir.contentstore = <server_address>\\C:\\contentstore

Is it the right way to write the path?

2. After doing point 1, do I need to delete or move or rename the old contentstore directories? And also, should I delete the database (because maybe I will get errors when looking for a file in another location).

3. Do I need to modify other configuration or xml files? Or do I need to perform some other actions?

Thanks in advance,

Alessio

afaust

1) You need to specify the path to the directory in the way that you could also use as a fully qualified path on the console / shell. If you are running on WIndows you can use the UNC path or if you mounted a remote directory, you can also use the local mount drive.

2) If you only change dir.contentstore + _deleted, you need to move the contents of the old folders into the new location. You do not need to delete anything in the DB because all paths are stored relative to the contentstore.

3) If you only change dir.contentstore + _deleted, no other configuration needs to be changed.

Alfresco supports configuration of multiple content stores, so you could technically store content in multiple directories. Such a setup would require either extensive XML configuration or an addon such as Simple Content Stores.