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

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cranejimmy3

Hello, I'm having trouble starting alfresco.war in tomcat server. I'm following the guide at https://docs.alfresco.com/6.0/concepts/ch-install.html.

When I click start for /alfresco in the tomcat server i get the error FAIL - Application at context path [/alfresco] could not be started.

Here's what I did.

1. I set up Apache Tomcat Server
2. I created the Postgres database(using the guide found at https://docs.alfresco.com/6.0/tasks/prep-filesys-db.html)
3. I create <Tomcat home>/shared
4. I create <Tomcat home>/shared/classes
5. I create <Tomcat home>/shared/lib
6. I then added "shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar"
to <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf/catalina.properties

7. I copied the postgres JDBC jar file from /home/user/alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-6.2.0-ga/web-server/lib to /home/user/apache-tomcat-9.0.37/shared/lib

8 I then configured the mutual TLS for solr communition(number 7 at https://docs.alfresco.com/6.0/tasks/configfiles-change-path.html)

9. I copied the war files from /home/user/alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-6.2.0-ga/web-server to /home/user/apache-tomcat-9.0.37/webapps

10. I copied alfresco.xml and share.xml from /home/user/alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-6.2.0-ga/web-server/conf/Catalina/localhost to /home/user/apache-tomcat-9.0.37/conf/Catalina/localhost

11. I copied the postgres JDBC jar file from /home/user/alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-6.2.0-ga/web-server/lib to /home/user/apache-tomcat-9.0.37/lib

12. I added alfresco-global.properties to /home/user/apache-tomcat-9.0.37/shared/classes

alfresco.log output:

2020-08-05 13:27:01,236 WARN [org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext] [Catalina-utility-2] Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomEditorConfigurer#0' defined in class path resource [alfresco/core-services-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'customPropertyEditorRegistrar' while setting bean property 'propertyEditorRegistrars' with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customPropertyEditorRegistrar' defined in class path resource [alfresco/core-services-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'NamespaceService' while setting bean property 'namespaceService'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dictionaryDAO' defined in class path resource [alfresco/core-services-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'tenantService' while setting bean property 'tenantService'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'tenantService' defined in URL [jar:file:/home/user/apache-tomcat-9.0.37/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/alfresco-repository-7.134.1.jar!/alfresco/mt/mt-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'tenantAdminDAO' while setting bean property 'tenantAdminDAO'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'tenantAdminDAO' defined in class path resource [alfresco/dao/dao-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'repoSqlSessionTemplate' while setting bean property 'sqlSessionTemplate'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'repoSqlSessionTemplate' defined in class path resource [alfresco/ibatis/ibatis-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'repoSqlSessionFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'repoSqlSessionFactory' defined in class path resource [alfresco/ibatis/ibatis-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'dialectResourceLoader' while setting bean property 'resourceLoader'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dialectResourceLoader' defined in class path resource [alfresco/ibatis/ibatis-context.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPathFactoryBean#bbd3974' of type [org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPathFactoryBean] while setting bean property 'dialectClass'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPathFactoryBean#bbd3974' defined in class path resource [alfresco/ibatis/ibatis-context.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dialect': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Failed to obtain JDBC Connection; nested exception is org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver'

os: ubuntu 16.04

JDK 14

tomcat 9

distribution.zip

any help is appreciated!

afaust

You did not specify what exactly you set in alfresco-global.properties or what documentation you followed with regards to those settings (in other points you explicitly linked to the documentation pages used for reference). It looks to me like you might not have set the db.driver property (https://docs.alfresco.com/6.2/tasks/postgresql-config.html).