Comments on How To Install Alfresco Community 3.3 On Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

Yes is TYPO

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Thanks for this tut finally managed to make it work on lucid lynx Good job!!!

Yes -- awesome job.  Following this guide also worked perfectly on Karmic.

No, it wasn't a typo, the line is correct. But after some search I found that this options is deprecated and not needed anymore.

I just made a test without the:

vti.alfresco.alfresoHostWithPort=http://192.168.1.1:8080

And it worked fine.

I had copied the lines from an old installation I had before.

Thanks & Regards,

port 8080 is not functioning with me, I am using linksys router and hub. Is there any problem with my configuration?

Hi,

Yes it was a type, but the strange thing is that both work!

In order to install java jdk

Part 8., Step 3. Sharepoint configuration:

vti.alfresco.alfresoHostWithPort=http://192.168.1.1:8080

should be:

vti.alfresco.alfrescoHostWithPort=http://192.168.1.1:8080
 

Thanks,

BG

Under Part 8. Alfresco configuration, step 1. Basic configuration: The first part of the script refers to "dir.root=", and the second part has it changed to "root.dir=".  Is this a typo?  Please advise.

Thanks.

@inflate: first rate! Thanks.

I had a couple of gotchas: first I had to upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 which trashed my sun-java6-jdk. I managed to sort this referring to http://happy-coding.com/install-sun-java6-jdk-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid/comment-page-1/#comment-343.

Also, for those of us who are doing the install over ssh remotely on to a headless server without X11, I have referred to  http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/sshtips.htm My ~/.ssh/config looks a bit like this:

Host RemoteAlfrescoServer
HostName xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        User alfuser
        Port 2200
        LocalForward 20080 localhost:8080

The xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and alfuser need to be altered to the correct entries and others may choose to forward ssh traffic over the standard port 22. And now I can locally set up an ssh tunnel to the Alfresco server:

ubundom@home$ ssh -N -f -q  RemoteAlfrescoServer

And hence I can safely surf with my local GUI browser to the RemoteAlfrescoServer over ssh thus:

http://localhost:20080/alfresco

http://dl.alfresco.com/release/community/build-2860/alfresco-community-tomcat-3.3g.tar.gz?dl_file=release/community/build-2860/alfresco-community-tomcat-3.3g.tar.gz

Install worked perfectly on my server - but I want the records mgmt module to be included.  Any ideas? Thanks!

Unfortunately, I was trying to use "wget" to download Alfresco Community 3.3g to  my Ubuntu 10.04 server. I was using the following link with the appropriate "wget -O" option as given in the post:

http://process.alfresco.com/ccdl/?file=release/community/build-2860/alfresco-community-tomcat-3.3g.tar.gz

The problem is that this link takes you to a page that shows two options: 1. Standard Download and 2. A Bittorent download. So my command from the command line fails with a 404 error where, obviously, if I click on the Standard Download button (I can't , the download happens on my browser. Unfortunately, my server version does not have X-Windows or a window manager running to I am trying to run everything off of the command line. Please let me know if you have a suggestion on how I can do this.

Great install guide. Thanks for making it so easy! Two quick comments / questions.

1. Isn't is the best practice to run things like Alfresco as a user other than root?  As the instructions are written, everything is owned by root. Wouldn't it be better to create an alfresco user and group and launch the server using that user?

 2.  Any hints or tips about creating an initialization script so Alfresco starts automatically at boot up? I've seen other guides for older versions of Alfresco and older Ubuntu versions that include suggested /etc/init.d/alfresco scripts. Would certainly be helpful to have that stuff included in your HowTo guide.

Thanks again for the strong work!

-Scott

Under 5, the configuration directory for mysql is shown as /etc/mysql/my.cnf

On Fedora 13, it is /etc/my.cnf

I installed alfresco from this guide, but can't start it, if i see "top" i can`t see proccess named "alfresco". If i start it:

root@srv:/opt/alfresco# bash alfresco.sh start
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/alfresco/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /opt/alfresco/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME:       /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/
root@srv:/opt/alfresco#

please help me!

I have same problem. Rather than just install the first two pages from 'the perfect server' I followed the whole install upto and including the installation of ISPConfig3. I then followed the install procedure for alfresco here. When I goto the address the browser returns page not found.

Not sure what hte problem is and I don't know enough about linux to debug it.

Can anyone help? 

I installed alfresco from this guide, but can't start it, if i see "top" i can`t see proccess named "alfresco". If i start it:

root@srv:/opt/alfresco# bash alfresco.sh start

Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/alfresco/tomcat

Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/alfresco/tomcat

Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/temp

Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/

root@srv:/opt/alfresco#

please help me!

This procedure works!  I don't know how much time it took you to document this procedure, but it was worth it.  I was familiar enough with Linux to get myself through it, and as far as I'm concerned, it was just what I needed (along with the first two pages of 'perfect server').  I am half tech, half business person; so I have to wonder why there isn't an automated install of Alfresco for Ubuntu 10 (either desktop or server).  When I finally finished carefully following your procedure, I booted a Windows XP machine, launched Firefox, and entered the URL (I used IP address instead of server name) for Alfresco DMS not really expecting to connect but -- wallah -- not long afterward, there was the Alfresco home page!  Same for Share.  I have to think it will be downhill from here.   Thanks again! (BTW, my server platform is the likes of a netbook:  ZOTAC IONITX-G-E Intel Atom 330 (1.6Ghz dual-core) NVIDIA ION Mini ITX mobo combo from newegg.com.  Not fast, but I'm just taking Alfresco for a test drive; I don't think this would remain my server platform.)

It works!!

 CIFS is working!

 Great how-to, man

Hi,

first of all : great job for this  how to...

Nevertheless I got an error when trying to start alfresco (chapter 9.3):

>>root@GED:/opt/alfresco# bash ./alfresco.sh start
>>./alfresco.sh: line 12: ./tomcat/bin/startup.sh: Permission non accordée

Sorry for the french: Permission non accordée = Permission denied

I ran everything as root  as described in this how to so how can I get permission problem ?

Thanx for you help

I have installed Alfresco on Ubuntu 10.04 and it is running successfully. The process that I had followed are mentioned in the below given link -

http://knowledgebreeze.blogspot.com/search/label/Alfresco

I just followed this procedures, and got the 404 message, then upon a little more research, one of the most critical part of the install is "NOT" to install tomcat prior to the installation of Alfresco. 

So either remove Tomcat or make sure Tomcat was not installed during the ubuntu installation, then proceed as instructed.

 Great job on the write up.