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Restoring backup on new server

rachidcap — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:12:34 GMT

When restoring an Alfresco database I get the following error:" HTTP Status 404 - /alfresco/——————————————————————————–type Status reportmessage /alfresco/description The requested resource (/alfresco/) is not available.——————————————————————————–Apache Tomcat/5.5.23" alfresco.log shows the followin

Re: Restoring backup on new server

kevinr — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:16:44 GMT

This error means Alfresco cannot find the alf_data folder - and therefore cannot find the lucene indexes.

You say this:
>* copy alf_data to tomcat root folder

Did you infact mean to copy the data to tomcat/bin folder? This is where Alfresco will expect to find it by default! You can point your 'dir.root' value to an absolute folder path if this helps to ensure it doesn't happen again.

Kevin