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WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

jak-wei — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:39:51 GMT

HI ALL , I built a project in Company/Web Projects , when i create a space and bulk import a war package,in the alfresco ,i can preview the project . but i want to deploy the project to other server and use other url .for example , i use "http://localhost:8080/myProject" what i do ? please help me

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

samuel_penn — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:13:49 GMT

Have you seen these pages on the wiki http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Category:WCM_Deployment?

As long as your links in the web site are all relative, the site should just work when it gets deployed to another server.

Sam.

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

peggyw — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:10:21 GMT

I have the same problem. What is the url to use to browse the deployed web site? I cannot find anything in http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Deployment

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

samuel_penn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:03:01 GMT

That depends on where you're deploying to. For example (in 2.1) I've set the "Deploy To" to be "\\daiakuji", which defines a file system deployment. I have a file system receiver running on daiakuji which just writes the deployed website into a Tomcat webapp folder. The URL of the deployed website is therefore the URL of the Tomcat webapp I've deployed into (which is actually an external virtual hostname, whereas daiakuji is the internal name of a development server, so there's no relationship between the deployment URL and the public URL of the website in my case).

In 2.2 and beyond, you have a few more options available to you when setting up deployment.

The point you may be missing is that deployment generally deploys to a different server, and you need to set up a receiver (and web server) on that server to receive the deployment. What do you have configured for deployment (and which version of Alfresco are you using)?

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

peggyw — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:54:44 GMT

Thanks. I couldn't find the interface for adding an Alfresco server receiver and a file system receiver as shown in the link http://wiki.alfresco.com/w/images/6/6e/Deploy-server-config.jpg

Where is it? I am using Alfresco Community-wcm-2.1.0

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

samuel_penn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:27:05 GMT

That screenshot is for 2.2. For 2.1, select "Edit Web Project Settings", and the deploy setting is on the first page of the wizard. Click the ? next to "Deploy To" for some help on the syntax. It's much simpler than in 2.2.

To deploy to a file receiver, you specify "\\servername", to deploy to an Alfresco repository just use "servername". The file system deployer can be downloaded from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=207402&release_id=524562

You'll then need to configure the deployment receiver, and start it up. Once that has been done, open up the Recent Snapshots from the Staging Sandbox, and click the green arrow next to a snapshot to deploy it. If you don't have any snapshots, you'll need to publish some content first.

Sam.

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

peggyw — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:48:16 GMT

Following your instruction, I have successful deployed a web site through file server deployment.

However I still couldn't find anything in the tomcat's webpps in the reciever server.
Could you tell me what the url to use to view the deployed website?

Thanks.

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

samuel_penn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:52:17 GMT

How have you configured the receiver? Is your content actually being written to the file system?

The application-context.xml (part of the receiver installation) configures where the content is written to (in mine, this is /opt/deployment/www):


…
<property name="targetData">
    <map>
        <entry key="default">
            <map>
                <entry key="root"><value>/opt/deployment/www</value></entry>
                <entry key="user"><value>admin</value></entry>
                <entry key="password"><value>admin</value></entry>
                <entry key="runnable"><value>org.alfresco.deployment.SampleRunnable</value></entry>
            </map>
        </entry>
        …
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Pathnames may be different if you're not using Linux. Is your content on the file system where you expect it to be? If that location is inside a Tomcat webapp directory, or Apache htdocs directory, then it should be picked up by the web server. Note that it will have a root folder equal to the project's default webapp (which defaults to ROOT).

So, if you have tomcat installed at /opt/tomcat5, and your project's webapp is set to be "mysite", then you should set the deployment root in the application-context.xml to "/opt/tomcat5/webapps". When you run the deployer, it will write the content to /opt/tomcat5/webapps/mysite. Your URL would then be http://myserver:8080/mysite

At the end of the day, all its doing is writing files to the file system. You need to make sure that there is a web server there to read those files, and serve them up. The exact URL will depend on the web server you are using.

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

peggyw — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:25:03 GMT

I have successfully deployed a web project to a tomcat I set up with everything in it. I will look into deploying to a linux box.
Thanks for everthing.

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

jak-wei — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:01:19 GMT

Thank you samuel.penn ,peggyw . all is ok now .

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

simon32 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:44:11 GMT

Hi all,

I have a few basic questions for this subject. In the readme.txt for the File Receiver installation it says to use the path you extracted the zip for the configuration. It uses something like /opt/deployment but what is before that? For example i extract in C:\fileReceiver do i use /C:/fileReceiver in my configuration and C: as the root directory for every subsequent installation? And if the file receiver is up and running how to i declare it in my application? samuel.pen named it "\\daiakuji" but i didn't find any declaration of the name in the file receiver configuration, so from where will i derive the name i will give to the configuration of the server in my project?

With regards
Simon

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

samuel_penn — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:56:49 GMT

In the examples I gave, "daiakuji" is the host name of the live web server (i.e., where the FSR is running). The FSR doesn't need to be configured for this, because it just writes everything locally. You would just use "\\webservername".

I'm not sure what you mean about /opt/deployment. Something you may be missing (since you've mentioned using C: in your path, I'll make a simple assumption that you don't have experience with UNIX - apologies if it's wrong) is that in UNIX, '/' is the root directory that sits above all filesystems. In DOS, the closest equivalent is a drive letter like C:, so you don't need to prefix that with a '/' if you're using Windows.

You would just use C:\fileReceiver (or C:/fileReceiver, I can never remember which way the slash goes in Java for DOS paths).

Does that help?

Sam.

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

simon32 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:23:53 GMT

Hi sam and thanks for your immediate response,

As far as the path goes you have helped a lot (and by the way you are correct about me and unix). I am still a bit confused about the live web server but for now i would like to ask you what is the result of a correct configuration of the FileReceiver, i mean a did everything in the readme and when i executed the deploy_start bat the starting message appeared and then the dos window closed is this correct? And concerning the live server, i will have to set up one for myself and connect it somehow with the application?

Simon

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

samuel_penn — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:51:22 GMT

There should be a java process running after calling deploy_start. You could check in task manager, or try running it from the command line to see if there is any output.

The FSR simply writes the content of the web site to the file system. For example, mine writes into the directory /opt/deployment/www. In that directory it creates a ROOT subdirectory, and beneath that the directory structure of the web site, including all the files, as so:


daiakuji deployment # ls /opt/deployment/www
ROOT
daiakuji deployment # ls /opt/deployment/www/ROOT
WEB-INF         characters.xml  genres      news                rules       settings
assets          download        genres.jsp  news.rss            rules.jsp   settings.jsp
characters      download.jsp    genres.xml  recent-updates.jsp  rules.xml   settings.xml
characters.jsp  download.xml    index.jsp   rssfeed.jsp         search.jsp  sitemap.xml
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In my case, the ROOT directory is linked into a Tomcat webapp (it's a soft link (like a shortcut) that points to /opt/tomcat5/webapps/yags), so I have a Tomcat server running (which DOES NOT run Alfresco), and it just serves the content as a website. I could write directly into the webapps directory in Tomcat, but since the deployment always creates a ROOT folder, this would overwrite Tomcat's ROOT webapp, which in this case I don't want).

If all you are generating are HTML files, then you could write the content into the directory for an Apache or IIS installation. The FSR is not a web server, it just deploys the content onto the file system so that it can be picked up by a web server. It's generally best that the live website is on a different server, normally in a DMZ where the public can access it, with the Alfresco server inside the firewall where the public can't access it. Initially, all you need to worry about is whether it writes the files onto the filesystem - you don't need a web server running to test this bit.

You could for test purposes have the FSR running on the same machine as Alfresco, though you may need to play around with port numbers to avoid port conflicts. Since I use virtual servers for everything, creating a new server for deploying into is relatively trivial.

There are log files in the FSR directory, so you may want to check those to see what's happening. I've only ever used the FSR on Linux, so I don't have much familiarity with problems you may get in DOS.

Sam.

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

simon32 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:30:22 GMT

Hi again,

I have succesfully created a ROOT folder in the folder i specified in application-context.xml namely c:\www. It appears to have all the folder from my alfrescosamle web application and if i am not mistaken this actually is a wep application. So i set up a new tomcat and transfer the folder with a changed name in his wepapp directory. When i type http://localhost:8086/projectname i get an HTTP status 404 error: The requested resource () is not available. What am i doing wrong now?

With regards
Simon

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

samuel_penn — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:43:17 GMT

If the files are there, it sounds like a an issue in tomcat. Is there a webapp called projectname that is deployed (according to the Tomcat management console)? Is there an index.html or index.jsp in the root of the webapp?

Sam.

Re: WCM PROJECT DEPLOYMENT

sharmsram — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:31:35 GMT

How to view the deployed website.

Have isntalled alfresco 3.2.
Created sample webproject by downloading alfresco.war [given along with the 3.2 setup]
While configuring website,
I gave the foll. details in deployment receiver details

host: localhost
port: 50500
url: http://localhost:8080/alfrescowww
target:avm

alfrescowww is the webproject name.

I am able to deploy the website using the above details but the url given in depoyment receiver does not work. it says resource not found.

how to view the deployed websites.

I do not have any idea about server configuration.
Plz. give a solution .could not find any useful information on this in net for more than a week.
note: target accepts only avm. IF I give target as webproject name, it says no such target found.

Thanks.
sharmsram