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How to Make Alfresco Start Automatically

joel18 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:08:07 GMT

Hello everyone, Now I have a problem about Alfresco. After I have installed Alfresco successfully, I can start it by running start.bat file manually. However I want to make Alfresco start automatically as long as I start the server machine. Would you like to tell me how to solve this prob

Re: How to Make Alfresco Start Automatically

pmonks — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:20:27 GMT

It depends on your operating system, but it sounds like you're using Windows so you'll need to configure Tomcat (and the virtualisation server, if you're using Alfresco WCM) to run as a Windows Service. This process is described at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/windows-service-howto.html, but make sure that you preserve Alfresco's startup parameters (JVM heap size in particular)

Cheers,
Peter

Re: How to Make Alfresco Start Automatically

nalinperera — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:29:45 GMT

I have installed Alfresco in a Windows XP computer. Once the Alfresco is started from the BAT file, it works well. Even the Other computers on the LAN can access it. Then I configured the Windows Service as given in http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_Alfresco_as_a_Windows_Service.

The Service Starts without any problem, and the Alfresco works within the Local computer. The problem is, when it's started from the Service, the remote computers in the LAN cannot connect to Alfresco (They even cannot see the Tomat main page).

So when it's started from the BAT file, remote computers can access, and when started from the Service, the remote computers cannot access it (but works well within the local host).

What could be the possible course for this?

Cheers,
Nalin

Re: How to Make Alfresco Start Automatically

steve — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:18:54 GMT

Hi,

What app server are you using?

Steve

Re: How to Make Alfresco Start Automatically

nalinperera — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:21:00 GMT

Tomcat 5.5, which came with "AlfrescoCommunity-2.9.0B-Setup.exe"
Running on Windows XP Prof.

Re: How to Make Alfresco Start Automatically

steve — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:14:16 GMT

Hi,

Do you have any form of firewall on the machine that might be blocking network access?
There should be no difference as far as tomcat is concerned between running it directly or as a service.

Steve

Re: How to Make Alfresco Start Automatically

nalinperera — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:36:00 GMT

Hi,

I did the installation on a Windows 2003. And configured the service as http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_Alfresco_as_a_Windows_Service

It's working fine. All the computers in the LAN can access alfresco.

So I doubt there's the issue with the Windows XP ?

Thank you,