topic Re: installing using non-dedicated tomcat in Alfresco Archive

installing using non-dedicated tomcat

deniszy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:51:29 GMT

Is it possible to install Alfresco not on dedicated Tomcat but on other servlet container?currently i am trying to deploy it on JBoss with Tomcat under Mac OS X and getting exceptions like: 13:27:40,516 ERROR [[/alfresco]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org

Re: installing using non-dedicated tomcat

mrogers — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:55:32 GMT

Yes Alfresco runs on other application servers including JBOSS.

There's information about running on JBOSS in the wiki, for example:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Deploying_WAR_JBoss

However from your exception message it looks like there is a problem with your database configuration.

You need to install and configure a database for alfresco to use, have you done that?

Re: installing using non-dedicated tomcat

deniszy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:04:09 GMT

Thank you for you reply.
no, i have not installed a DB for Alfresco.
however i do have MySQL instance running so, as far as i understand, this DB configuration is stored inside Alfresco WAR file, isn't it?

i read this document http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_on_MacOS_X and assumed that internal DB is used by default.
it says that configuration for MySQL is optional. However it does not say that any other DB should be configured.

Re: installing using non-dedicated tomcat

mrogers — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:23:41 GMT

Yes you are right that there will be some configuration in the WAR file.

The file that has your database settings is called repository.properties.

The steps to configure the database are
1) create an alfresco schema
2) create a user for alfresco to access the database
3) add the jdbc driver to the classpath (it may already be there)
4) configure alfresco to use your database.

Re: installing using non-dedicated tomcat

deniszy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:34:02 GMT

Still having a problem with deploying the app.

there is no error in the log but it says:

HTTP Status 404 - /alfresco/

type Status report

message /alfresco/

description The requested resource (/alfresco/) is not available.
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I did do changes described in here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_On_Jboss_4.2.0 and here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Deploying_WAR_JBoss
but still receiving the error above.
Could it be the problem with Alfresco 3, as all documentation for JBoss deployment is written for version 2.1?