topic New admin, existing install...what could I have done? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/new-admin-existing-install-what-could-i-have-done/m-p/186535#M139665 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello Community,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Although I have relatively no experience with this software, my users seem to like Alfresco quite a bit.&nbsp; An assigned task for me was to take an existing instance of Alfresco and migrate it to another machine.&nbsp; After reading through the online documentation, I was convinced the proper course of action was to stop Alfresco (and mysql)…and while it was "cold", I could simply make a tarball of the alf_data directory and a mysqldump of the Alfresco DB.&nbsp; The theory was that I could start up the existing server once I successfully created the backup files and people would still have access to existing content until the new server comes online….</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However, not everything went as planned.&nbsp; The Alfresco server never successfully restarted (the server runs, but doesn't do anything useful).&nbsp; Tomcat is running and is serving up the default tomcat page, but Alfresco is timing out.&nbsp; The log files started to show the following error around the time I did the backup:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>———-BEGIN ERROR———-</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>16:51:13,887 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.alfresco.web.app.ContextListener</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception parsing XML document from class path resource [alfresco/bootstrap-context.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Resource path [/opt/alfresco/alfresco] does not denote a directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Caused by:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Resource path [/opt/alfresco/alfresco] does not denote a directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.retrieveMatchingFiles(PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java:490)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.doFindMatchingFileSystemResources(PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java:470)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>existing </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>….</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>———-BEGIN ERROR———-</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help is appreciated and please let me know if there is anything I can do to help on your end,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Zach</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:08:57 GMT zshay 2008-11-20T22:08:57Z New admin, existing install...what could I have done? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/new-admin-existing-install-what-could-i-have-done/m-p/186535#M139665 Hello Community,Although I have relatively no experience with this software, my users seem to like Alfresco quite a bit.&nbsp; An assigned task for me was to take an existing instance of Alfresco and migrate it to another machine.&nbsp; After reading through the online documentation, I was convinced the prope Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:08:57 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/new-admin-existing-install-what-could-i-have-done/m-p/186535#M139665 zshay 2008-11-20T22:08:57Z Re: New admin, existing install...what could I have done? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/new-admin-existing-install-what-could-i-have-done/m-p/186536#M139666 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>For some reason there was a file named Alfresco in /opt/alfresco…it is a random data file.&nbsp; I didn't see that file on my new Alfresco system; so I moved it out of the directory.&nbsp; After a restart of the Alfresco server, all is now peachy.&nbsp; Perhaps I misused the tar command at one point today and created a junk file.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If this is an unexpected behavior…and someone would like me to send more data…just let me know in this thread.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Zach</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:21:42 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/new-admin-existing-install-what-could-i-have-done/m-p/186536#M139666 zshay 2008-11-20T22:21:42Z