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Installing Afresco on a host?

melbenson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:56:35 GMT

I'm a newbie with Alfresco and I am a bit overwhelmed with the features, versions, and many downloads and components needed. I have successfully installed Alfresco Labs on Fedora 10 (via vmware). My question is: Is this application something that you can upload and install on a host/domain that you

Re: Installing Afresco on a host?

mrogers — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:14:31 GMT

Alfresco is not a LAMP application - further discussion here -> http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=15409&p=50551&hilit=LAMP#p50551

Alfresco is purely server side software that does not require any client side software.

The two interfaces overlap to some extent, use whichever suits -> http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=16838&p=55326&hilit=share+explorer#p55326

Re: Installing Afresco on a host?

melbenson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:28:58 GMT

Oh, geesh there was a recent post asking the same question, sorry!

So it is possible to FTP it to a host but it needs Tomcat and/or a java app server like WebSphere. This would not be a production site, just testing it out. One last question, if I were to ask my host support (cirtex hosting) if they have the capabilities to install Alfresco what terminology/components would I ask if they had? Thank you!

Re: Installing Afresco on a host?

derek — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:33:19 GMT

Hi,
You will need Tomcat and Java (ideally JDK1.6). Apart from those, Alfresco can optionally use the following external components:

You will need disk space and a MySQL database.
Regards