topic Post install changes best practices? in Alfresco Archive

Post install changes best practices?

karlbowden — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:32:50 GMT

For the sake of testing I have been working on a script to complete the changes I need in a fresh full linux install to allow me to extract a backup of mysql and alf_data and test alfresco in different environments.So far I have:#!/bin/shBASE=/opt/Alfresco#JAVA_VER="java-6-sun"JAVA_VER="java-1.5.0-s

Re: Post install changes best practices?

zaizi — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:09:42 GMT

You can just unzip alfresco.war and make changes to config files. However, you can overwrite most configurations by placing your custom configuration in the Alfresco extension folder. See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Client_Configuration_Guide. You can over write repository.properties. See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Configuration.

You might want to think about checking in your Alfresco installation into subversion. This will let you provision new instances by simply checking out. Also will let you manage all the configurations through tagging and branching.

Re: Post install changes best practices?

mikeh — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:38:35 GMT

Does this wiki article help? http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Configuration

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Post install changes best practices?

karlbowden — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:09:56 GMT

Thanks for the posts guys. Repository Configuration seems to be just the page I was after.
And CVS is a very good idea for storing configuration changes.
Has anybody already posted a list of excludes for git (or svn) to help in setting up the repository?