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3.3 Upgrade: Failed to read Webscript

luca — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:21:20 GMT

Hi,I'm upgrading Alfresco from version 3.0 to 3.3, but i have some issues.If I start Alfresco with a new repository and an empty DB all is OK, but when I change the reference of dir.root and DB to the old ones used by Alfresco 3.0 the initialization go wrong. The upgrade process of the database don'

Re: 3.3 Upgrade: Failed to read Webscript

luca — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:19:37 GMT

Hi all,
I found that the problem wasn't related to the upgrade, but in the repository itself. I tried to restart Alfresco 3.0 with the original repository and I get the same error!

I modified org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry to exclude from the registration the webscript under org/alfresco/sample and Alfresco 3.3 started succesfully!

The webscript that caused all the problem is org/alfresco/sample/blogsearch.get.desc.xml. I think that is hidden in the database somewhere… :?:

Anybody can give me some hint? Where can I find that webscript? How can I fix it? Can I remove it without any problem?

Re: 3.3 Upgrade: Failed to read Webscript

luca — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:33:41 GMT

I replaced the broken webscript with a new one deleting it from the WebClient and uploading a new one from a working copy of alfresco.

That's all!

Re: 3.3 Upgrade: Failed to read Webscript

mruflin — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:19:04 GMT

I had exactly the same problem when upgrading an instance from 3.2E to 3.2.1E.

For some unknown reason, the binary data of folder.get.desc.xml was *missing*, thus the cm:content property linking to a non-existing file on the disk.

If you run into the same issue when you already started/finished the upgrading process, you can fix this afterwards:

Edit one of the two files (the second if you have enterprise edition, otherwise the first):
webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-scripts-application-context.xml
webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/enterprise-web-scripts-application-context.xml

Search for following bean:

   <bean id="webscripts.searchpath" class="org.alfresco.web.scripts.SearchPath">
      <property name="searchPath">
          <list>
             <ref bean="webscripts.store.repo.extension" />
             <ref bean="webscripts.store.repo" />
             <ref bean="webscripts.store.client.extension" />
             <ref bean="webscripts.store.client" />
             <ref bean="webscripts.enterprise.store" />
             <ref bean="webscripts.store" />
          </list>
      </property>
   </bean>
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and comment the first two referenced beans (repo.extension and repo). This will in fact disable webscript lookup inside the Repository, and only load webscripts located in the webapps/alfresco/… directories.

Once done, you can bring up Alfresco again (which should now not fail anymore) and manually fix the script(s) in question. Either delete the description file or simply upload a new version of the file, no need to completely delete/recreate the file completely.

Finally, stop the server, undo the changes in the xml file and restart. Alfresco should now start correctly.

It remains a mystery though why the file was missing in the repository…