topic Re: Pure Frustration in Alfresco Archive

Pure Frustration

lrzuniga — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:36:35 GMT

Why is Alfresco installation such a convoluted process?I've done 6 different types of installations each with dozens of steps about java, tomcat, etc, etc…and none of them work!!! :evil: Alfresco's a decent system, but its not ready for prime time when installing it requires days of fiddling.I gue

Re: Pure Frustration

gronfelt — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:37:07 GMT

What types of problem have you run into? My experience is that installation has become pretty simple with 3.2, however I only have experience with Linux.

Re: Pure Frustration

lrzuniga — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:30:02 GMT

All sorts of problems, first of all the documentation is quite confusing…with tomcat or without tomcat, the linux install doesnt specify what is required.

I download linux install for centos, and make sure I have java (which one is needed?!?!), Openoffice, MySQL, etc etcl…all installed, all up to date.

then I run the install into /opt/Alfresco and modify the alfresco.sh…because I figure it out from reading countless forums but NOWHERE in the install documentation does it say I need to?!

ok, rant aside,

When I run the alfresco.sh start, it does stuff and then I wait a good 5 minutes until I am sure it is running…from the logs, it already complains it cant find imagemagick or openoffice, but but are installed and up to date.

Still, it runs, so I localhost:8080/share and get the login, but it wont take admin/admin password.

so I try localhost:8080/alfresco and get a tomcat error and go no further.

Ive installed dozens if not hundreds of opensource apps in linux, windows, osx, etc., but this one is quite frustrating.

here is what I want: yum install alfresco

heh

ive even tried windows package which should have everything installed, but no luck…still says my password is incorrect….huh?

Re: Pure Frustration

mrojas73 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:02:44 GMT

All sorts of problems, first of all the documentation is quite confusing…with tomcat or without tomcat, the linux install doesnt specify what is required.

I download linux install for centos, and make sure I have java (which one is needed?!?!), Openoffice, MySQL, etc etcl…all installed, all up to date.

then I run the install into /opt/Alfresco and modify the alfresco.sh…because I figure it out from reading countless forums but NOWHERE in the install documentation does it say I need to?!

ok, rant aside,

When I run the alfresco.sh start, it does stuff and then I wait a good 5 minutes until I am sure it is running…from the logs, it already complains it cant find imagemagick or openoffice, but but are installed and up to date.

Still, it runs, so I localhost:8080/share and get the login, but it wont take admin/admin password.

so I try localhost:8080/alfresco and get a tomcat error and go no further.

Ive installed dozens if not hundreds of opensource apps in linux, windows, osx, etc., but this one is quite frustrating.

here is what I want: yum install alfresco

heh

ive even tried windows package which should have everything installed, but no luck…still says my password is incorrect….huh?

It is easy…you need to make sure you have all the libraries and dependencies installed.

Once you do the install, you need to make a few changes on alfresco.sh and /Alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties and you should be to go.

This is a good guide but in version 3.2 they included the alfresco-global.properties I mentioned above…take a look at it and make the necesary modifications:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Labs_3_Stable_on_Debian_Etch

file: /opt/Alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-repository.properties

ooo.exe=/usr/bin/soffice

img.root=/usr # alfresco will add /bin/convert automatically
swf.exe=/usr/local/bin/pdf2swf # for this, use absolute Path if installed from source‍‍‍‍‍‍

Give it a try and report back.

Re: Pure Frustration

lrzuniga — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:24:37 GMT

It is easy…you need to make sure you have all the libraries and dependencies installed.

All the libraries and dependencies are installed and it wont launch.

Thanks for the offer of help, but I wont be expending any more energy on Alfresco. I'm going to stick with MS Sharepoint. or something that is better designed to install.

By the way, I even tried a VMWare image to try on our ESXi server and it wont launch either. How sad is that?

I've demo'd share, and think it is great, perfect for what I am trying to do, but I can't figure out for the life of me why the install is so poorly designed? Even the company that packages the vmware images calls it a "monstrous complexity".

Regards.

L.