topic Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM in Alfresco Archive

Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

jefflv — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:27:19 GMT

I have added a new Tomcat server to the development box running my Alfresco v3.2 server. I would like to have a deployment target that publishes my WCM website to a webapp folder in my new Tomcat. Therefore, I am trying to create a new filesystem deployment target (or modify the existing one, it doe

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

mrogers — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:46:29 GMT

In the web project definition you can configure the "WebApp", you have gone with the default value which is ROOT.

So point it at $tomcat/webapps and change the web app setting.

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

jefflv — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:43:08 GMT

What does "point it at" mean? Can you please be specific?

I created a new WebApp folder called "internalweb" and selected that value in the drop-down list above my Staging Sandbox. (This is my interpretation of "point it at".) I made no changes to neither target configuration nor Deployment Descriptor.

When I re-deploy, data continues be published to $tomcat/$project/ROOT, even after having restarted alfresco. As far as I can tell, the webapp folder is completely ignored by Alfresco.

Ideas?

Jeff

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

jefflv — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:26:49 GMT

….sooooooo…….no ideas?

As far as I can tell the webapp feature of WCM is nearly undocumented. Yes, it appears on a few wiki pages but I cannot find any documentation on how to use it.

Jeff

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

ilmartin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:18:13 GMT

Jeff, have you found a solution?. I'm trying to configure it and I have the same problem.

Thanks and regards, Iván.

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

kamal_ravichand — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:25:05 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Here are the steps you needed :

1) Browse to your web project(companyhome > webprojects > testsite)

2) Click on actions button and click on "Create web App folder", say 'test'

3) After creating a web app folder again click on actions and click on "edit webproject settings"

4) In the first step of edit web project settings screen you can find a drop down asking for "Default Web app". choose "test" as default webapp

5) Done!! now when you deploy your project a test folder will be created in webapps of your tomcat server or you create a folder named "test" in webapps

NOTE: the content already present in ROOT web app wont be available in test webapp. The above said steps are recommended to follow before you start creating content in your web project

GOOD LUCK

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

murali — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:39:05 GMT

Hi
i am new for Alfresco.

Any one tell me how to change deployement folder instead of ROOT folder. i was tried but i am not getting my webapp files.

How to get Created WebApp files. Both servers are runnng in machine only.

Regards,
P.Murali.

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

mrogers — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:49:51 GMT

There's two settings you may set.

The first is on the alfresco authoring side where you can select the sourcePath in the deployment receiver configuration. You may want to set sourcePath to "ROOT" if you don't want ROOT webapp to be part of the path. Which means deploy all files/folders below ROOT.

The second setting is on the receiving side where you specify where you want the deployment to go.

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

murali — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:28:52 GMT

Hi,

i want to deploye my webapp into tomcat/webapps/"mywebapps" .

how can i set deployemnt receiver .

regards,
P.Murali.

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

mrogers — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:34:09 GMT

Set the root directory property of your target definition.

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

djyahoo — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:02:08 GMT

Jefflv wrote :

I have followed the instructions at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/WCM_Deplo … ne#Targets and http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Syst … ent_Target, but I must say, these sections leave as much as they cover, so it feels like a guessing game. (It sure would be nice to have step-by-step instructions on how to complete what should be these very simple tasks.)

I totally agree ! Does anyone could point a document or write here some documentation about how one can set up a deploiement on another file system or server ? I'm thinking about giving up…
Maybe Jefflv can share with his own experience ?

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

djyahoo — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:14:44 GMT

At least I managed to deploy 'something' today !

Here is the information that was missing to me :
One way to setting up a deploiement process is to use a 'Alfresci deploiement receiver'. It is a separate component, to download and to install on the remote server (the apache server for example).
1) So install it
2) Start the Alfresco WCM on one server (I assume you have succeeded in installing it before reading this post)
3) Start the deploiement receiver on the target server
4) Configure your webapp in Alfresco WCM in order to set up a deployment server, whose values are corresponding to your deploiement receiver (ip, port and user password you defined during the installation of the DeploymentServer : these are also editable in {DeploymentReceiverHome]\deploiement.properties). For the port, you have to use the RMI port of the deploiement receiver (44100 is the default one)
5) Try to deploy a snapshot… It should be successful now

So that was for the 'standalone deploiement engine' process. You have to know that there is another way for deploying : the 'repository based WDR receiver Subsystem', but I'm not cumfortable enough with this concept to deal with it… at this moment.

You can read http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24472&p=84493#p84488 (two messages) for related information.

I apologize because I notice today that my previous message wasn't in the aim of this topic.

Re: Filesystem Deployment Target for WCM

bnordgren — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:41:59 GMT

So that was for the 'standalone deploiement engine' process. You have to know that there is another way for deploying : the 'repository based WDR receiver Subsystem', but I'm not cumfortable enough with this concept to deal with it… at this moment.

The "wcm_deployment_receiver" subsystem appears to have a single type configured (called "default") which is set up to publish the service as Java RMI. I spent a lot of the week trying to figure out how to reconfigure the service as HTTP. I have made a start at it here, but it currently does not appear to be working. On the way to writing that wiki page, I wrote a lot of "spring configuration reference" wiki pages for the filesystem deployment target, deployment receiver engine, etc. Most of these can be found on this category page. Any help getting this working would be greatly appreciated.