topic Unable to login as Guest in Alfresco Archive

Unable to login as Guest

doblek — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:47:32 GMT

Hi all,I am installing Alfresco (version: alfresco-src-1.2.0) over the following environment:- WindowsXP- Tomcat 5.5.x- MySQL 5.0- Java 1.5.0In my first attempt, with a "fresh" copy of Tomcat, I didn't have any problem and I could log as Guest without trouble.But now, I've reinstalled alfresco after

Re: Unable to login as Guest

kevinr — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:59:19 GMT

You say you've re-installed Alfresco - does that mean you have removed or changed the location of the alf_data directory? The errors you are seeing are related to the fact that the indexes cannot be found - they are stored in the alf_data directory. Generally you find it under tomcat/bin. Are you starting tomcat from a different start location?

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Unable to login as Guest

doblek — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:26:53 GMT

Hi, Kevin!

Yes, I've installed once, but I went through some problems with Tomcat, so I uninstalled and reinstalled Tomcat several times. I followed the same steps in order to get Alfresco installed (well, I skipped the database part since I didn't touch it since the first time), but this time I get a different result.

Well, I've installed Tomcat in another location, so I guess we could say that "alf_data" directory has been removed from the original location and now it's placed in a folder with a path different from the path of the very first time.
So… I think I've lost that indexes…

Regards.

Re: Unable to login as Guest

dschmalz — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:02:25 GMT

Did you try to drop the db and start from a clean repository at the same time, i.e. :

- stop tomcat
- remove the alfresco db (using db_remove.sql)
- create the aflresco db (using db_setup.sql)
- remove alf_data and subdirectories
- restart tomcat

David

Re: Unable to login as Guest

doblek — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:16:03 GMT

Hi!

I've dropped the database and created another one with the same name.
Then, I rebuild Alfresco and… it worked!

Thanks a lot!

Re: Unable to login as Guest

sjavey — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:48:33 GMT

I was able to run alfresco using the bundled Tomcat. Next I tried deploying the alfresco.war on a stand alone version of Tomcat 5.5.16. Alfresco is successfully started but I'm unable to login using the default admin/admin. I then droped the database and recreated it and it worked.

Why is that? Why do I've to drop & recreate the database?

Thank you.

Re: Unable to login as Guest

dreddy — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:19:30 GMT

Hi,

Can you help me how to sync the indexes/content if alf_data location is different. If I configure a replicating content store with secondary store as a common store(say a database for which I have DBContentStore implementation) whose location never changes but primary store location may change and its content and indexed may be empty. This will happen if I embed alfreco in my application which runs in a cluster on different machines.

When I try the above setup I am getting Bad Credentials exception when I start embedded alfresco with a different file store backed by central db store.

Thanks in advance for your help
dReddy

Re: Unable to login as Guest

dreddy — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:01:41 GMT

I solved this by configuring "indexRecoveryComponent" to do executeFullRecovery so that new alfresco instances who don't have indexes recover the indexes and then every thing works. Primary store gets the content from secondary (central DBContentStore) using ReplicatingContentStore.

Thanks
dReddy