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Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

pmminov — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:01:26 GMT

Hi everyone,I wanted to write this post about my findings to help anyone who knows as little as me of Alfresco and Liferay and also asking for help in a few things that I can not make workI started installing Alfresco from the community full installer, mainly to know how it works, then I deployed Al

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

pmminov — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:50:56 GMT

If you want to add Alfresco as a set of portlets the solution, thanks to jonas yuan, is in this link

http://www.liferay.com/web/jonas.yuan/blog/-/blogs/integrating-alfresco-web-client-as-a-set-of-portlets-with-liferay;jsessionid=1C03835A5E14F814244EE67B8D34D86A

I got CIFS working now, found this link

http://google-ecm.blogspot.com/2009/11/alfresco-cifs-on-windows-xp.html

There it mentions to create a file-server-custom.xml in alfresco/extension package, but theres already one with the .sample extension, remove that extension and CIFS will be operational, havent tried it on the portlet version insdie Liferay yet, but if WebDAV works on both I guess it will work too

Now just the SSO and the MagickImage and Pdf2Swf missing

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

murphyshyamala — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:14:34 GMT

Thanx for the post

The CSS trick really helped

looking forward for the SSO solution

Thanks again

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

pmminov — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:23:18 GMT

I completely forgot about this post

Well about the SSO, I've been reading a lot

First, this approach is meant to be called "running Alfresco WEBSCRIPTS as portlets"

This explains why the SSO works for 5 of the 6 portlets, because if u check the portlet.xml they use a JSR-186 web script compliant class, so they do work with the portlet log in, as long as alfresco got a user with the same screename as liferay

HOWEVER

The web content script, got its own authentication mechanism, despite the fact theres a wiki for Alfresco and CAS SSO and that it works, as soon as u deploy this as a portlet it won't work, my closest finding was this post http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11970, which got no solution

Ye i thought it was something like "since its a webscript all we gotta do is change the authentication filter" but nope, so the final question would be

¿¿¿ How to auth the wcm web script with CAS ??? I got no ideas on how to debug this and check whats the difference between doing CAS inside and outside Liferay

plz anybody….

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

murphyshyamala — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:06:43 GMT

rivert logic has a solution but alfresco and liferay must here to different ports

I guess we may have to change the port number in server.xml

http://wiki.rivetlogic.com/display/AWPr/Documentation#Documentation-Installation

I did not try this one yet, I'm trying to see if alfresco alone can solve my problem.

please let me know if this was any good

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

pmminov — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:35:30 GMT

I was trying to set the portlet and I never could set the configuration of it correctly, I made it work with their example portlet but when i tried to use the myspaces example they got it kept saying there was an authentication error, I installed STAr but still kept without working

Also I found that it doesnt display all the objects properly, so I stop looking that way

I would definetely be happy using the My spaces portlet but Liferay got a situation about AJAX and URLs that keeps the upload button from working properly

My only solution would be to use the Web Client portlet, There's gotta be someone who knows how to make CAS work with that specific portlet or why it doesn't work

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

pmminov — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:47:27 GMT

Well, today I conclude my search for integration

I want to summarize all my attemps and i hope this thread never dies, maybe go to wiki, and that we all find solutions to this, a standar maybe

- I tried to run the webscripts as Liferay portlets, its pretty simple, information is supplied by Jonas Yuan in his Liferay Blog, and its cool because it makes alfresco part of Liferay

PROS: A bit less time on load, it uses the same resources like JSF libraries and stuff and configuration is 0, just drag and drop
CONS: You can't access Alfresco only anymore, because it uses Liferay's Web Context
TO BE FIXED: There's an error about how URL and AJAX work on this scope, making the upload file button unable to work correctly, prolly Liferay bug, and I was never able to make SSO CAS work properly between Liferay and the WCM portlet (kept dropping me to login(guest)

- I tried AWPr which runs webscripts as well, they got their own site

PROS: You can use alfresco alone or in Liferay, so if you ened to split servers or urls one day this is the perfect solution
CONS: Although they got a wiki I couldn't configure it correctly on my own, it ask you to install things as modules and you got to do that on alfresco.war, I mean all this was a lot of trouble, and never made it work
TO BE FIXED: Better for-dummies wiki and step by step example, they should cover the 6 webscripts available not just 1 as example, some of us are not mere users but not hard developers either

- The winner…. CAS SSO and iFrame…., since i've been diggin and trying this for so long i had CAS, and I could confirm that Liferay and Alfresco worked correctly with CAS (showed login(user)) but running separatedly, i thought why not an iFrame? Both Liferay and Alfresco got sweet Wikis about CAS

PROS: Well documented, it works, and it doesn't generate any problem with JSF libraries, CSS or anything because you are pointing to an application with its own resources (there are no erros from Liferay and AJAX even), and all you need to do is place the URL
CONS: You are loading 2 apps now…. takes heavy time, and is not something to feel proud of, i mean… an iFrame…., will work only if u got CAS SSO set correctly on both sides

Theres also an iFrame approach without CAS, didnt tried it, i like my CAS works with LDAP so im not moving it, the link of this approach is this one http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/3456156

Thanks for reading, and all I hope is that if you ever face this problem this helps you, keep feeding this with solutions

CAS SSO and WCM web client is something that should be worked out somehow…

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

murphyshyamala — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:36:48 GMT

Hi

congrats looks like you got all figured out

I have tried CAS solution before but that did not work for me

In my case i'm using liferay 5.2.3, Alfresco 3.2 community and tomcat 6.0.18 I have apache directory server configured successfully but I'm unable to configure the CAS server need help with that.

please pass on if you have any information about ifarme

if you have time can you please give the step by step process

i would like to see this post in wikis

thanks in advance

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

pmminov — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:27:26 GMT

You got problems between LDAP and CAS or CAS with LR? or both?

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

murphyshyamala — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:19:16 GMT

CAS and LR

there are two thinks I need to figure out
1. setting up CAS
2. configuring it with LR

looking forward for 4 ur reply

thanks

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

pmminov — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:36:03 GMT

Installation of CAS is simple, just drop the .war in webapps folder

Information on how to setup CAS and Liferay can be found here: http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Single+SignOn+-+Integrating+Liferay+With+CAS+Server

Follow that link step by step and it will work, will tell you to modify some apache file to open port 8443 and generating a certificat, do that and stop at the end of the certificate part, the rest of things like modifying the web.xml are for older versions

Starting LR 5.2 you can set those parameters from the web.xml through protal-ext.properties, i wrote this

cas.auth.enabled=true
cas.import.from.ldap=false
cas.login.url=https://yourserver:8443/cas-web/login
cas.logout.url=https://yourserver:8443/cas-web/logout
cas.server.name=yourserver:8080
cas.server.url=https://yourserver:8443/cas-web
cas.service.url=
#cas.service.url=[http://yourserver:8080/c/portal/login]
cas.validate.url=https://yourserver:8443/cas-web/proxyValidate

For Alfresco the instructions are here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Central_Authentication_Service_Configuration, do exactly what it says there, summarizing you only have to dload 2 .jar files and place them on the alfresco WEB-INF/lib file, and you have to modify that web.xml file adding the CAS filter and modifying the Authentication filter

Starting from there both things work with one login, you can log first on LR and then open Alfresco or backwards, the iFrame just go to configuration and write Alfresco URL, like http://yourserver:8080/Alfresco

It is important to mention that you have to create users both on alfresco and liferay with the same screename and tell Liferay to authenticate users by screen name on control panel->settings->authentication on how to authenticate users

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

murphyshyamala — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:38:55 GMT

Hi,

I have used the same steps to set up my CAS last time but they did work as expected when I click the signin it was showing some page not found error.

but i will try the setup once again as you have suggested and see if that works.

yaa bout crceating the users in both alfresco and liferay seams to be one of the major problems, I was also trying to see if we can use any webscripts to create the users simultaneously in both liferay and alfresco.

thank you once again.

Re: Alfresco 3.2 and Liferay 5.3 observations and help

dward — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:03:20 GMT

FYI the share.war from Enterprise v3.2r will drop straight into Liferay and it has a demo portlet.xml showing webscripts running as portlets. This is no consolation for community users but look out for this in a future community release.