topic Re: Creation of new share site susing 'create-site' in Alfresco Archive

Creation of new share site susing 'create-site'

orichaud — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:01:33 GMT

Hi,I'm trying to programmatically create a new Alfresco Share site using calls to REST services.I have initially tried to simply call the ALfresco REST API (not the Share API) but I rapidly discovered that although the site is created, a second step was necessary to get an active site (the documentL

Re: Creation of new share site susing 'create-site'

jpotts — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:13:56 GMT

Part of the problem is that Share expects different headers in its REST requests than the repository tier. Something like this will work:

curl "http://localhost:8081/share/service/someWebScript" –header "Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8" –header "Accept-Language:en"

But what I'm still trying to figure out is the authentication piece with Share web scripts. When you pass in username/password or tickets to a Share web script, when it makes remote connections back to the repository tier, it does so as Guest. Not sure what's up with that.

Jeff

Re: Creation of new share site susing 'create-site'

erikwinlof — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:39:14 GMT

Hi,

Would you mind send the code you are executing and describe from where you're executing it.

Cheers,

:: Erik

Re: Creation of new share site susing 'create-site'

barbara — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:18:33 GMT

Hi,

did you manage to solve this? I am having the same problem…

Re: Creation of new share site susing 'create-site'

joemc3 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:02:54 GMT

I recently had the same problem. I posted my solution here:

https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=46259&p=138469#p138469