topic Re: INSTALLATION DOES NOT WORK in Alfresco Archive

INSTALLATION DOES NOT WORK

tcrabtree21 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:47:57 GMT

I have spent three days trying to install Alfresco on Windows 2003 R2. I have used the full install executable. I have also installed the JDK and OOo separately and tried installing. It does not work at all. When I goto http://localhost:8080/alfresco I get "The page cannot be displayed" error every

Re: INSTALLATION DOES NOT WORK

mrogers — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:45:43 GMT

Forget the war file until you get the full bundle working.
Forget about open office for now.

One common problem can be that alfresco takes some time to initialise (up to 10 mins) and impatient people shut it down before its started.

You got as far as creating a database. That's a good step forward.

Get back to the situation which creates a database with my sql, you should see some output on Tomcat's console which will help diagnose the problem.

Re: INSTALLATION DOES NOT WORK

nadaoneal — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:03:45 GMT

Were you able to locate the catalina.out tomcat log file? That will give you a lot more information about what the problem is.