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Configure Alfresco to use a proxy server

rbowman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:13:56 GMT

Hello!Is there any way to configure Alfresco to use a proxy server? Here's the problem I am facing.When using Web Studio, when I go to create a new website, I get the following error:14:00:22,567 DEBUG [web.scripts.AbstractRuntime] Caught exception: org.alfresco.web.scripts.WebScriptException: Fai

Re: Configure Alfresco to use a proxy server

rbowman — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:54:50 GMT

Is there seriously no one that can help? I know that I can't be the only person trying to install alfresco behind a corporate proxy server…

I'll take any kind of answer at this point. Knowing something is better than knowing nothing, so if this is not possible, please let me know!

Thanks,
-Roger

Re: Configure Alfresco to use a proxy server

nhienmai — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:34:21 GMT

It is likely that this is a current limit of Alfresco. See more details at https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-1518

Good news is it was fixed. Bad news is the fix has not been merged to the public repos, in case you want to roll out the fix by yourself.

Re: Configure Alfresco to use a proxy server

mikeh — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:22:14 GMT

It is likely that this is a current limit of Alfresco. See more details at https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-1518

Good news is it was fixed. Bad news is the fix has not been merged to the public repos, in case you want to roll out the fix by yourself.

I'll see if I can get it merged across sooner rather than later.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Configure Alfresco to use a proxy server

nhienmai — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:53:00 GMT

It's great! We will apply the fix to our system right after is it available. Currently, beside Google docs, a few other features in Share (like RSS) do not work due to this limit.

Thank you, Mike, for your invaluable support.

Regards,
Nhien

Re: Configure Alfresco to use a proxy server

nhienmai — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:31:44 GMT

As per described in http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-1518, it is likeley that Alfresco Community 3.4b now support proxy server. So we tried to configure Alfresco Share again for Google Docs checkout.

After following the guidelines in http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=35227, we got the Google Docs menu displayed as in 3.3g. Great!

Next, tried to create a Google Docs Document using the drop-down menu - Document was created successfully. So far so good …

Then tried to check it out to Google Docs - Bump! Fail to make connection to Google!

Hmmmm, It is likely that we need to make some additional configurations in Share for our corporate proxy server.
Refer to the comment from Afresco QA Team in http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-1518, we tried to make some modifications in file /opt/Alfresco/tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh as follows:

From:


export JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xms128m -Xmx768m -Dalfresco.home=/opt/Alfresco -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote"
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To:


export JAVA_OPTS=" -Dhttp.proxyHost=xxx.25.254.9 -Dhttp.proxyPort=8000 -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xms128m -Xmx768m -Dalfresco.home=/opt/Alfresco -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote"
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Restart Alfresco. No errors happened. Login to Alfresco Explorer was OK.
However, when login to Share, an error message displayed as:

The remote server may be unavailable or your authentication details have not been recognized.

We are getting stuck now and can't find any other clues to go further. Could any people in Alfresco QA Team please give us some hints which you did in proxy configuration to get Alfresco Share working with Google Docs. Thanks a lot.