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Getting the 'preview website' to work (alf 3.2 on deb 5.0)

jonasn — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:30:55 GMT

HiWe are in the middle of setting up Alfreso. The administration interfaceseems to work flawlessly, yet we are unable to use the "preview website"function.We tried to follow, as closesly as possible the instrutions provided inthis tutorial, for setting up alfresco with the default tomcat server etc.

Re: Getting the 'preview website' to work (alf 3.2 on deb 5.0)

janv — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:25:57 GMT

You do not mention whether you actually started the Alfresco Virualization Server (virtual-tomcat) for example by running "virtual_server.sh" in a separate shell ? You will currently need this for OOTB preview (if using the virtualization server approach).

Here are some further references:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Labs_3_Stable_on_Debian_Etch#virtual_alf.sh
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_the_Virtualization_Server#Method_1:.C2.A0.C2.A0Using_ip.alfrescodemo.net
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Virtualization_Server_FAQ#What.27s_EchoDNS.3F

Regards,
Jan

Re: Getting the 'preview website' to work (alf 3.2 on deb 5.0)

jonasn — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:02:02 GMT

Thanks for the reply. Well. Virtual_alf.sh is started

It starts automatically in ./init.d/alfresco.script and I have started it manually afterwards.

However sometimes it says like this in the alfresco.log when I try to preview the site.

16:38:14,469 WARN [org.alfresco.web.config.ClientConfigElement] Virtualisation Server not started - reverting to default IP: 127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
16:38:14,470 WARN [org.alfresco.web.config.ClientConfigElement] Virtualisation Server not started - reverting to default port: 8180

I assumed it was because it wasn't started. If I start it again it just start a new java process but now I see that sometimes it might display the error message in alfresco.log again when I try to preview the site, even though it is started. I can see it is started because there is one more java process after I started it. If I try to stop it I get an error message. I have pasted the error message here: http://pastie.org/627501

Also I assumed that the catalina.out file were a log file specifically for virtual_alf, but maybe it isn't. How do I filter out log messages related to virtual_alf.sh catalina.out?is there a separate logifile for virtual_alf. As earlier written you can see my catalina.out file here:

http://pastie.org/627254

Maybe part of the problem is because I don't understand why the virtual server is necessary. Is this the only way I can see the site I have made. I have also tried to deploy the site. Can I see the deployed site without going through the virtual server?