topic Re: Getting Started in Alfresco Archive

Getting Started

ollit — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:07:47 GMT

Hello,i ahve installed Alfresco 3.4.a on my local machine. Download source was http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_Community_Edition.Installation went fine with all components and i soon could bet it to work. So i followed the getting started for the Web Quick Start and importet the example files

Re: Getting Started

ben — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:17:05 GMT

Hi Olli,

When you say the install went OK, I assume you have added the dashlet and imported the Web QS site structure? Can you navigate this structure within the Document Library successfully i.e. see blogs, news, publications etc?

Is the web application (wcmqs.war) running on port 8080?

Regards, Ben.

Re: Getting Started

ollit — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:23:47 GMT

As i followed all steps successfully i have browsable folders in the document library of the page (by the way all index.html files are empty as i found out by downloading and opening in an editor).

And yes it runs on port 8080. Honestly i do not even know how to change the port on which it is running.

Kind regards Olli

Re: Getting Started

bremmington — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:53:04 GMT

Olli

It is correct that the index.html nodes are empty. This is expected.

I presume you used the Web Quick Start dashlet to import the data (it won't work if you manually import the ACP file). Is it just the home page that's failing, or do all pages fail? For example, if you point your browser at http://localhost:8080/wcmqs/blog/blog1.html then do you see anything different?

If not, it would be useful to understand precisely what steps you took to get it installed. Which document were you referring to?

Re: Getting Started

ollit — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:11:31 GMT

Hi again,

if i open the link you posted i get the same error page as before. Amnd i used the dashlet to import as written below.

Here are the steops i followed:

via the http://www.alfresco.com/de/media/releases/2010/10/community-3.4/ Press Release i went to the download page.

I followed the installation isntruction in the http://wiki.alfresco.com/w/images/6/63/Alfresco_Community_3_4_a_Windows_Simple_Install.pdf document.

After the installation was completed i opened alfresco share http://localhost:8080/share/.

Then i followed the getting started with the following resources: http://www.benh.co.uk/alfresco/web-quick-start/web-quick-start-first-look/ and http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Quick_Start_Installation_and_Configuration

That is what i did and the result is that i see nothing as you see.

Re: Getting Started

bremmington — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:05:50 GMT

Very strange. We have many people up and running with this, so we need to work out what's different.

When you say that you see nothing, do you mean that the screen is entirely blank? No Alfresco logo? Nothing at all? Do you have anywhere you can post screenshots that I'd be able to see? If you do, then it would be useful to see shots in Share and of the blank page.

Sorry to just keep bombarding you with questions, but I'm currently very unsure what could have caused what you're reporting.

Re: Getting Started

ollit — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:33:58 GMT

Hello,

this morning i proceeded a complete4 new installation and finally get the same result. the page is not a blank page there is an alfresci - alfresco WCM Quickstart Logo on the top left and links to home and contact. followed by a line and the text:

Error
Sorry there seems to be a problem with this part of the page

followed by a line and a link to alfresco.com

So, you do not have to hurry finding a solution anyway - after the experience of the past week concerning alfresco, its installation its usage and mainly its documentation we will not follow the alfresco track any more.

Re: Getting Started

bremmington — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:33:52 GMT

Sorry to hear that, Olli.

Re: Getting Started

utmichael — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:39:00 GMT

I'm having the same issue that Olli was having. I did a default install of 3.4a and installed the Quick Start and I get "Sorry, there seems to be a problem with this part of the page" every time. I'm on Windows Server 2003 32bit.

I've tried installing it a few ways but I can't even get it to work leaving everything as default. Any suggestions? Anyone else having the same problems?

Re: Getting Started

bremmington — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:58:18 GMT

OK. There's clearly some kind of problem - it should "simply work".

Please would you confirm first of all that you are running it on localhost port 8080. Secondly, would you mind telling me what the default locale of your machine is?

Re: Getting Started

utmichael — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:38:11 GMT

It's running on 8080. On the last install I did I selected the Easy install and the only change I made was to install to the 😧 drive instead on the C: drive. I took all the default ports and left the ip adrress for Tomcat 127.0.0.1, that way I could setup the WQS and hit the site with the complete default setup and it didn't work.

Thanks for your quick response!

Default locale: Active code page: 437 US ASCII

Re: Getting Started

bremmington — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:15:11 GMT

OK. I was concerned that there may have been an issue with certain locales (fixed on the current code line), but I know that many people in the US have Web Quick Start running fine.

I'm not sure how technical you are, but in order for me to work out what may be happening it would be really useful if you would make a little change and let me know the result.

Stop Alfresco

Below your Tomcat folder you will see a file located at "webapps/wcmqs/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.xml". Open this file in a text editor, and completely replace its content with this:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration PUBLIC "-//LOGGER" "../dtd/log4j.dtd">
<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">
   <appender name="console" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
      <param name="Target" value="System.out" />
      <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p: %c - %m%n" />
      </layout>
   </appender>
   <appender name="file" class="org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender">
      <param name="File" value="webquickstart.log" />
      <param name="Append" value="true" />
      <param name="Encoding" value="UTF-8" />
      <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd" />
      <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p [%c] %m%n" />
      </layout>
   </appender>
   <logger name="org.alfresco.wcm">
      <level value="debug" />
   </logger>
   <root>
      <priority value="warn" />
      <appender-ref ref="console" />
      <appender-ref ref="file" />
   </root>
</log4j:configuration>
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Start Alfresco

From your browser, make a single request for "http://localhost:8080/wcmqs/". Note that it is important that you use "localhost" and not "127.0.0.1".

In your Tomcat folder you should see a new file located at "bin/webquickstart.log". Please copy the content of that file into a reply on this forum thread

As I say, I'm not sure whether you are technical or not, so please come back to me if any of that makes no sense.

Regards

Re: Getting Started

utmichael — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:53:03 GMT

I'm the sys admin for our group, so I do understand some technical speak. Here's what I'm seeing.

I updated the log4j file and it's not writing any logs. It's also not giving any error messages in the stdout log when restarting tomcat.

The only thing I see in the logs is when I hit the http://localhost:8080/wcmqs/ is this debug message in the stdout log:

DEBUG: org.alfresco.wcm.client.exceptionresolver.RepositoryExceptionResolver - Resolving exception from handler [org.alfresco.wcm.client.controller.GenericTemplateAssetController@15ac99]: org.alfresco.wcm.client.exception.RepositoryUnavailableException
DEBUG: org.alfresco.wcm.client.exceptionresolver.RepositoryExceptionResolver - Resolving to default view '500page' for exception of type [org.alfresco.wcm.client.exception.RepositoryUnavailableException]
DEBUG: org.alfresco.wcm.client.exceptionresolver.RepositoryExceptionResolver - Exposing Exception as model attribute 'exception'

Re: Getting Started

bremmington — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:34:00 GMT

Thanks. Strange about the log file - it must be there somewhere - but that snippet that you entered gives some clues.

That error indicates that the Quick Start web application can't connect to the Alfresco repository, and, assuming that you used the standard installer and don't have any other Alfresco instances running on the same machine, this may mean that some kind of error occurred when bringing the repository up. Can you login to Share successfully (http://localhost:8080/share/)?

Re: Getting Started

calamarz — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:49:01 GMT

Hello i've the same problem with a 3.4a Version, it's a bug https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-4721?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Aall-tabpanel#issue-tabs.

I try a 3.4b (download here: http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/) on my fresh install (Ubuntu 10.04 64 bits) the problem persists

Re: Getting Started

bremmington — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:04:48 GMT

Thanks calamarz. That particular bug was closed back on 4th October. It's possible that it's reoccurring, but we can't reproduce it here - and many people have it working successfully - so we could use some help to identify what might be different on the machines where it's failing. Would you mind telling me what locale you have set as the default on your machine?

Re: Getting Started

bremmington — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:49:19 GMT

I've just completed a series of tests including installing both 3.4.a and 3.4.b nightly build on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit (using English, Norwegian, and Arabic installs). They all worked without any problem, but then I thought about what assumptions I'd made when installing, and I think I know what's causing the problem.

The Web Quick Start API connects and authenticates to the Alfresco repository. It has a few properties that it uses to do this: "wcmqs.api.alfresco", "wcmqs.api.user", and "wcmqs.api.password". In 3.4.b (the nightly build) these can be overridden by placing the required values in a file named "wqsapi-custom.properties" located in the directory "tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension". By default, these properties are:


wcmqs.api.alfresco=http://localhost:8080/alfresco
wcmqs.api.user=admin
wcmqs.api.password=admin
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so they need changing if you use a port different to 8080 and an admin password different from "admin".

In 3.4.a, the way to override these properties is a little different. In that version, create a file named "wcmqs-api.properties" in the folder "tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco". In that file, copy the following:


wcmqs.api.alfresco=http://localhost:8080/alfresco
wcmqs.api.user=admin
wcmqs.api.password=admin
wcmqs.api.alfresco.cmis=%{wcmqs.api.alfresco}/service/cmis
wcmqs.api.alfresco.webscript=%{wcmqs.api.alfresco}/service/api/
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and then edit the values as necessary.

This is a fault in the way the installation works, and we'll work on correcting that over the next day or two on the 3.4.b stream. Apologies for the inconvenience that this has caused, and thanks for reporting it.

Regards

Re: Getting Started

bremmington — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:18:51 GMT

The installer has just been fixed on HEAD, so the next nightly build will contain that fix.

Note that if you choose a port other than 8080 when installing then you will have to alter the "Host Port" property on the folder named "Quick Start Editorial" that you will find in the Document Library after importing the Web Quick Start data. This is set to 8080 by default.

In this situation, the steps needed to do that are:

Install Alfresco with Web Quick Start (select the port number that you want - "8888", for example)

In Share, create a new Share site

Customise the dashboard of the Share site to include the Web Quick Start dashlet

Use the Web Quick Start dashlet to import the Web Quick Start data

Go in to the document library and navigate into the "Alfresco Quick Start" folder

In the list of actions available for the "Quick Start Editorial" folder select "Edit Metadata"

In the form that appears change the "Host Port" property to be 8888 and then click "Submit"

Re: Getting Started

georgo — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:15:48 GMT

Hi, I'm having the same issue. I changed admin's password and want to use the user alfresco to connect with CMIS. I'm using alfresco-community-3.4.b and changed the username/password in these files:

fgrep -RH .user=alfresco *

tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/wcmqs-api.properties:wcmqs.api.user=alfresco
tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/wqsapi-custom.properties:wcmqs.api.user=alfresco
tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/wcmqs-api.properties:wcmqs.api.user=alfresco
tomcat/webapps/wcmqs/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/wcmqs-api.properties:wcmqs.api.user=alfresco
virtual-tomcat/conf/alfresco-virtserver.properties:alfresco.server.user=alfresco

I enabled the debug flag in log4j and get this error:

DEBUG: org.alfresco.wcm.client.exceptionresolver.RepositoryExceptionResolver - Resolving exception from handler [org.alfresco.wcm.client.controller.GenericTemplateAssetController@1006ab6]: org.alfresco.wcm.client.exception.RepositoryUnavailableException: org.apache.chemistry.opencmis.commons.exceptions.CmisConnectionException: Parsing exception!
DEBUG: org.alfresco.wcm.client.exceptionresolver.RepositoryExceptionResolver - Resolving to default view '500page' for exception of type [org.alfresco.wcm.client.exception.RepositoryUnavailableException]
DEBUG: org.alfresco.wcm.client.exceptionresolver.RepositoryExceptionResolver - Exposing Exception as model attribute 'exception'

Am I missing a property file?

thanks in advance,
Jorge

Re: Getting Started

bremmington — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:01:55 GMT

Jorge

Presumably you have created the "alfresco" user in the repository and have specified the correct password for that user in the WQS properties file? What permissions have you given that user?