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Changing Alfresco's context root

inspiron82 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:39:53 GMT

Hi,actually i deploy alfresco.war in jboss, and i can access alfresco using http://<server-ip>:<port>/alfresco‍‍‍Now i really need to access alfresco using http://<server-ip>:<port>/SOMETHING_ELSE‍‍‍Do you know which configuration files I need to edit and in which way?thanks

Re: Changing Alfresco's context root

mikeh — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:44:28 GMT

You can just rename the .war, but you might find places where /alfresco is referenced directly.

The better way would probably to put a redirection rule in-place which remapped requests for /alfresco to /somethingElse on the server.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Changing Alfresco's context root

inspiron82 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:07:26 GMT

I need to hae two instances of Alfresco on the same server.
One


http://<server-ip>:<port>/alfresco
‍‍‍

and the other


http://<server-ip>:<port>/SOMETHING_ELSE
‍‍‍

How can i tell the first istance to use


/server/conf/alfresco/extension
‍‍‍

and the second to use


/server/conf/SOMETHING_ELSE/extension
‍‍‍

?

thanks

Re: Changing Alfresco's context root

mikeh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:16:53 GMT

You don't. That's not going to work for a number of reasons - just one of which is the extensions mechanism.

If you want multiple Alfresco instances on the same server, either take a look at Multi Tenancy or consider using a VM instead.

Mike

Re: Changing Alfresco's context root

inspiron82 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:02:32 GMT

I need to have two instances of alfresco using the same alf_data directory and the same database, as i just need to have two different layout for the same alfresco's data.

I succeded in deployng two instances of alfresco:


http://<server-ip>:<port>/alfresco
‍‍‍

and


http://<server-ip>:<port>/alfresco_default
‍‍‍

one with the original layout and the other with the modified layout.

Both of them use the configuration folder


/server/conf/alfresco/extension
‍‍‍

the only problem is that in extension I setted the ldap-synchronisation of users ang groups of Active Directory, but i want just one of the istances to synchronize users and groups to avoid conflicts during the contemporary synchronizations.

I tought to make a new extension folder in


/server/conf/alfresco_default/extension
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equal to the oiginal extension folder except for


ldap-synchronisation-context.xml  –> ldap-synchronisation-context.xml.sample
ldap-synchronisation.properties     –>  ldap-synchronisation.properties
‍‍‍‍

can u help me?

thanks

Re: Changing Alfresco's context root

inspiron82 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:29:53 GMT

by the way, my final goal is to have two visualization of Alfresco using the same database schema and the same alf_data.

Do u hne any suggestions?
Thanls a lot.

Re: Changing Alfresco's context root

mrogers — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:03:35 GMT

Clustering is the usual way of having more than one instance of alfresco sharing the same database schema.

Then you won't need to fiddle around with trying to work around the synchronisation issues.

Re: Changing Alfresco's context root

inspiron82 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:10:09 GMT

Thanks a lot.

Can u tell me if and where can i configure the location of the extension folder?

thanks