topic Re: Preview Website in sandbox in Alfresco Archive

Preview Website in sandbox

keerthi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:25:32 GMT

hi ,i m new to alfreco, i have created a web page name called mysite with the help of alfresco Studio, now i want to deploy my web page.. For this i did the following steps..1. browse the alfresco url http://203.193.158.170:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/dialog/container.jsp2. select company home and selec

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

rockycres — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:12:28 GMT

Hi,
U need to have the virtualisation server running in order to preview the website.Run the virtual_start.sh script & try it..Thanks..

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

keerthi — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:52:48 GMT

Hi,

I tried what u said, but still i m getting the same error message.. could u please help me resolve it..

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

v912485 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:48:09 GMT

Hi,

The out of the box preview works only if you have alfresco running on your local machine.
If you want to have the preview running on a remote machine you can get it to work in 2 ways:
- Simplest, modify your host file with admin.mysite.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net pointing to the remote machine.
- Or modify $VIRTUAL_TOMCAT/conf/alfresco-virtserver.properties and set the value alfresco.virtserver.domain to a proper domain that points to that server. Please note that you need a wildcard for the subdomains to point to that server.

Allan

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

kmehta31 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:48:49 GMT

If you are facing this issue on windows then…

If you have already made entries in your host file then on windows you need to stop proxy if you are using one.
Else hosts file on windows would never be read…

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

keerthi — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:02:42 GMT

Hi,

Could you please tel me in detail. when i hit the perview website in sandbox it showing the same error page with "page cannot be displayed"

entry in host file as folows
127.0.0.1 emeraldhealthservices.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net

and i have started the virtual tomcat. still no use..

Please help me to "preview the website"

Thanks.

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

samuel_penn — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:15:43 GMT

The hosts file needs to point to the server Alfresco is running on. Your configuration shows that it's configured to point to your local machine. I think you probably need:

203.193.158.170 emeraldhealthservices.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net

I'm assuming that your virtual server is running on 203.193.158.170, which your original post seemed to suggest. Alternatively, you could manually change the 127-0-0-1 part of the URL in your browser to 203-193-158-170 after it errors.

Changing the alfresco-virtserver.properties configuration on the server (as mentioned in a previous reply) is the real fix however.

Sam.

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

keerthi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:25:39 GMT

Hi Sam,

Thanks for your reply.

But am running this virtual tomcat in the same machine which alfresco is running..
So i gave the entry in host as follows

alfresco.virtserver.domain=192-168-17-33.ip.alfrescodemo.net

but still am getting the same error page. The error message "The webpage cannot be found"

Thanks

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

samuel_penn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:58:38 GMT

Your original post implied that the IP address that you were accessing Alfresco on as 203.193.158.170, which is why I assumed the virtual server was there.

Depending on your firewall settings, you may not be able to resolve the URL properly if the DNS lookup is being blocked.

I assume then that the virtual server is running on 192-168-17-33

What happens if you ping 192-168-17-33.ip.alfrescodemo.net from your client? Does the hostname resolve to 192.168.17.33?

What actual error do you get when trying to browse the virtual server? Is it a 404 error (page not found), or does it fail to find the server?

What URL is given when you click on preview in Alfresco now? It should be http://admin.mysite.www--sandbox.192-168-17-33.ip.alfrescodemo.net:8180/

What do you have in your /etc/hosts file?

Sam.

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

keerthi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:34:17 GMT

hi Sam,

I can able to ping
C:\Documents and Settings\keerthi>ping 192-168-17-33.ip.alfrescodemo.net

Pinging 192-168-17-33.ip.alfrescodemo.net [192.168.17.33] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.17.33: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.17.33: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.17.33: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.17.33: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.17.33:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

and its 404 error page cannot be found error

When i hit the link "website preview" its giving the following url

http://admin.emeraldhealthservices.www--sandbox.192-168-17-33.ip.alfrescodemo.net:8180/

And my host file oncludes following
127.0.0.1       localhost

192.168.17.33 192-168-17-33.ip.alfrescodemo.net
192.168.17.33 emeraldhealthservices.www–sandbox.192-168-17-33.ip.alfrescodemo.net
192.168.17.33 admin.emeraldhealthservices.www–sandbox.192-168-17-33.ip.alfrescodemo.net

127.0.0.1 127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1 emeraldhealthservices.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1 admin.emeraldhealthservices.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net

Please help me to resolve it…

Thanks
Keerthi

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

samuel_penn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:21:19 GMT

If it's a 404, then you've found the server, but it hasn't found a page on the server. The URL:

http://admin.emeraldhealthservices.www--sandbox.192-168-17-33.ip.alfrescodemo.net:8180/

will be looking for an index.html or index.jsp file, and if you don't have one of those you'll get a 404.

All the above suggests that the preview server is setup correctly, and that your browser can connect to it, it just can't find a valid page. Do you have any content in that sandbox at all? I'm guessing that if you try to preview an actual page, then it'll work. Alternatively, create an index.html in the sandbox and previewing the website should display that.

NB: Just noticed that you're using Alfresco Studio, which I haven't really used. I'm assuming things will work the same as for WCM.

Sam.

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

keerthi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:34:22 GMT

Hi Sam,

Could you please tell me in detail about the wcm. If you have any guidelines kindly send it to me. And one more thing is surf framework and wcm is one and the same..? Because my requirement is to create a web site and deploy it into production server. If i use surf i need to create all xml files manually for page,template,template instance,etc.. Is there any other suggestions to create a web site..?

If i will use wcm, is that help me. If yes kindly let me know how to start with wcm.

Thanks

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

keerthi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:25:23 GMT

And the error which i have told you in previous reply, the 404 error is

HTTP Status 404 - /WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-data/configurations/studio.site.configuration.xml

——————————————————————————–

type Status report

message /WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-data/configurations/studio.site.configuration.xml

description The requested resource (/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-data/configurations/studio.site.configuration.xml) is not available.

——————————————————————————–

Apache Tomcat/5.5

Thanks

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

samuel_penn — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:10:04 GMT

First of all, have you tried the tutorials? See: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Studio_Tutorials

They should show you how to generate content in Web Studio and get things working.

Studio is a more 'graphical' way of designing websites than pure WCM. You can actually view your studio site in WCM by going to Company Home/Web Projects/mysite in the standard WebUI view.

Information on WCM can be found on the wiki here:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Category:WCM

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

biswajit — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:15:11 GMT

Hi ,
I have ssame problem when i click preview template button it shows 404 not found error.
Url is:http://green.www--sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net:8180/
Please tell me how i resolve it.
Thanks

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

keerthi — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:33:16 GMT

Hi Sam,

Thanks for reply.

I want to know how to change the content in web page using wcm. And also could you please tel me in detail about the web forms. Is that help me to design the templates,pages,web-scripts,etc… If so how i ll change the index.jsp.

Thanks

Re: Preview Website in sandbox

samuel_penn — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:42:12 GMT

How you change WCM content depends on what it is. If it's a simple file (HTML for example) that you've added, then you can edit it in CIFS as you would any other file. If it's form data, then you edit the .xml using the WebUI, and the content rendition will be automatically generated when you've finished. It's probably best to look at some of the tutorials, since they'll cover things in a lot more detail than I could in a forum post.

There's a tutorial for WCM which can be downloaded here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/alfresco/WCM2_1-Product-Evaluation-Guide.pdf?modtime=1189681995&big_mirror=0

The wiki also has a tutorial on web forms: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/WCM_Forms_Quick_Tutorial

Sam.