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Change the hostname in url in invitation email

rhannink — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:01:43 GMT

Hello,Whenever I invite an external user from Alfresc Share, it sends an email containing an accept and reject link. Both links however have the intranet hostname http://share:8080 as hostname. While I would like this to be the FQD http://share.domain.nl:8080 so external users can directly use this

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

kweilbacher — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:16:26 GMT

I also need to know how to do this. I have CE 3.4c installed on a Windows 2008 R2 Server using the simple install which defaults to using 127.0.0.1. I tried replacing 127.0.0.1 with my tested domain name url in the following line in alfresco-global.properties:
web.application.context.url=http://127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco

But the only thing this did was to change 127.0.0.1:8080 in the invite URL to localhost:8080

Any ideas or suggestions?
Kevin

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

dorego — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:22:35 GMT

I have this problem a well

did you fin a solution?

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

yowsing — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:51:31 GMT

after spending a few hours understanding alfresco, finally i found how to solved the above issue.
just go to your "alfresco installed folder"\virtual-tomcat\conf\alfresco-virtserver.properties

edit a line:

alfresco.virtualserver.domain=127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net

and replace the 127-0-0-1 to the ip you need.

Happy R & D my Friend.

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

mrogers — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:33:33 GMT

I don't think that is correct. There's is or should not be any connection between the virt server and share.

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

msyepez — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:06:53 GMT

Hello, I'm having the same problem in Community Share 3.4d. I haven't been able to change the default hostname (127.0.0.1) on site invite emails. Plus, the anchor link only "grabs" http://127.0.0.1:8080 and ignores the rest of the link, putting it as plain text. ¿Any ideas? ops:

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

msyepez — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:18:37 GMT

Well, I found *part* of the answer. Don't log into Alfresco Share with a http://127.0.0.1:8080 URL on browser, instead use http://servername:8080 or http://192.168.1.1:8080 (for example, it's the local IP) and the email template will change accordingly. However, I still have the incomplete link problem…

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

saunan — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:11:50 GMT

The documentation below tells us WHAT to do, but not HOW to do it. What config file needs to be edited, or what admin page contains the form for defining and creating the publicly addressable URL?

http://docs.alfresco.com/3.5/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.team.doc%2Ftasks%2Fat-install-linux.html

This URL is relevant only when you are working on the machine on which Alfresco Team is installed. However, other users will not be able to access this URL from their machines. To give other users access to the machine where Alfresco Team is installed, you need to define and create a publicly addressable name.

   1. Disconnect from the URL http://127.0.0.1:8080/share.
   2. Define a name for the server and create the publicly addressable name. This is a name that you will need to publicize to the Alfresco Team members.
    3. Test the publicly addressable URL from a different machine. Use the addressable name, replacing the 127.0.0.1 in the URL, for example, http://<your-server-name>:8080/share.

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

scouil — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:37:26 GMT

Another solution (not the cleanest but…) would be to hardcode your server url in the invitation email.

Browse to Company home > data dictionnary > email models > invitation email model and edit invite_user_email.ftl
Replace ${url.serverPath} by your hardcoded server name

About the incomplete url problem, I have no idea where it comes from. Have a deeper look at the invitation email template and you may find the answer.

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

alexandra — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:08:38 GMT

Another similar issue…

We are running Alfresco over SSL on port 443. How do you change the url-variable so the outgoing email says "https" instead of "http"?

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

x1m — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:57:16 GMT

To fix this you have to edit the alfresco-global.properties file

In this case we use SSL encryption using the standard port 443 for HTTPS. This also fix the problem showing the images in the e-mail.

Locate and edit the following configuration file:
../tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

Change:
share.context=share
share.host=127.0.0.1
share.port=8080
share.protocol=http

To:
share.context=share
share.host=www.myalfresco.com
share.port=443
share.protocol=https

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

devodl — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:12:34 GMT

I was stymied by the same and/or related problem: URL embedded in email notifications (not invitation)
The line in the email template that generates the link in email notifications looks like this:

${url.serverPath}/share/page/site/${site}/document-details?nodeRef=${document.nodeRef}‍

Environment
Alfresco community 4.0.c
Share webapp server is separate (Tomcat and Host) from the Alfresco repository server
As one posting states the email is generated by the repository server, not the Share webapp so my focus was on the Alfresco repository server. Changing the following {repositoryServer}/tomcat/share/classes/alfresco-global.properties

alfresco.context=alfresco
alfresco.host=mycompany.com
alfresco.port=80
alfresco.protocol=http

share.context=share
share.host=mycompany.com
share.port=80
share.protocol=http
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Had no effect whatsoever on ${url.serverPath}

Solution
Adding the a new property to {repositoryServer}/tomcat/share/classes/alfresco-global.properties
# Repository endpoint - used by Activity Service - apparently deprecated but still used
repo.remote.url=http://mycompany.com
# Example settings from deprecated "repository.properties"
#repo.remote.url=http://mycompany.com:8080/alfresco
#repo.remote.endpoint=/service
and then restarting the repository server was the solution.
This property is documented here: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-10713

Note: The repo.remote.url I specified has no context (/share) because the context is specified in the email template.
I am not sure if this breaks anything else but it solved my problem.

I hope someone finds this posting useful.

Steve

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

digihorse — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:22:41 GMT

Steve,
Yup. That was the final piece. However, it required all of the entries in the alfresco-global.properties, not just he remote URL one. Would be nice if this were documented somewhere sane.

Re: Change the hostname in url in invitation email

fred-xte — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:39:27 GMT

The documentation below tells us WHAT to do, but not HOW to do it. What config file needs to be edited, or what admin page contains the form for defining and creating the publicly addressable URL?

http://docs.alfresco.com/3.5/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.team.doc%2Ftasks%2Fat-install-linux.html

This URL is relevant only when you are working on the machine on which Alfresco Team is installed. However, other users will not be able to access this URL from their machines. To give other users access to the machine where Alfresco Team is installed, you need to define and create a publicly addressable name.

   1. Disconnect from the URL http://127.0.0.1:8080/share.
   2. Define a name for the server and create the publicly addressable name. This is a name that you will need to publicize to the Alfresco Team members.
    3. Test the publicly addressable URL from a different machine. Use the addressable name, replacing the 127.0.0.1 in the URL, for example, http://<your-server-name>:8080/share.

saunan, you are right. The documentation do not clearly show HOW to do it.

Anybody have an idea ?
Thanks in advance.