topic RESOLVED: Read only web scripts in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resolved-read-only-web-scripts/m-p/242933#M196063 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have implemented a way to make Alfresco read-only during the time that we back it up, by using a Toggle (</SPAN><A href="http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=87" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=87</A><SPAN>).&nbsp; We have a single server, so i dont have the option of having a slave for backing up.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I can successfully make Alfresco read-only using the above toggling method by scheduling a java app to run, which runs the following code:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TransactionService myTransactionService = this.services.getTransactionService();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TransactionServiceImpl serviceAction = (TransactionServiceImpl)myTransactionService;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;boolean status = myTransactionService.isReadOnly();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if(aToggle &amp;&amp; !status)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;//toggle read only<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;serviceAction.setAllowWrite(false);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aMessage = "Alfresco in read-only status";<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;System.out.println("Toggling read-only");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>This all works well, however I am using Alfresco as a backend to a Joomla website. Joomla will access various webscripts in Alfresco when a user browses the pages, so the Alfresco webscripts have to be up 24/7. When i have the toggle to read-only, I can run webscripts if they dont contain a .js, however as soon as i run webscript with a .js, i get the following error: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE> &lt;status&gt;<BR />&nbsp; 500 <BR />&nbsp; &lt;name&gt;Internal Error&lt;/name&gt; <BR />&nbsp; &lt;description&gt;An error inside the HTTP server which prevented it from fulfilling the request.&lt;/description&gt; <BR />&nbsp; &lt;/status&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;message&gt;Wrapped Exception (with status template): Failed to execute script '/com/moxy/Metadata/metadata.get.js (in repository store workspace://SpacesStore/Company Home/Data Dictionary/Web Scripts Extensions)': Read-Write transaction started within read-only transaction&lt;/message&gt; <BR />&nbsp; &lt;exception&gt;org.alfresco.web.scripts.WebScriptException - Wrapped Exception (with status template): Failed to execute script '/com/moxy/Metadata/metadata.get.js (in repository store workspace://SpacesStore/Company Home/Data Dictionary/Web Scripts Extensions)': Read-Write transaction started within read-only transaction&lt;/exception&gt; <BR />&nbsp; &lt;callstack&gt;org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Read-Write transaction started within read-only transaction org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:292) org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:227) org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepoStore$RepoScriptContent$1.doWork(RepoStore.java:906) org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepoStore$RepoScriptContent$1.doWork(RepoStore.java:904) org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:437) org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepoStore$RepoScriptContent.getInputStream(RepoStore.java:902) org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryScriptProcessor$RepositoryScriptLocation.getInputStream(RepositoryScriptProcessor.java:163) org.alfresco.repo.jscript.RhinoScriptProcessor.execute(RhinoScriptProcessor.java:119) org.alfresco.repo.processor.ScriptServiceImpl.executeScript(ScriptServiceImpl.java:263) org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryScriptProcessor.executeScript(RepositoryScriptProcessor.java:108) org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractWebScript.executeScript(AbstractWebScript.java:800) org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeWebScript.execute(DeclarativeWebScript.java:90) org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer$2.execute(RepositoryContainer.java:319) org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:320) org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:227) org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecute(RepositoryContainer.java:368) org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.transactionedExecuteAs(RepositoryContainer.java:390) org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.RepositoryContainer.executeScript(RepositoryContainer.java:273) org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:261) org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntime.executeScript(AbstractRuntime.java:139) org.alfresco.web.scripts.servlet.WebScriptServlet.service(WebScriptServlet.java:116) <SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My web script has the following authentication:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE> &lt;authentication&gt;guest&lt;/authentication&gt;<BR />&lt;transaction&gt;none&lt;/transaction&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>The Web scripts are not writing to Alfresco or the database - they are actually read-only. Is there a way to overwrite the safety check which causes the error above?&nbsp; Thanks in advance for your help!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Tara</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:05:54 GMT tara_b 2009-10-06T03:05:54Z RESOLVED: Read only web scripts https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resolved-read-only-web-scripts/m-p/242933#M196063 Hello,I have implemented a way to make Alfresco read-only during the time that we back it up, by using a Toggle (http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=87).&nbsp; We have a single server, so i dont have the option of having a slave for backing up.I can successfully make Alfresco read-only using the Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:05:54 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resolved-read-only-web-scripts/m-p/242933#M196063 tara_b 2009-10-06T03:05:54Z Re: RESOLVED: Read only web scripts https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resolved-read-only-web-scripts/m-p/242934#M196064 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Can you move your web script out of the repository and in the class path on the file system and try that? See </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts#Deciding_Where_to_Place_Web_Script_Implementation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts#Deciding_Where_to_Place_Web_Script_Implementation</A><SPAN> for details.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:35:16 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resolved-read-only-web-scripts/m-p/242934#M196064 zaizi 2009-10-06T08:35:16Z Re: RESOLVED: Read only web scripts https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resolved-read-only-web-scripts/m-p/242935#M196065 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks for your reply, i will try that.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:55:22 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resolved-read-only-web-scripts/m-p/242935#M196065 tara_b 2009-10-14T12:55:22Z Re: RESOLVED: Read only web scripts https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resolved-read-only-web-scripts/m-p/242936#M196066 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thank you so much! When I use the classpath method, it works perfectly.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:24:23 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resolved-read-only-web-scripts/m-p/242936#M196066 tara_b 2009-10-14T23:24:23Z