topic Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2 in Alfresco Archive

getting override chaining files working in 3.2

jriker1 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:01:38 GMT

As some of you may have seen from my other posts, I basically have 3.2 working with the latest nightly build using Alfresco authentication. I also have successfully got LDAP authentication working, but not the right way. This is the last part of the puzzle and I can't figure it out. Read the late

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

jriker1 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:56:35 GMT

Figured this one sat long enough unanswered. Should I assume no answer means the new subsystem is not working right when you want to extend it and that I'm doing everything right it just don't work?

JR

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

carbs — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:00:37 GMT

I'm having the same problem, it just never seems to work.

I followed the guide and the wiki (which is the same), I don't know if I'm missing something (I probably am) but I can't figure it out.

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

mikef — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:45:35 GMT

It looks like you've been trying this with a nightly/svn 3.2 build. Firstly, I'd recommend you move to the official 3.2 Community release http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Community_Edition_file_list

The authentication and chaining has be re-factored into subsystems for 3.2. I suggest you take a look at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Authentication_Subsystems which provides details on how to configure using the new alfresco-global.properties file introduced with 3.2. This allows you to configure and chain your authentication subsystems using a single property file.

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

carbs — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:31:14 GMT

I'm pretty sure I have the release version of 3.2, I get the following at start-up.


Alfresco started (Community): Current version 3.2.0 (2039) schema 2019 - Installed version 3.2.0 (2039) schema 2019
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I have done a clean install, but it doesn't matter as by adding all the custom options I want into alfresco-global.properties and that seems to work fine.

Now I just have to sort out the LDAP sync, which was working in 3.0 but now doesn't with the same options (moved into alfresco-global.properties), but that is for another post

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

carbs — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:09:52 GMT

Actually this is now a problem for me I need to customise the fileServer subsystem and it just doesn't work.

I used the linux tomcat bundle of 3.2 with a fresh install from scratch, any customisations I make, for example in tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/fileServers/default/default/custom-file-servers-context.xml (as per the example in the manual/wiki) just get ignored and the defaults from the war file are used. I just want to add some extra cifs "shares" to particular spaces.

Is the bug refered to above in the version I am using (see above also) or am I just doing it wrong?

Thanks,
Mark

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

gronfelt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:26:17 GMT

I have the same issue. The alfresco.log file tells me this:

18:53:18,757 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Starting 'Authentication' subsystem, ID: [managed, ldap1]
18:53:18,763 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties]
18:53:18,764 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'Authentication' subsystem, ID: [managed, ldap1] complete
18:53:18,764 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Starting 'Authentication' subsystem, ID: [managed, ldap2]
18:53:18,769 INFO  [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties]
18:53:18,770 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'Authentication' subsystem, ID: [managed, ldap2] complete
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But no authentication seems to work.

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

lueders — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:49:09 GMT

Hi all,

indeed the override doesn't seem to work…

if you rename the /tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap-authentication.properties
and customize your own /tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap-authentication.properties
ldap auth works great.

doing the same with the properties files in /data/Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/passthru
will get CIFS working.

Since I got a Zimbra openldap server, my next goal is to get sync working again. In Alfresco Labs 3.1, I added all extra Zimbra attributes (postal address, company, etc) to the xml & properties files and got them sync'd too!

hmmm… I wonder whether there is an alfresco-shared.properties file for sync control …

regards
Ralf

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

gronfelt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:26:28 GMT

The suggestion above will unfortunately not help me, since I need to chain several ldap configurations authenticating against different domains.

Apparantly either this functionality or the documentation is broken. I've filed an issue report in the JIRA and I hope that someone from Alfresco will be able to confirm whether this is a bug or not.

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

lueders — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:14:08 GMT

ok.. you want a chain like ldap1:ldap,ldap2:ldap,ldap3:ldap

I didn't try that.
Do you have a hint for me how to enable auth/sync debugging in log4j.properties?

Thanks
Ralf

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

dward — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:24:13 GMT

Apologies to all on this thread. I caught on a little late.

The feature should work exactly as jriker describes in his first post to this thread.

However, it seems to have been broken after the Labs preview release.

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-2478

I've just checked in a fix to HEAD (revision 15160) along with a unit test to ensure this always shows up in the future. This should show up in the next nighly build, plus of course all future Alfresco releases.

So now all the examples listed in

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Subsystems#Extension_classpath

should be valid.

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

jriker1 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:10:09 GMT

Thanks DWard. So does that mean that the 3.2 community edition release version does not work correctly and we need to compile the latest HEAD version?

Thanks.

JR

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

jpv — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:01:47 GMT

I'm stuck on the same problem, do you know if the nightly build linked to below will work or where is the latest build that will, even if it is a previous release? I see the nightly build's change date is: 14 Jul 2009.
http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/Alfresco-Community-3.2-Full-Setup.exe

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

dward — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:33:59 GMT

The 14th July nightly build should contain the fix.

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

golden_eye — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:06:51 GMT

Hello
i have also problem configure ldap for version 3.2.
Is there enough to copy only alfresco.war file and restart server or i need to install new fresh alfresco.
Thanks for answer.

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

dward — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:01:27 GMT

Yes, the new alfresco.war should be sufficient.

Re: getting override chaining files working in 3.2

michele_orru — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:46:09 GMT

I've just tested the config file override on a nightly build (29 sept), in Mac OS X, and it seems is not working.

Basically I need to change the default admin password in every file that still reference the default one.
For Studio, there is tomcat/webapps/studio/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-extension/web-framework-config-custom.xml.

So I just rename shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/web-framework-config-custom.xml.sample in web-framework-config-custom.xml, overriding the config part that contains the default password. Finally the XML file in shared looks like:

<alfresco-config>
<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Remote">
      <remote>
         <!– The default endpoint –>
         <default-endpoint-id>alfresco-webuser</default-endpoint-id>
         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco-webuser</id>
            <name>Alfresco - Web Project user</name>
            <connector-id>alfresco</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <identity>declared</identity>
            <username>admin</username>
            <password>admin999</password>
            <unsecure>false</unsecure>
         </endpoint>      
      </remote>
   </config>
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Rebooting alfresco, I still have Login Failed exceptions from Studio.
The only way to get it working is actually renaming the XML file of WEB-INF to something like .old, and copying all his contents inside the XML file in shared. Rebooting Alfresco, this actually works.

If changing log level from info to debug in ./tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties, I cannot see the file in question loaded (for instance I can see another file such as webscript-framework-config-custom.xml, modified as well).

Am I missing something?

Thank you for the help

Michele Orru'