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Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

goebel — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:16:33 GMT

HiWe have a testing alfresco server (4.0c) which is behind a firewall an we want to open it for external use. We did some apache rewrite rules and the web interface for alfresco and share is available from internet. So everything works correctly for alfresco and share.The server is available through

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

goebel — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:35:09 GMT

I also tried this whithout success 😞

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MOBILE-42

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

mikeh — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:48:21 GMT

I also tried this whithout success 😞

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MOBILE-42

The last comment in that JIRA issue is definitely the correct way to solve the problem. I say "definitely" because we had to solve the exact same issue for our soon-to-be-released cloud service.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

goebel — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:41:34 GMT

Thanks for your reply

Which version you tried 3.4 or 4.0 ? I use 4.0.c and there is no folder <tomcat>/shared/classes/META-INF
So I created the folder and file but it still does not work as expected

Georges

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

mikeh — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:34:07 GMT

That should work on both 3.4 and 4.0. Check your Tomcat configuration is set to look in the shared/classes area. Look at steps 3 and 4 here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

goebel — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:07:52 GMT

Hi

I use the alfresco 4.0c distribution where tomcat is bundled. Nevertheless, I tried your advise but still without any change

In alfresco 4, there is a folder "alfresco-4.0.c/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension" with a sample file "web-scripts-config-custom.xml.sample". I also changed this file with the modifications of the JIRA MOBILE-42. Still no change 😞

Regards

Georges Goebel

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

goebel — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:36:39 GMT

In the file ./tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-client-config.xml there is a section


<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Server">
      <!– The public web server hosting this web client –>
      <server>
         <!– Enable and adjust the following settings to allow for proxied use of Alfresco 
         <scheme>http</scheme>
         <hostname>localhost</hostname>
         <port>8080</port>
         –>
      </server>
   </config>
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But changing the values to the external adress does not affect the behaviour of the iphone app. Ther is still the local url in the xml. (I try from an external client the adresse http://www/mycompany.com/alfresco/service/cmis)
The resulting xml contains the internal hostname. Is there somewhere else a property to change

Here you find a sniped of the xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<service xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2007/app" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:cmisra="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/restatom/200908/" xmlns:cmis="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/cmis/core/200908/" xmlns:alf="http://www.alfresco.org">
  <workspace>
    <atom:title>Main Repository</atom:title>

    <collection href="http://myalfresco:8080/alfresco/service/cmis/s/workspace:SpacesStore/i/c2ab46ac-c281-447b-9701-d80d6da92c47/children"> 
      <atom:title>root collection</atom:title> 
      <cmisra:collectionType>root</cmisra:collectionType>
    </collection> 
    <collection href="http://myalfresco:8080/alfresco/service/cmis/types"> 
      <atom:title>type collection</atom:title> 
      <cmisra:collectionType>types</cmisra:collectionType>
    </collection>
    <collection href="http://myalfresco:8080/alfresco/service/cmis/checkedout"> 
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Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

mikeh — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:08:06 GMT

Please try again with the correct path and filename that are specified in the JIRA ticket.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

goebel — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:12:49 GMT

Hi,

I did exactly what was written in the JIRA issue

1) I created the missing directory META-INF : alfresco-4.0.c/tomcat/shared/classes/META-INF
2) I created the file spring-webscripts-config-custom.xml in the folder alfresco-4.0.c/tomcat/shared/classes/META-INF
3) restarted alfresco
4) tried with iphone

Still the same issue

Next I added the folder alfresco-4.0.c/tomcat/shared/classes/META-INF to the catalina.properties in tomcat/conf and restarted. Same issue

Do I miss something ?

Georges

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

goebel — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:25:52 GMT

It is working !!!!

You have to add "shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes" to the tomcat/conf/catalina.properties (without META-INF) and the restart.

You have to create the folder and file as described in the JIRA

Thanks man, you saved my day. Now I will grab some beer to celebrate 🙂

Georges

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

xarope — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:05:27 GMT

Unfortunately I seem to have also bumped into the same problem.

I'm using nginx to provide reverse proxy, and access on both http and https works for web and android (using JM Pascal's ALF-ACC Mobile lite, and Zia's Freshdocs for testing). But on ipad (and other iphones), with Alfresco Mobile, and Zia's Freshdocs, this only works on the http interface, and fails on the https interface with the error messages:

"Alfresco Mobile did not connect to https://externalhostname:443/alfresco/service/cmis…

The URL is correct, since when I just swipe off https, I can connect again via http.

My steps are:

1. mkdir /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/META-INF

2. vi /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/META-INF/spring-webscripts-config-custom.xml

<alfresco-config>
      <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Server">
      <server>
         <scheme>https</scheme>
         <hostname>externalhostname.com</hostname>
         <port>443</port>
         <path>alfresco</path>
      </server>
   </config>
</alfresco-config> ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

3. check that /opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/catalina.properties has:

"shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes"‍

In fact, my installation already has

shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar‍

4. restart alfresco

On the ipad, I can use Safari to connect to the URL https://externalhostname:443/alfresco/service/cmis, and after a login, get the cmis output, which shows my URLs are of the correct form,e.g.

…
<collection href="https://externalhostname.com:443/alfresco/service/cmis/s/workspace:SpacesStore/i/05754434-33cb-410b-885e-4506d6fa621c/children">
…‍‍‍

Prior to doing the 4 steps above, the URLs were just "http://127.0.0.1:8080" so obviously this change is working.

Any thoughts as to why this isn't working? Bearing in mind that on the Android platform, all the apps I've tried so far appear to be working, so is this an issue specific to the iOS (Apple, no Cisco) platform?

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

xarope — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:46:50 GMT

anybody else encountered this same problem with access via apple products and SSL proxy? As I mentioned, it seems to work on the android devices and apps I've tried (as well as normal web access), just not on any ipad/iphone apps.

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

xarope — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:10:13 GMT

anybody? I'm desperate enough to do some packet capture and try to figure out what is going on (I can feel my eyes watering already!)

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

umamaheswari — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 05:24:50 GMT

Hey everyone,
I am also facing the same issue while accessing the URL from an iPad app but in a Multi-tenant environment with SSL enabled.
I was able to solve this issue when MT was not enabled.
But the same issue started occuring after enabling Multi-tenancy.
THis totally works fine in Android devices but not in iPad. The META-INF folder creation has no effect in MT and SSL enabled server. Could somebody pls help on this ????

Thanks !!!!!

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

umamaheswari — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 06:11:56 GMT

Hey hi !!!

I am facing the same issue.. Were you able to resolve that in any means?? can u pls help with this ??

Re: Change external alfresco url (/service/cmis) for iphone ap

joe_l3 — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:31:31 GMT

Hi all,

in my environment, the changes have effects only with the old (alfresco 3.x) CMIS AtomPub binding "alfresco/service/cmis":

https://your.dns.com/alfresco/service/cmis

If I configure my Android device with the new CMIS endpoind Urls, it doesn't work.
You can check the correct server hostname by opening the available CMIS Urls in your browser:

For Alfresco 3.x : https://your.dns.com/alfresco/service/cmis
For Alfresco 4.0.x and Alfresco 4.1.x : https://your.dns.com/alfresco/cmisatom
For Alfresco 4.2 and Alfresco 5.0: https://your.dns.com/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.0/atom

My App Stack
- HTTPS access through Apache Server 2.0 with http proxy/reverse
- Alfresco Community 4.2.e
- Android 5.1.1