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Alfresco WCM Remote AVM Deployment

wilsonb — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:18:11 GMT

I’m a bit of a newbie to Alfresco (sorry if I have posted this in the wrong place) and I’m trying to assess if it can do what I need it to. The question below may well be a dumb one so please be patient and give it a look. At the moment I have a Dev (Windows), Staging (Linux) and Live (Linux) server

Re: Alfresco WCM Remote AVM Deployment

mrogers — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:34:39 GMT

There seems to be a mismatch in your configuration.

In particular what is "bank.orange.co.uk"?

Also make sure that your destination has WCM boostrapped.

Re: Alfresco WCM Remote AVM Deployment

wilsonb — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:48:52 GMT

Apologies… I was attempting to mask my server name but obviously did a very poor job ops: … these are an example name only.

If by being bootstrapped you mean that the wcm-bootstrap-context.xml file is in the extension directory then I think it is:
/opt/alfresco-3.4.0/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/wcm-bootstrap-context.xml
otherwise I'm not sure what you mean?

Re: Alfresco WCM Remote AVM Deployment

zaizi — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:59:27 GMT

1. Make sure there are no firewalls between the two servers.

2. Make sure the hostname is configured correctly on the servers. Confirm the RMI service is bound to the correct network interface.

Ainga

Re: Alfresco WCM Remote AVM Deployment

wilsonb — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:14:19 GMT

I have done a telnet and a "netstat -an | grep 50500", the telnet connects and the netstat gives me:

tcp 0 0 :::50500 :::* LISTEN

Not too sure if this helps but I thought that would show there is no firewall and the port is open with something listening?

Re: Alfresco WCM Remote AVM Deployment

wilsonb — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:05:10 GMT

I have now sorted the problem with a simple config change. Sorry to waste peoples time but as I was new to it I did not know you have to put the host/IP address of the box that is receiving the content with its own value for the “alfresco.rmi.services.host” property.
i.e.
Box A = Deployer = a.b.c.d
Box B = Reciever = e.f.g.h
So on Box B edit the “alfresco-global.properties” file and add the following
alfresco.rmi.services.host= e.f.g.h

This appeared to sort it out.

Can I just ask the community why this property is not in the alfresco-global.properties file out of the box but it is in alfresco-shared.properties, I’m sure there is a good reason but its just puzzled me.

Out of the box it is by default set to localhost in the alfresco-shared.properties. All the documents I have read have not mentioned editing it…however I know I’m opening myself up to a multitude of responses that show me a page with it all in :wink:

Like I say sorry to waste anyone’s time with this.