topic Automatic (kickstart) install script in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/automatic-kickstart-install-script/m-p/254439#M207569 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have tried now in between 100 or 200 times to install Alfresco on a virtual CentOS server. So far without a good result. Puzzling for me is the installer is working fine on the CentOS 6 platform: download the .bin file execute it and done! However, call me old fashioned, i want to deploy Alfresco on Tomcat myself using the .zip install.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have read all the CentOS documents in the wiki and all are not very useful and quite old actually. I suggest they should be removed because they are a waste of time and frustrating for new users. I mean, nobody uses CentOS 4 anymore or Tomcat 5. On the internet outside the wiki there are some blogs with more up to date information, but they are the typical blog-style install documents: a sum up of things you need to install and the blogger probably passes on work from somebody else. I can conclude that by far the best work i found on the web on installing a headless and gui-less Alfresco is located here: </SPAN><A href="http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-ubuntu-qs/source/browse/trunk/install.sh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-ubuntu-qs/source/browse/trunk/install.sh</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Yes, a script. At least there is one person, Will Abson, who seems to really know what it takes to install Alfesco. It is really great work he did, the script looks exceptional. For me unfortunately it has two challenges. First it is for Ubuntu (who still wants to use Ubuntu in 2011?) and second it requires user interaction. So i started to use Will's script as inspiration for my own script that installs Alfresco without user interaction in a so-called kickstart file (see below). This file will create a new virtual server, installs the necessary packages, downloads Alfresco, edits the configuration files, creates the MySQL database and finally reboots. Alfresco is then available at port 8080.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>On a side note, my feeling is, maybe Alfresco is a bit picky about versions of software you use. Connector/J: 5.1.18, Tomcat 7.0.22 and 6.0.33 (share the same problems) and Oracle's MySQL 5.1.47 and JDK6. Are there issues know on these versions if any?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the script (i remove the openoffice and swf parts and if yo want to run it you must provide your own source server, mine is behind the firewall). Can anyone see what is wrong with it? Apart from copying a bunch of .sample files it seems pretty identical to me compared to what the .bin installer does or what Will's script does.</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />install<BR />reboot<BR />lang en_US.UTF-8<BR />keyboard us<BR />skipx<BR />%include /tmp/network-with-hostname.sh<BR />rootpw linux<BR />firewall –disabled<BR />selinux –disabled<BR />authconfig –enableshadow –enablemd5<BR />timezone –isUtc Asia/Shanghai<BR />bootloader –location=mbr<BR />services –enabled=mysqld<BR />bootloader –location=mbr<BR />clearpart –all –initlabel<BR />part swap –size=500 –ondisk=vda<BR />part / –fstype ext4 –grow –size=100 –ondisk=vda<BR /><BR />%packages –excludedocs –instLangs=en<BR />@core<BR />-mdadm<BR />curl<BR />wget<BR />gcc<BR />make<BR />openoffice.org-headless<BR /><BR />ImageMagick<BR /><BR />mysql-server<BR />mysql<BR /><BR />#swftools dependencies<BR />gcc-c++<BR />zlib-devel<BR />libjpeg-devel<BR />giflib-devel<BR />freetype-devel<BR />%end<BR /><BR />%pre<BR />#!/bin/sh<BR />wget -O - <A href="http://office:90/flexshare/os/common/remove-firmware.sh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://office:90/flexshare/os/common/remove-firmware.sh</A> | bash<BR />wget -O - <A href="http://office:90/flexshare/os/common/set-hostname.sh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://office:90/flexshare/os/common/set-hostname.sh</A> | bash<BR />%end<BR /><BR />%post –log=/root/post.log<BR />#!/bin/sh<BR />export ALFRESCO=alfresco-community-4.0.a<BR />service network restart<BR />chkconfig crond off<BR />chkconfig atd off<BR /><BR />wget -O - <A href="http://office:90/flexshare/os/components/java/install.sh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://office:90/flexshare/os/components/java/install.sh</A> | bash<BR />wget -O - <A href="http://office:90/flexshare/os/components/tomcat/install.sh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://office:90/flexshare/os/components/tomcat/install.sh</A> | bash<BR />. /etc/profile.d/tomcat.sh<BR />echo "JAVA_OPTS=\"-Xms128m -Xmx1024m -Xss96k -XX:MaxPermSize=160m -Dalfresco.home=$CATALINA_HOME -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote\"" &gt;&gt; /etc/profile.d/tomcat.sh<BR />echo "TOMCAT6_SECURITY=no" &gt;&gt; /etc/profile.d/tomcat.sh<BR /><BR />echo "setup mysql"<BR />sed -i 's/\[mysqld\]/&amp;\<BR />default-storage-engine=InnoDB/' /etc/my.cnf<BR />sed -i 's/\[mysqld\]/&amp;\<BR />default-character-set=utf8/' /etc/my.cnf<BR />service mysqld restart<BR />mysql -uroot -e "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS alfresco;"<BR />mysql -uroot -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON alfresco.* TO alfresco@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'alfresco';"<BR />#TODO weird: but this seems necessary<BR />mysqladmin -uroot password alfresco<BR /><BR />echo "downloading alfresco"<BR />mkdir /root/alfresco-down<BR />cd /root/alfresco-down<BR />wget -q <A href="http://office:90/flexshare/os/alfresco/$ALFRESCO.zip" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://office:90/flexshare/os/alfresco/$ALFRESCO.zip</A><BR />unzip -q $ALFRESCO.zip<BR /><BR />echo "copying and unpacking the wars"<BR />cp /root/alfresco-down/web-server/webapps/*.war $CATALINA_HOME/webapps<BR />cd $CATALINA_HOME/webapps<BR />unzip -q share.war -d share<BR />unzip -q alfresco.war -d alfresco<BR />#TODO i don't think we need the war archives anymore, so delete them<BR />#rm -f *.war<BR /><BR />echo "copying alfresco files to $CATALINA_HOME"<BR />cp /root/alfresco-down/bin/* $CATALINA_HOME/bin<BR />rm -rf /root/alfresco-down<BR /><BR />echo "config alfresco web apps"<BR />mkdir -p $CATALINA_HOME/shared/classes<BR />cd $CATALINA_HOME/shared/classes<BR />wget -q <A href="http://office:90/flexshare/os/alfresco/alfresco-global.properties" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://office:90/flexshare/os/alfresco/alfresco-global.properties</A><BR />cd $CATALINA_HOME/lib<BR />wget -q <A href="http://office:90/flexshare/os/alfresco/mysql-connector-java-5.1.18-bin.jar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://office:90/flexshare/os/alfresco/mysql-connector-java-5.1.18-bin.jar</A><BR />sed -i 's/shared.loader=/shared.loader=${catalina.home}\/shared\/classes/g' $CATALINA_HOME/conf/catalina.properties<BR /><BR />chown -R tomcat.tomcat $CATALINA_HOME<BR /><BR />mkdir -p /var/alfresco/alf_data<BR />chown -R tomcat.tomcat /var/alfresco<BR /><BR />#default logging traps into a permission problem, set the path<BR />sed -i 's/<A href="http://alfresco.log/${catalina.home}\/logs\/alfresco-share.log/g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">alfresco.log/${catalina.home}\/logs\/alfresco-share.log/g</A>' $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties<BR />sed -i 's/<A href="http://alfresco.log/${catalina.home}\/logs\/alfresco-alfresco.log/g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">alfresco.log/${catalina.home}\/logs\/alfresco-alfresco.log/g</A>' $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties<BR />%end<BR /><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>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><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>I think the mayor problem is memory related. There are loads of these messages:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />15:47:27,046 WARN&nbsp; [org.alfresco.util.AbstractTriggerBean] Job ehCacheTracerJob is not active/enabled<BR />15:47:36,402 ERROR [org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory] Destroy method on bean with name 'replicationParams' threw an exception<BR />java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>When both share and alfresco are deployed it can happen Tomcat will crash on startup. However this forum tells me to ignore them and i have tried several JAVA_OPTS but it did not resolve. The other often recurring issue are the database connections.</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />16:06:25,327&nbsp; WARN&nbsp; [hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory] Could not obtain connection metadata<BR />org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Communications link failure<BR /><BR />The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1225)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:880)<BR /><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 /><SPAN>No idea what that means, the alfresco DB should be accessible. And sometimes it manages create the tables in the DB, but mostly it fails.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:33:46 GMT sakkaje 2011-10-20T08:33:46Z Automatic (kickstart) install script https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/automatic-kickstart-install-script/m-p/254439#M207569 Hi,I have tried now in between 100 or 200 times to install Alfresco on a virtual CentOS server. So far without a good result. Puzzling for me is the installer is working fine on the CentOS 6 platform: download the .bin file execute it and done! However, call me old fashioned, i want to deploy Alfres Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:33:46 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/automatic-kickstart-install-script/m-p/254439#M207569 sakkaje 2011-10-20T08:33:46Z Re: Automatic (kickstart) install script https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/automatic-kickstart-install-script/m-p/254440#M207570 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>H there,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you haven't done so already, try running the Alfresco Environmental Validation Tool that can be found on Google Code at </SPAN><A href="http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-environment-validation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-environment-validation/</A><SPAN>.&nbsp; It might alert you to problems with your configuration or environment.&nbsp; And if you have an Alfresco subscription, check out the Zero Day Configuration Guide at </SPAN><A href="http://support.alfresco.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=15026" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://support.alfresco.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=15026</A><SPAN>.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope it helps,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Darryl</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:30:23 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/automatic-kickstart-install-script/m-p/254440#M207570 darryl_staflund 2011-10-30T17:30:23Z Re: Automatic (kickstart) install script https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/automatic-kickstart-install-script/m-p/254441#M207571 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You need to increase the permgen memory (-XX:MaxPermSize=200M).&nbsp;&nbsp; I can't see that in your script.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>And a second point, as and when you find the wiki is incomplete or out of date then please go ahead and correct it, that way it gets better <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:47:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/automatic-kickstart-install-script/m-p/254441#M207571 mrogers 2011-10-30T18:47:40Z