topic Re: Multiple QS instances in Alfresco Archive

Multiple QS instances

techyguy — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:03:39 GMT

Hello Alfrescians,I have started working with QuickStart (QS) and reading through some of the guides I've stump-led upon.I am attempting to deploy multiple instances of sites that leverage QS. I am finding that using Share to deploy multiple different sites and than the QS dashlet is unsuccessful.

Re: Multiple QS instances

techyguy — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:08:22 GMT

I have copied the wcmqs.WAR and renamed it. This has been deployed - But how would I map this to the content like the wcmqs does automatically?

Re: Multiple QS instances

drozes — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:48:52 GMT

I think the question you might be thinking of is how to map a WMCQS instances to a specific web app folder?

If you have multiple instances of a WMCQS - you can use .WAR to add new webapps to your alfresco.

example

Step 1:
Copied the wcmqs.war and renamed it mySite.war. Tomcat would automatically unpack the WAR and create the folder mySite in your tomcat/webapps. This will act as your site web folder.

Step 2:
Create a new site. Add the quick start dashlet and import data. (This will create a web quickstart site automatically pointing to your tombat/webapps/wmcqs folder.

Step 3:
Navigate to you documents library/Alfresco Quick Start/ Both subfolders in here are of the type ws:website, you can edit their properties 'Web App Context" to the string "mySite". This site will now use the web folder tomcat/webapps/mySite.

This makes each of your quick start use a different web folder - unsure if this solves your issues?

Jeff probably has a better way of accomplishing this.

Re: Multiple QS instances

techyguy — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:51:15 GMT

Those steps did work and did result in what I described.

I am hoping that I can have 1 WAR that manages multiple Sites based on some type of url context.

For instance have 3 sites all pointing to the wcmqs.WAR and based on the app context (wqmqs/site1), different repo data will be used.

Also hoping to load assets based on the app context.
For instance.
Site1 Document Dictionary will have an '/image' inside it's webroot - making all these images available through /url/images.

A solid CMS system would have this stuff built in (As it seems Share already does this). I know that the QuickStart is a new extension to Alfresco - so looking forward to this type of functionality.

Anyone?