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Change Alfresco port and share stops working.

jpearson — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:10:18 GMT

I need to run jboss and tomcat on the same machine, long story but its just for dev purposes. So I decided to switch the port that tomcat (alfresco and share) runs on from 8080 to 8180. I edited TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml to reflect this. Restarted tomcat and localhost:8180/alfresco worked just fin

Re: Change Alfresco port and share stops working.

mrogers — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:29:43 GMT

Can't see any obvious problems.

Are any of your configurations in the shared folder working. In particular have you added the shared folder to the tomcat classloader?

Re: Change Alfresco port and share stops working.

jpearson — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:03:12 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I am pretty sure that $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties is being read because if its using my postgres db settings. I verified this by changing the db user and alfresco had the expected exception.

Re: Change Alfresco port and share stops working.

fviry — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:15:59 GMT

Hello,

I met the same problem and same error messages with alfresco 4.0.b. The installation of alfresco was done manually. I wanted to modify the port number to 8083. I modified the file <TOMCAT_HOME>/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

I modified these lines in this file :

alfresco.context=alfresco
alfresco.host=127.0.0.1
alfresco.port=8083
alfresco.protocol=http
#
share.context=share
share.host=127.0.0.1
share.port=8083
share.protocol=http

Then, I created the file <TOMCAT_HOME>/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml. This file was not present.

I had to copy this file from another alfresco server. I had to install a second alfresco application on second server ( with the installation file alfresco-community-4.0.b-installer-linux-x64.bin) in order to generate the file share-config-custom.xml and to copy it.

Then, I modified the port number to 8083.

file share-config-custom.xml

<alfresco-config>

   <!– Repository Library config section –>
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="RepositoryLibrary" replace="true">
      <!–
         Whether the link to the Repository Library appears in the header component or not.
      –>
      <visible>true</visible>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Remote">
      <remote>
         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco-noauth</id>
            <name>Alfresco - unauthenticated access</name>
            <description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that do not require authentication</description>
            <connector-id>alfresco</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8083/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <identity>none</identity>
         </endpoint>

         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco</id>
            <name>Alfresco - user access</name>
            <description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that require user authentication</description>
            <connector-id>alfresco</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8083/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <identity>user</identity>
         </endpoint>

         <endpoint>
            <id>alfresco-feed</id>
            <name>Alfresco Feed</name>
            <description>Alfresco Feed - supports basic HTTP authentication via the EndPointProxyServlet</description>
            <connector-id>http</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8083/alfresco/s</endpoint-url>
            <basic-auth>true</basic-auth>
            <identity>user</identity>
         </endpoint>

<!–         <endpoint>
            <id>activiti-admin</id>
            <name>Activiti Admin UI - user access</name>
            <description>Access to Activiti Admin UI, that requires user authentication</description>
            <connector-id>activiti-admin-connector</connector-id>
            <endpoint-url>http://localhost:8080/alfresco/activiti-admin</endpoint-url>
            <identity>user</identity>
         </endpoint> –>
      </remote>
   </config>

</alfresco-config>

Then, I copied the directory licenses (from the second alfresco server) to <TOMCAT_HOME>.

I restarted process and it was OK. I was able to connect to explorer and share on port number 8083.

Re: Change Alfresco port and share stops working.

jevon — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:30:38 GMT

As posted at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Changing_Default_Port_Configuration, if you have used a port other than 8080, it is critical that you set the port settings in classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml.

The supplied share-config-custom.xml.sample has this configuration provided, but the entire block is commented out!

In my case, my logs were displaying "Unable to retrieve License information from Alfresco: 400".

Re: Change Alfresco port and share stops working.

jungie — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:29:36 GMT

Is it possible to change the port when logging in as admin? separate port number of admin account to regular user only?

Thanks.