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Can Alfresco 3.4 deploy to 3.0-era File System Receivers?

tvaughan77 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:30:43 GMT

I have 2 Alfresco servers: a "prod" and a "dev".Both servers started off as 3.0-labs installations and were deploying happily across my network to a variety of file system receivers set up on a variety of servers.I upgraded my "dev" alfresco server to 3.4.b and I cannot get any deployments from a we

Re: Can Alfresco 3.4 deploy to 3.0-era File System Receivers?

tvaughan77 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:39:32 GMT

Maybe sort of answering my own question with a RTFM, but…

This picture from the 3.4.b docs:[img]http://www.alfresco.com/help/34/community/adminhelp/images/Deployment_Subsystem.GIF[/img]

Makes me think I'm trying to do the path on the right with the port reserved for the path on the left? I….guess I'm going to try to install a new-era FSR and see if I can connect my 3.4.b web project to it.

Re: Can Alfresco 3.4 deploy to 3.0-era File System Receivers?

mrogers — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:25:39 GMT

While it is occasionally possible to deploy "across versions", it is never a supported or recommended approach. The upgrade advice is that all the versions need to match.

And in particular 3.0 and 3.4 are incompatible.

Re: Can Alfresco 3.4 deploy to 3.0-era File System Receivers?

tvaughan77 — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:02:30 GMT

Confirmed that an Alfresco 3.4.b installation with the WCM module cannot deploy to a 3.0-vintage FSR running on a remote server but can deploy to the 3.4-vintage FSR running on that same remote server.

I was able to setup 2 separate FSRs running on the same target server:
# instance 1 running the 3.0 era FSR bound to RMI port 44100 still being deployed to by my production 3.0-labs Alfresco WCM server
# instance 2 running the 3.4 era FSR bound to RMI port 50500 that I setup as a test to be deployed to by my dev 3.4.b Alfresco WCM server.

With the magic of symlinks, I'll be able to flip from the old 3.0-era FSR to the new 3.4-era FSR when I get to the point of upgrading the production server (the /etc/init.d script I wrote should be able to start either instance).

BTW, Alfresco guys – really good job improving the installation, layout and configuration of the FSR. The 3.0 zip felt a bit like a hack, but the 3.4 installation is much, much nicer.