topic Re: Alfresco v3.4b + OpenWorkDesk in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco v3.4b + OpenWorkDesk

unknown-user — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:45:57 GMT

Hello,i am Manuel Mueller from the WeWebU-Project-Team at HS-Coburg. This is the issue i told Mr. Pausch and Mr. Michel about.I set up the latest Alfresco v3.4b on a german Windows XP SP3 in VMWare Workstation 7.CPU: Intel Core2Duo 3GhzRAM: 1024MBI followed the steps in the Quick-Start-Guide -> "

Re: Alfresco v3.4b + OpenWorkDesk

deko — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:53:01 GMT

Hi Manuel,

we could reproduce this issue here at WeWebU too running against Alfresco 3.4b. But we could solve this issue by using the tomcat server coming with Alfresco only for Alfresco and using another standalone tomcat server ONLY for OpenWorkdesk.

The problem seems to be a library conflict when deploying Alfresco 3.4b and OpenWorkdesk on the same application server. We will adopt the QuickStartGuide according to this issue and update "Known Problems". Could you please give feedback, if this solution works on your side too.

Re: Alfresco v3.4b + OpenWorkDesk

unknown-user — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:58:26 GMT

I tried installing OWD with Alfresco on Ubuntu 10.10 last night at home.
I got it to work with no problems, but I did this in several steps:

Firstly I installed Apache Tomcat (in the /opt folder). This is the default .tar.gz file, which I unzipped and copied using sudo cp -s <src> <dest> into the /opt folder.

Then I unzipped the OpenWorkdesk .tar.gz file and copied the contents into a newly-created folder "ow" inside the Tomcat webapps folder.

Next I started Tomcat with its default configuration sudo ./startup.sh and waited for the server to initialize correctly.

Then I tested OWD inside FireFox with the following URL:

http://localhost:8080/ow ‍

and was taken directly to the OpenWorkdesk login screen.

I logged in with the username "admin" and password "admin" and was immediately connected to the Alfresco Cloud.

The next step was to install Alfresco locally, which I did by first downloading the Alfresco Community Edition, which is bundled as a Linux .bin file. I ran the installation and installed the deployment into the /opt directory also.

During installation, remember to configure the ports differently to the existing Apache Tomcat server that is hosting the OpenWorkdesk, so as not to cause any conflicts. This I did by simply incrementing all the port numbers and this seemed to do the trick, e.g. port 8080 became 8081. Please also remember your Alfresco username and password, which you will enter during the installation, because you'll need this to log into OWD later.

After starting the Alfresco server, I browsed to my newly configured URL, which in my case was

http://localhost:8081/alfresco ‍

and this opened the Alfresco dashboard. I was also able to login to Alfresco using the username and password that I had previously set.

The next step was to connect OWD to the local Alfresco deployment. This would mean stopping the OWD Tomcat server and modifying the owbootstrap.xml file, which was located in:
/opt/apache-tomcat-x.x.x./webapps/ow/WEB-INF/conf/cmis/owbootstrap.xml

I switched the configuration of the repository by commenting out the section WSDLRepository that pointed at the Alfresco Cloud and configured the following:

<WSDLRepository>http://localhost:8081/alfresco/cmis/RepositoryService?wsdl</WSDLRepository>
<WSDLNavigation>http://localhost:8081/alfresco/cmis/NavigationService?wsdl</WSDLNavigation>
<WSDLObject>http://localhost:8081/alfresco/cmis/ObjectService?wsdl</WSDLObject>
<WSDLMultifiling>http://localhost:8081/alfresco/cmis/MultiFilingService?wsdl</WSDLMultifiling>
<WSDLDiscovery>http://localhost:8081/alfresco/cmis/DiscoveryService?wsdl</WSDLDiscovery>
<WSDLVersioning>http://localhost:8081/alfresco/cmis/VersioningService?wsdl</WSDLVersioning>
<WSDLRelationship>http://localhost:8081/alfresco/cmis/RelationshipService?wsdl</WSDLRelationship>
<WSDLPolicy>http://localhost:8081/alfresco/cmis/PolicyService?wsdl</WSDLPolicy>
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Then I saved the file, restarted Tomcat and then opened OpenWorkdesk in FireFox once again.

http://localhost:8080/ow‍

This time I logged into OpenWorkdesk using the Alfresco username and password, which I had previously entered while installing Alfresco.

Then I could see the new repository layout - Voila!

Hope this helps.

Re: Alfresco v3.4b + OpenWorkDesk

unknown-user — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:36:20 GMT

Hi, well that helped. I was just confused because i had the intel that no second tomcat would be required.

I had to change the Tomcat-Settings of Tomcat v5.5 for the OWD-Install on Windows in the server.xml from "CrogrammeApache Software FoundationTomcat 5.5conf"


<Server port="8006" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
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    <Connector port="8081" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
               maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8444" acceptCount="100"
               connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" />
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    <Connector port="8010"
               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8444" protocol="AJP/1.3" />‍‍

That helped. I am testing the latest sprint which is Sprint 6a. In order to save some Performance i installed Alfresco with the minimal settings, meaning i deselected everything, also OpenOffice. I hope this will not result in problems.

I can not simply change the ports for the alfresco-install in their installer because the HR-Application would not let it install because your installer is configured that way that it uses the port 8080 and fails if alfresco is not there.

Now it would be nice if somebody would find time to convert the HR-Sample-Application installer batch-files (its two of em) into .sh-linux-shellscripts so one could use it on linux/unix as well. To save performance we think about using a centralized alfresco install and only use one tomcat and owd on the dev-machines.
edit: i just saw http://www.openworkdesk.org/phpbbforum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=35
okay so i am glad i did built another vm to test this ^^