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Sharepoint Protocol Issue

houldsworth1 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:40:34 GMT

Here's hoping someone can help me.I had Alfresco share running in an EC2 virtual machine without any problems, but I decided to move it to a local machine that I was not using.I installed Alfresco using the community installer with all options selected. I added the following to the alfresco-global.

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

mrogers — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:51:29 GMT

I think the sharepoint protocol expects to run on 7070. Its certainly not the same port as the rest of alfresco.

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

houldsworth1 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:52:08 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

You are correct - it does run on port 7070. Unfortunately that isn't the answer here as that is the port that I am already using (trying to create a doc on http:test.local:7070/alfresco/SPS/documentlibrary/test.docx).

Thanks for the input.

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

houldsworth1 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:01:42 GMT

I've tried a whole bunch of different options in the file /opt/alfresco-3.4.d/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties. So far nothing has worked. Is this the right file or is there something else I should be looking at?

It worked fine in my EC2 instance, which was not Ubuntu. Does anyone believe that Ubuntu is part of the issue?

Any suggestions gratefully received.

TIA

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

_sax — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:41:23 GMT

Maybe this provides you with a hint to the problem
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=36649

Does your server listen on port 7070 (to find out, use "netstat -an" at a commandline)?
And does your log say anything about failed connections?

# Sharepoint
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.module.vti=info

in log4j.properties lets Alfresco log everything for this functionality.

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

houldsworth1 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:40:48 GMT

Does your server listen on port 7070 (to find out, use "netstat -an" at a commandline)?
And does your log say anything about failed connections?

Sax - you could be onto something here. Netstat shows no mention of port 7070. Any idea how I would fix that?

If I were to upload a log file - which one would be best (sorry - I'm very new to Alfresco).

TIA

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

houldsworth1 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:57:57 GMT

So after some additional digging I came across some posts that seemed to indicate that I needed to download the run the vti-module.amp file and install it using the apply_amps.sh script (found in bin). I did that but didn't see any mention of the vti-module being loaded.
There was also a post that said I should copy the ROOT.war file into the webapps directory, delete the ROOT directory and restart the server ala instructions found here : http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Labs_3#Installing_Alfresco_components

Did that, restarted and…nothing. Port 7070 still not showing up on netstat.

How can I confirm that the vti-module.amp was loaded when I ran apply_amps? And if it wasn't, does that mean there is a bug in apply_amps or just that I am running it incorrectly (I am using sudo bin/apply_amps.sh).

TIA

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

houldsworth1 — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:31:48 GMT

OK - forget it. Not quite sure exactly what happened but somewhere in the bevy of install_amps, clear ROOT, reboot etc. port 7070 suddenly showed up in my netstat -an and…it started working.

Thanks for the help.

Onto the next issue now - no document preview…

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

_sax — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:48:47 GMT

Glad you got it working!
The installation of the amp should not be neccessary, since your Alfresco version already brings this module integrated. But since netstat didn't show this port it obviously was not active… :?
(Alfresco Labs 3 was another name for Version 3.0x, not to be confused with Alfresco Community Edition, the free version)

How does your document preview problem manifest itself? Is it an issue with Share (server:8080/share) or the normal client (server:8080/alfresco)? Does it occur only with certain document types?

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

houldsworth1 — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:44:37 GMT

How does your document preview problem manifest itself? Is it an issue with Share (server:8080/share) or the normal client (server:8080/alfresco)? Does it occur only with certain document types?

When on the document page a preview pane open and, for a while, I have spinning thing. After a while that is replaced with a grey blank page with something saying that document preview is not available.

I checked and Openoffice is listening on port 7070.

Since this was installed on an Ubuntu desktop (which comes with OpenOffice) I thought there might be two conflicting versions so I uninstalled the standard one. Then it didn't work at all, so I put it back and now I am back to the same blank screen.

Thanks

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

_sax — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:37:25 GMT

Does your log say anything about OpenOffice when you start Alfresco?
Normally, there would be a line like "OpenOffice connection could not be established" or "OO connection re-established".
If none of those appears, check this setting in your log4j.properties and up both to info:

# OpenOfficeConnection
log4j.logger.net.sf.jooreports.openoffice.connection=fatal
[…]
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester=info

Can you convert a doc file to pdf (via a content rule)? That would indicate a working OpenOffice, as a working full text index for your documents in Alfresco's search would, too.

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

ahalil — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:53:59 GMT

Hi houldsworth1!

I ran into this problem when i moved my Alfresco install and it turned out to be a problem with the pdf2swf prgoram. What version of Alfresco are you running? If its 3.4.c community eddition this may help you:

http://louise.hu/poet/?p=4873

I found this fix for the symbolic links to fix my issues with the preview. Hope this helps

Re: Sharepoint Protocol Issue

houldsworth1 — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:02:04 GMT

Thanks for all the advice. I'll check it out as soon as I can find some time.