topic Help finding paths in Alfresco Archive

Help finding paths

lordzoster — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:17:18 GMT

HalloI'm developing custom content models in Alfresco Community 4.2e on Ubuntu 12.04 / Tomcat (Bitnami stack).I'm following http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-content/content-article-2ed.pdf (based upon a 4.0c) and http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Data_Dictionary_Guide#Step_by_Step_Model_

Re: Help finding paths

kaynezhang — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:26:59 GMT

If you're using Tomcat,, the shared/classes directory is not enabled out of the box.

In Tomcat6/7, you need to add the following line to your conf/catalina.properties file (or modify it if it is already defined)


shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar 
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if there is no folder named shared under $TOMCAT_HOME then created ,and incursive create $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes,$TOMCAT_HOME/shared/lib,$TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/extension

Re: Help finding paths

lordzoster — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:17:11 GMT

Hi thank you for the reply.
Tomcat is properly configured.
The problem I'm facing is that the folders referenced in the tutorials and the wikis aren't there where tutorials point to.

Re: Help finding paths

kaynezhang — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:24:18 GMT

If the folders didn't exist ,you can create them manually.

Re: Help finding paths

lordzoster — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:21:03 GMT

Thank you Kayne, actually I did so.
Why do those paths differ?

Re: Help finding paths

marco_altieri — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:42:51 GMT

Hi,

the solution suggested by kaynezhang is correct.
As he pointed out, Tomcat by default does not use the extension folder, and you need to add it as described in the following page:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6

I'm not saying that tomcat is not configured correctly: the default configuration is correct, but it doesn't have the shared/classes and shared/lib folders.

It is not always wrong to add folders into webapps/alfresco directly, but the shared folder is sometimes the best choice.

Re: Help finding paths

kaynezhang — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 06:33:47 GMT

For extensible purpose alfreso use two sets of configuration files, the out-of-box ones and our own extension configuration files which replace or override the default ones.
Our own extension configuration files will place under extension classpath, by placing our files under extension classpath we can override default configurations without modifying them.

Re: Help finding paths

lordzoster — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 06:53:35 GMT

Thank you guys for the support.
I wish you a good time with your families for Christmas.
Cheers