topic Re: Synology in Alfresco Archive

Synology

johan1974 — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:12:04 GMT

Hi Guys,Is it possible to install alfresco on a Synology NAS in my case DS413?If so, Are there any instructions available?Thanks!

Re: Synology

afaust — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:11:14 GMT

Hello,

usually, you don't install Alfresco on a NAS, but make it use one for file storage. The NAS server itself appears to weak to host a rich server application like Alfresco. In order to have Alfresco (running on a separate system) store content on the NAS, you usually mount the NAS as a drive on the Alfresco server via CIFS / NFS (depending on OS) and use the standard alfresco-global.properties configuration for "dir.contentstore" and "dir.contentstore.deleted" to point Alfresco to the NAS drive for storage.

Regards
Axel

Re: Synology

andy — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:43:58 GMT

No - there is not really enough memory to cope with java based servers.
Read http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18338

My 713+ only has 1G ….
It is possible to upgrade the memory if you are feeling brave ..

However there are still lots of bits to add.

It looks to me like a 32Bit Java based install may be possible - but I have not really got enough memory installed to try 🙂

Andy

Re: Synology

ryan569 — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 05:42:50 GMT

@Johan1974
I know this is an old post, but I was wondering the same thing and maybe some others are looking for info so, yes, it IS possible - with some caveats.
I got alfresco 5 community fully running on a DS3612xs using a Debian Chroot and just wgeting and running in text mode the install from the chroot.
It does work (very well), and my memory usage is about 10% of 8GB - so 800 or so - on initial install. CPU is stable around 10-15% or so - running a variety of other packages. Mind you, as the posters mentioned above, it DOES take resources - so your mileage will vary depending on hardware - my DSM is running on an i3 - but, given those limitations, it DOES work and the install (after fiddling with chroot (and patching bash repeatedly in the darn thing ) was remarkably smooth - congrats Alfresco!
Ry

PS - regarding instructions, I have given you the bare bones - you can google the chroot and there are some good resources. Note, I do NOT recommend using the syno community as the bash is unpatched and I don't know if you can patch it and I feel it is better to do yourself. I am referring to shellshocker on the bash issue - google that if you are not aware - they have a great script to patch - assuming you build with install binutils debootstrap. You obviously will need linux or a vm - I used debian. Good luck!