topic Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM in Alfresco Archive

Installation Guide does not mention WCM

edgar — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:43:18 GMT

Hi,I notice that the Alfresco 2.0 Installation Guide does not mention the Alfresco WCM at all. Are the installation steps for Alfresco WCM described anywhere (apart from the readme file in the WCM distribution)? It would be nice if you guys could add an extra paragraph about WCM to the Alfresco Inst

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

sirclueless — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:58:05 GMT

Hi,

I have the same problem . I need a documentation for Alfresco WCM. Somenody said there will a how to do Guide for Alfresco WCM, how to create a dynamic website.

Where can I find this guide?

Thx for help

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

paulhh — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:08:18 GMT

It's on SourceForge as a PDF.

Cheers
Paul.

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

sirclueless — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:18:55 GMT

Thanks. But this guide shows only how to create a website with your example. Not how can I self create my own dynamic website. That`s what I`m looking for 😕

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

edgar — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:42:13 GMT

It's on SourceForge as a PDF..

The installation manual? I cannot find it on SourceForge. The only document I see there about WCM is the Alfresco WCM Evaluation Guide which does not mention anything about installing Alfresco WCM.

The question I posed was about installation instructions for Alfresco WCM.

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

garpinc — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:51:16 GMT

How do you install WCM on a pre-existing Liferay/Alfresco 2.0.0 DMM installation…

Alfresco 2.0.0 is installed as a web application (i.e: not portlet) in tomcat application server currently.

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

steve — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:17:47 GMT

Hi,

here is the contents of the file called 'README_wcm.txt' that is contained in the WCM bundle:

Alfresco Web Content Management Enabler
—————————————

To enable Web Content Management in Alfresco, you need to install the
Virtualization server and configure WCM to bootstrap. The WCM enabler
is distributed in a ZIP or tar.gz file that needs to be extracted in the
Alfresco home directory (e.g. C:\Alfresco or /opt/alfresco). The
distribution includes virtual-tomcat and related scripts for the WCM
Virtualization server. If your unzip program asks about directories
already existing, you are safe to allow this, as only new files are
provided.

Installing WCM Bootstrap
————————

Once unzipped, the wcm-bootstrap-context.xml file needs to be moved to
the Alfresco extension directory:
- for Tomcat, this is usually tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension
- for JBoss, this is usually jboss/server/default/conf/alfresco/extension

Restart the Alfresco server for the bootstrap to take effect. You will
see information about the success of the bootstrap in the logs.

WCM Functionality
—————–

You should now find 2 additional spaces in your Alfresco repository:
- Web Projects in Company Home
- Content Forms in Data Dictionary

If you wish to use the Website Preview feature, you will need to start
the Alfresco Virtualization server:
- on Windows run virtual_start.bat
- on Linux run sh virtual_alf.sh start

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

garpinc — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:02:15 GMT

That document does not explain the steps to specify the alfresco home dir. I deployed alfresco war on tomcat. What is the alfresco home directory in this case.

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

jcox — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:11:14 GMT

If you're referring to where a user's home dir is within the
alfresco space hierarchy, you do that when you create the
user.

If you mean the dir.root property that determines where
the backing store is held within the native OS file system,
then have a look at the following wiki page:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Developer_Runtime_Configuration

-Jon

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

jgoth — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:48:54 GMT

I'm having the same issue - maybe I can reword…

The WCM download expects that Alfresco was installed using the Windows or Linux installer. That is, if overlays the files on the expected directory structure the installer creates.

However, what do you do if you manually installed Alfresco? That is, I downloaded the WAR and installed to an existing Tomcat/MySQL instance.

I understand the wcm-bootstrap-context.xml goes in the class path for the shared class loaded (for me /opt/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension), but are there any other files (.jar's, .war's etc.) that need to be deployed to an existing Tomcat instance from the archive?

Thanks.

Jason

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

steve — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:42:33 GMT

Nope,

All you have to do to activate it is place the 'wcm-bootstrap-context.xml' into the extension directory and restart Alfresco.

Have you tried doing this?

Note - this is what the readme tells you to do.

To get virtualisation, you also have to start up the virtualisation server.

Steve

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

jgoth — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:44:48 GMT

It worked. Thanks Steve.

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

wfischer75 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:51:19 GMT

Steve - -

Installing the WCM component is easy enough, but how do I get the virtualization server working? I chose to do the WAR install of Alfresco, not the Tomcat version.

I am running my Community install of Alfresco on Centos (Redhat). Tomcat on my machine is at:

/var/lib/tomcat5/

I see that virtual_alf.sh looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
# Start or stop Alfresco server
# Set the following to where Tomcat is installed
APPSERVER=/opt/alfresco/virtual-tomcat
# Set any default JVM values
#
if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
"$APPSERVER"/bin/startup.sh
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
"$APPSERVER"/bin/shutdown.sh
fi

——————————–

So what changes should I make to virtual_alf.sh and where should I put it?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

steve — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:18:15 GMT

Hi,

Make sure you have the 'virtual-tomcat' files that are included in the WCM package.
This is a separate Tomcat instance configured to work alongside the already installed Tomcat on your machine to provide the virtualisation capabilities.

Steve

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

wfischer75 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:13:21 GMT

Steve thanks – I do have the virtual-tomcat directory as well, that includes the parallel tomcat instance.

My question is: where should i put this directory? Does it matter? What is the best command to use to start the virtualization server? Thanks.

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

dorababup — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:12:19 GMT

Hi,
I am new to Alfresco and Liferay. I am presently working on Alfresco WCM integration with Liferay. I deployed alfesco-enterprise-war-2.1.0, its a Enterprise Content Management war. Here i am getting Alfresco client portlet but i am not getting WebProjects option in the left navigation pane. How should i get this option to achive WCM in liferay using Alfesco. its very urgent. Plz help me.

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

stanquinn — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:24:25 GMT

Steve thanks – I do have the virtual-tomcat directory as well, that includes the parallel tomcat instance.

My question is: where should i put this directory? Does it matter? What is the best command to use to start the virtualization server? Thanks.

Can someone answer these questions? They are pretty basic and the installation README for WCM doesn't work for the standard WAR install. Getting Alfresco up and running wasn't too difficult once the database was setup (MySQL in my case) and tomcat was restarted on an open port (I'm running alfresco locally on my Windows Dev machine for now while I'm getting familiar with it). You make the relevant configuration changes and drop it into the web-apps directory. It unpacks and everything runs smoothly. Now getting WCM to work is much less intuitive, especially since the directions boil down to "the wcm-bootstrap-context.xml file needs to be moved to the Alfresco extension directory". Did that. Restarted the tomcat server (why is it always trying to confuse me by saying restart the Alfresco server?) and nada. There is no "Company Home". There's only "My Home" and "My Alfresco" and under "My Home" there's a "Guest Home", while under the "My Alfresco" dashboard there's a number of useful links, but again, no "Company Home". Note…the directory {tomcat home}/shared/classes/alfresco/extension didn't exist, so I created it and stuck that xml file in there. Now even if this were to work, there's no mention of where to stick the virtualization server. Alongside tomcat? Inside tomcat in the expanded Alresco directory from the unpacked War? Inside the webapps directory? Note the options while not endless are are many and a pointer in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

Re: Installation Guide does not mention WCM

mikeh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:52:34 GMT

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Downloading_and_Installing_WCM

You might only be logged-in as guest, which is why you're not seeing everything. Try logging in as admin instead.

Mike