topic Can create site from share UI, not from command line. in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-create-site-from-share-ui-not-from-command-line/m-p/299244#M252374 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Using OOTB Alfresco 5 Community edition running on Ubuntu14.04</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Steps: Create site through the share UI. Copy request as curl from Chromium developer tools. Reconstructed request in python requests library as:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN><SPAN>s=requests.post('</SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://</A><SPAN>&lt;IP&gt;:8080/share/service/modules/create-site',data=site_data,cookies=THE_cookie</SPAN></SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Where THE_cookie was obtained via a POST to </SPAN><A href="http://:8080/share/page/dologin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://:8080/share/page/dologin</A><SPAN>, which gave a 200, and site_data has different names to the site created through the share UI.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>That request gave a 500 error stating that</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN> u'freemarker.core.InvalidReferenceException: The following has evaluated to null or missing:\n==&gt; success&nbsp; [in template "org/alfresco/modules/create-site.post.json.ftl" at line 2, column 17]\n\nTip: If the failing expression is known to be legally null/missing, either specify a default value with myOptionalVar!myDefault, or use &lt;#if myOptionalVar??&gt;when-present&lt;#else&gt;when-missing&lt;/#if&gt;. (These only cover the last step of the expression; to cover the whole expression, use parenthessis: (myOptionVar.foo)!myDefault, (myOptionVar.foo)??\n\nThe failing instruction:\n==&gt; ${success?string}&nbsp; [in template "org/alfresco/modules/create-site.post.json.ftl" at line 2, column 15]', …</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When in Chromium, there is no response, but a site is created successfully.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've also not got the curl request from the command line to work – it needs the CSRF token removed, then gives a 200 and does nothing; no logs. My understanding is that Alfresco always gives a 200 on a successful request regardless of whether it's a GET or POST.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If anyone has any ideas that would be amazing. There doesn't seem to be anything that we can do to get create-site to work outside of the share UI, but we absolutely need it to do so. I know I've asked this on StackExchange, however there have been no answers and I have spent some considerable time going through the code.</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:50:05 GMT jocylincouch 2014-09-03T10:50:05Z Can create site from share UI, not from command line. https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-create-site-from-share-ui-not-from-command-line/m-p/299244#M252374 Using OOTB Alfresco 5 Community edition running on Ubuntu14.04Steps: Create site through the share UI. Copy request as curl from Chromium developer tools. Reconstructed request in python requests library as:s=requests.post('http://&lt;IP&gt;:8080/share/service/modules/create-site',data=site_data,coo Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:50:05 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-create-site-from-share-ui-not-from-command-line/m-p/299244#M252374 jocylincouch 2014-09-03T10:50:05Z Re: Can create site from share UI, not from command line. https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-create-site-from-share-ui-not-from-command-line/m-p/299245#M252375 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Unfortunatly creating a site is a two step process and only half the site is created on the back end.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are JIRAs and discussions in these forums about this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However the bottom line is that although it is not as straightforward as it should be it is possible.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Sep 2014 11:04:08 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-create-site-from-share-ui-not-from-command-line/m-p/299245#M252375 mrogers 2014-09-03T11:04:08Z Re: Can create site from share UI, not from command line. https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-create-site-from-share-ui-not-from-command-line/m-p/299246#M252376 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've just attempted again but editting the share-config-custom.xml to allow requests from outside of a browser with no CSRF token (as per </SPAN><A href="https://forums.alfresco.com/comment/140283#comment-140283" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://forums.alfresco.com/comment/140283#comment-140283</A><SPAN> – see the comment near the bottom), however the problem still manifests. The only ticket I can find that's relevant is </SPAN><A href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MNT-11706?jql=text%20~%20%22create-site%22" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MNT-11706?jql=text%20~%20%22create-site%22</A><SPAN> which currently has no resolution. Can you point out any that do show a resolution/workaround? I just can't believe that this doesn't work OOTB.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:59:45 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-create-site-from-share-ui-not-from-command-line/m-p/299246#M252376 jocylincouch 2014-09-04T13:59:45Z