topic Re: Where is the installation documentation? in Alfresco Archive

Where is the installation documentation?

jonnycavell — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:06:49 GMT

HiI may be missing something, but I cannot find any information on the most basic thing - how to install Alfresco (Community Edition) on Windows. There is no reference or link to "installation" from the homepage, and my next choice, clicking on the menu item "Documentation", also yielded a page cont

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

paulhh — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:14:27 GMT

Hi

Yes, it's something we're aware of and trying to make clearer. The JBoss, Tomcat and WAR bundles need to be unzipped and contain READMEs that say what to do. However, the installer bundles are just binaries - so you don't get to see the README until it's installed 🙂

What we want to do is come up with a very simple description of each bundle and the minimum needed to get going on each of them, then add it to the Downloads page on our web site.

For you on Windows, you have 4 bundles to choose from:

Installer (setup)
——————
Contains everything you need, including:
- JDK 1.5
- OpenOffice (portable)
- Tomcat
- Alfresco server (WAR)
- Startup scripts and platform-specific binaries
- Hypersonic DB

An install wizard puts it all in one place ready to go, including shortcuts on the Start menu. The wizard also give you the option of not installing the JDK or OpenOffice (but if you already have the correct version of these, you may be better off with one of the other bundles as a smaller download).

The installer bundle is the best option for exploring Alfresco, since you can be up and running in a few minutes without worrying about whether you have the right JDK and so on.

If you want to use a different DB than Hypersonic (which you will if you want to use it for anything serious), then you should configure that before starting the Alfresco server for the first time. You can change later, but it means you have to worry about migrating data and content properly. It's ideal for building little demos and proofs-ot-concept, since the DB is portable.

Tomcat
——–
Contains:
- Tomcat
- Alfresco server (WAR)
- Startup scripts and platform-specific binaries
- Hypersonic DB

If you already have JDK 1.5 and OpenOffice installed, then you just need to unzip the Tomcat bundle somewhere and run the alf_start script. The startup scripts all run relative to their location - you can even move the Alfresco folder somewhere else later and everything should still run. Again, by default the Hypersonic DB will be used, so deciding which DB you want to use is best done before the first start up.

JBoss
——
Contains:
- JBoss including JBoss Portal
- Alfresco server (WAR)
- Startup scripts and platform-specific binaries
- Hypersonic DB

If you already have JDK 1.5 and OpenOffice installed, then you just need to unzip the JBoss bundle somewhere and run the alf_start script, just as for the Tomcat bundle.

A key thing to note is that JBoss Portal is included and the Alfresco server (WAR) has a few library differences to the standard Tomcat and WAR bundles to resolve clashes in JBoss Portal.

WAR
—–
Contains:
- Alfresco server (WAR)
- Startup scripts and platform-specific binaries

This bundle assumes you have the correct JDK, OpenOffice and Java container and know what you're doing. This bundle is often the best to take for upgrades, since it's the smallest and has everything that is Alfresco-specific.

There is also the SDK bundle, which is aimed at developers and contains the full Alfresco server and source code.

Hope that helps!

Cheers
Paul.

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

jonnycavell — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:32:47 GMT

Thanks very much - that was extremely useful information!

I've got it up and running now, but just one more thing - are there any docs on how to get it running using SQL Server? Thanks.

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

aznk — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:43:43 GMT

Hi,
I'm a bit confused about sdk.

I followed instructions here :
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_SDK
where it was said that "SDK is used stand-alone, but an Alfresco Release Installation is also required"

So we need also to install the alfresco release installation in order to run alfresco on the web browser ? Or does the sdk contain all the necessary files to run alfresco on tomcat for example ?

I also explored content of alfresco-community-sdk-1.4.0, but I'm not sure where we should put the content, in an already existing alfresco installation ? If yes, where exactly ?

Thanks.

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

rivetlogic — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:38:15 GMT

Hi,

The Alfresco SDK is standalone. It can sit anywhere you like. The idea is for it to fit in your development environment easily.

The product of an Alfresco SDK customization is an alfresco.war file that needs to be deployed into an Alfresco runtime environment (e.g. Tomcat or JBossAS).

That is why you need a running installation of Alfresco to actually see your customization(s) in action.

That said, the answer to your question:

So we need also to install the alfresco release installation in order to run alfresco on the web browser ? Or does the sdk contain all the necessary files to run alfresco on tomcat for example ?

is that you need to install the alfresco release installation in order to run alfresco on the web browser.

Hope this helps.

-Aladdin

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

aznk — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:49:45 GMT

Hi,
Thanks for your answer.
I could make alfresco sdk work properly and tested it successfully.
However, I couldn't make clear the difference between using sdk or SVN bundles, apart from the fact that SVN contains all build files and is aimed to develop bug fixes or extend the core of alfresco.
We would like to customize the interface, add some aspects and modify some behaviors. We also would like ton integrate a wiki functionality. I could see a plugin developed on forge for this :
http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/wikispace/
but apparently, it requires installing SVN and deploying while projects.
What do you advise me to do in our case ? As deploying all project takes a lot of time…
Kind regards.

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

rivetlogic — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:15:40 GMT

Hi,

Your understanding of the difference between SDK and SVN is correct. You shouldn't need to mess with the SVN codebase unless you want to make changes to the Alfresco core. Even then some core changes can be made using the SDK. In other words, try to avoid having to make changes to the core as much as possible. That will make your life much easier when upgrading Alfresco versions.

As far as the wiki project is concerned, it has been developed for Alfresco 1.3. That is most probably why it wasn't implemented using the SDK.

My advice to you would be to take the wiki files and put them into an Eclipse project that follows the SDK coding style. You can look at the sample projects that come with the SDK to see how to do that. Make sure to add all your extensions to that project and deploy it as a single JAR.

Cheers,

–Aladdin

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

aznk — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:47:16 GMT

Hi,

Indeed, this project has been developed for version 1.3, and there are some incompatibilities since I'm using 1.4.

There are some files we need to modify before deploying them, one of them is "web_TEMPLATE.xml" and was used at build-time to generate a clean web.xml in version 1.3. I couldn't find any corresponding files in Alfresco, should I try to modify wel.xml or another file instead ?

About putting the files in the sdk, is it right to do the following things :
- import the files into eclipse instead of copying them in the codebase (since we're not messing with svn)
- copy files to modify from the svn codebase into eclipse, since some of them don't exist in alfresco installation
- package all this with a build.xml file

Cheers

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

rivetlogic — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:53:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm not familiar with the details for that project's code, but you have the right idea.

Just remember that the product of an Alfresco SDK project build is an entire alfresco.war file. So if you find yourself in the position where you must edit a core alfresco file (e.g. web.xml), then you can have that file in your project, and you will have to maintain it. Any changes made to that file should then be pushed into the vanilla alfresco.war to replace the one that is already there.

Hope this helps,

–Aladdin

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

mdg — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:37:08 GMT

Hi

Yes, it's something we're aware of and trying to make clearer…. etc

…
Hope that helps!

Cheers
Paul.

Maybe things have changed since you posted this reply, but the download and installation process still isn't any clearer and there isn't any download file actually called Installer that I can find on the download page.

When I go to the download page it doesn't seem to make any distinction between operating systems, windows or otherwise, it just says if you're not sure which one you need download the tomcat zip. Then when I click on the Download Alfresco Community link I get to the Source Forge page and am given nine files to choose from. The zip and tar zip options are self evident, as are the PDFs and war, but do I need the alfresco-mmt-2.1.0.jar and the sample extensions?

Also, there doesn't seem to be any install wizard that I can find, and following the instructions in the readme txt doesn't produce any useful results either.

Now I'm totally lost. I've downloaded the program, unzipped it as per instructions, ran the bat file and nothing happens.

I would really appreciate some straight forward and simple instructions on how to install it and get it up and running.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

mikeh — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:21:58 GMT

Hi

Presumably you've been following the installation steps in the README.txt within the zip file?

When you say you "ran the bat file and nothing happens" do you mean the Tomcat window doesn't appear at all? Are there any log files you can post the contents of?

Also, it would be useful to describe exactly what you've done so far and what system you're trying to install on.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

mdg — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:18:09 GMT

Hi Mike,

| had written a long and detailed response to your post, but the forum logged me out before i could post it. I'm not going to write it again cos I'll probably get logged out again.

All I will say is look at the poll at the top of this post. Over 90% of people want an installation guide. Something is very amiss here. :roll:

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

mikeh — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:37:47 GMT

Hi

With respect, the original post and poll is over a year old now so it's very difficult to tell if people are still having problems or not. Looking at the sheer number of SourceForge downloads would indicate most people don't. Having said that, there's always room for improvement!

With regards your situation, it's very difficult/impossible to help without further details. We know people have been installing using just the readme, most with first-time success; so these setup niggles are usually pretty easy to solve with a bit more information.

Finally, if you're having problems with forum timeouts I'd recommend writing your post in Notepad then copy/pasting in - or use Firefox which saves the contents of text boxes 😉

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

mdg — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:11:46 GMT

Mike,

please excuse my frustration, and thanks for taking the time to reply.

What I want to do is use alfresco for web content management. Obviously I'm a long way from that at the moment.

I'm not a programmer, I'm a business manager and consultant and I download and evaluate programs for clients constantly. However, I have been known to successfully rewrite code in the past, although it's not something I'm fond of doing.

Anyway, I have my desktop set up to tun as a development server and I'm already running apache, mysql via wamp on my PC.

I realise that in itself means I'm going to have to rewrite some things, maybe a lot of things.

I'm also running the latest version of jde 1.6 and the latest version of Tomcat 6. They are all working fine.

I installed tomcat 6 separately as the version in the alfresco file didn't seem to be actually doing anything.

I also have an old version of open office 1.1. I didn't upgrade it as one of the readme's said there were problems with version 2

Obviously, this means that some of the programs aren't where Alfresco expects to find them, but first of all I want to make sure I put alfresco where I need it.

IE If I want to run alfresco for web cms via my desktop server folder, so do I still put the program in C:\alfresco or do I put it somewhere in the root folder or otherwise of the website folder?

Can I leave my working version of Tomcat where it is C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat and rewrite some files in alfresco to point to it, or should I move it somewhere else?

Also, I don't think the jre home environment variable is set correctly, but I wouldn't know where to go to correct it. (I did find one post that said how to do it, but when I followed the instructions it didn't exactly show what the post said it should show, so I was unable to make any change.)

I do feel as if I've made some progress since I last posted as I've got various different programs installed and working. I now just need to get them working with alfresco.

Thanks again for any help.

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

mikeh — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:33:22 GMT

Hi

Unfortunately you're creating extra work for yourself by using Tomcat 6 (which isn't officially supported by the way due to the changes made from v5.5) so I'd highly recommend getting up-and-running with the bundled version first.

Having said that, if y ou do want to go with the system you've got, you need to deploy the alfresco.war file into your Tomcat instance, i.e. its webapps folder, rather than going with the c:\alfresco structure.

To set the JAVA_HOME variable, hit Windows-E to bring up Explorer, right-click properties on "My Computer". On the Advanced tab, choose "Environment Variables" then the lower "New" button.

Variable name = JAVA_HOME
Variable value = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_02‍‍

Note: make sure you're using the right Java path for your system.

Copy the war file to webapps, then start Tomcat.

As I said, you'd be much better off going with the bundled Tomcat v5.5 but see whether the above helps.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

mdg — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:44:32 GMT

I had a feeling you'd say something like that.

The reason i loaded up Tomcat v 6 was because the bundled version with alfresco didn't seem to be doing anything, and also I couldn't find any installer for the bundled version of Tomcat.

At least with v 6 I now know what it's supposed to look like, how it installs and works etc, and that I can actually get it to work on my PC

I'll probably try setting up alfresco with both, just cos I'm a glutton for punishment.

At this stage I'd just settle for getting alfresco working in any form.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Dammit, this forum keeps logging me out after just a few minutes, and I'm not exaggerating.

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

eraser — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:57:54 GMT

I can understand you.

On my computer running an customermanagement system iÃ‚Â´m wrote myself on TomCat 6 with MySql 5. Now I want to combine it with an document management system.

Alfresco looks as it can work (the mysql database).

But my first try (downloading the WAR Version) ends in a desaster. I wrote a Message here to run Alfresco on TomCat 6 but up to now nobody answer. Here im reading 6 isnÃ‚Â´t supported.

The Changes - from readme.txt - to run this software with mysql seems to run. I had some tables on my db-server.

OK … Yesterday i started a second try by downloading the TomcatBundle. Now i am on the same point - Tomcat is running but alfresco throws error messages and is still offline.

I donÃ‚Â´t know what is wrong - up to now i think i understand my work

Here the output from alfresco.log:


20:30:57,029 WARN  [org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiRegistryFactoryBean] Could not detect RMI registry - creating new one
20:31:00,334 WARN  [org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] A connection to OpenOffice could not be established.
20:31:05,872 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect.
20:31:08,055 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No changes were made to the schema.
20:31:15,806 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Bootstrap failed
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterBootstrap.bootstrap(ImporterBootstrap.java:444)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterBootstrap.onBootstrap(ImporterBootstrap.java:666)
   at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:62)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1.run(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
   at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute(SyncTaskExecutor.java:49)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:241)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:349)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:156)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3764)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4216)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:825)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:714)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)
Caused by: org.alfresco.repo.search.SearcherException: More than one root node in index: 2
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.LeafScorer.initialise(LeafScorer.java:252)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.LeafScorer.<init>(LeafScorer.java:164)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.PathScorer.createPathScorer(PathScorer.java:167)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.PathQuery$StructuredFieldWeight.scorer(PathQuery.java:258)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:130)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:100)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.getMoreDocs(Hits.java:66)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.<init>(Hits.java:45)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:45)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:37)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.ADMLuceneSearcherImpl.query(ADMLuceneSearcherImpl.java:272)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.SearcherComponent.query(SearcherComponent.java:85)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent$NodeImporter.resolveImportedNodeRef(ImporterComponent.java:1026)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent$NodeImporter.end(ImporterComponent.java:746)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent.parserImport(ImporterComponent.java:361)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent.importView(ImporterComponent.java:224)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterBootstrap.bootstrap(ImporterBootstrap.java:426)
   … 35 more
20:31:15,806 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Bootstrap failed
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterBootstrap.bootstrap(ImporterBootstrap.java:444)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterBootstrap.onBootstrap(ImporterBootstrap.java:666)
   at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:62)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1.run(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
   at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute(SyncTaskExecutor.java:49)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:241)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:349)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:156)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3764)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4216)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:825)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:714)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)
Caused by: org.alfresco.repo.search.SearcherException: More than one root node in index: 2
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.LeafScorer.initialise(LeafScorer.java:252)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.LeafScorer.<init>(LeafScorer.java:164)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.PathScorer.createPathScorer(PathScorer.java:167)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.PathQuery$StructuredFieldWeight.scorer(PathQuery.java:258)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:130)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:100)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.getMoreDocs(Hits.java:66)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.<init>(Hits.java:45)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:45)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:37)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.ADMLuceneSearcherImpl.query(ADMLuceneSearcherImpl.java:272)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.SearcherComponent.query(SearcherComponent.java:85)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent$NodeImporter.resolveImportedNodeRef(ImporterComponent.java:1026)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent$NodeImporter.end(ImporterComponent.java:746)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent.parserImport(ImporterComponent.java:361)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent.importView(ImporterComponent.java:224)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterBootstrap.bootstrap(ImporterBootstrap.java:426)
   … 35 more
20:31:15,816 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/alfresco]] Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.alfresco.web.app.ContextListener
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Bootstrap failed
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterBootstrap.bootstrap(ImporterBootstrap.java:444)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterBootstrap.onBootstrap(ImporterBootstrap.java:666)
   at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:62)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1.run(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
   at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute(SyncTaskExecutor.java:49)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:241)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:349)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:156)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3764)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4216)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:825)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:714)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433)
Caused by: org.alfresco.repo.search.SearcherException: More than one root node in index: 2
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.LeafScorer.initialise(LeafScorer.java:252)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.LeafScorer.<init>(LeafScorer.java:164)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.PathScorer.createPathScorer(PathScorer.java:167)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.query.PathQuery$StructuredFieldWeight.scorer(PathQuery.java:258)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:130)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:100)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.getMoreDocs(Hits.java:66)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.<init>(Hits.java:45)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:45)
   at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:37)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.ADMLuceneSearcherImpl.query(ADMLuceneSearcherImpl.java:272)
   at org.alfresco.repo.search.SearcherComponent.query(SearcherComponent.java:85)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent$NodeImporter.resolveImportedNodeRef(ImporterComponent.java:1026)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent$NodeImporter.end(ImporterComponent.java:746)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent.parserImport(ImporterComponent.java:361)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterComponent.importView(ImporterComponent.java:224)
   at org.alfresco.repo.importer.ImporterBootstrap.bootstrap(ImporterBootstrap.java:426)
   … 35 more


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and here the output from catalinaxxxxxx.log


13.11.2007 20:30:18 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8090
13.11.2007 20:30:18 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1332 ms
13.11.2007 20:30:19 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
13.11.2007 20:30:19 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.23
13.11.2007 20:30:19 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
13.11.2007 20:30:21 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war
13.11.2007 20:31:15 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SCHWERWIEGEND: Error listenerStart
13.11.2007 20:31:15 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SCHWERWIEGEND: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
13.11.2007 20:31:18 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8090
13.11.2007 20:31:18 org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
13.11.2007 20:31:18 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 59526 ms
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I hope someone can help me … at this time im just want to get it runnig.

The second - far away - step is to see how it works with our documentscanner and if i can combine it anyway with the customermanagement system.

thanks
Eraser

ps: sorry my english is not so good!

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

mikeh — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:39:36 GMT

Hi

Could you try the suggestion posted here please? http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?p=28172#28172

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

eraser — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:35:55 GMT

Hi! Many Thanks!!!!

IÃ‚Â´m deleting all Tables from alfresco - db and the folder "c:\alfresco\alf_data" after this iÃ‚Â´m starting alf_start.bat from "c:\alfresco" - now it is running!

Now it would be interesting how it works with TomCat 6, because running two TomCat Server is a little extreme - i think. Is here someone who can tell witch Files had to move to witch destination?

At this time i can use alfresco for practise - thanks again!

Eraser

Re: Where is the installation documentation?

davidd — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:44:57 GMT

I still think a proper PDF installation guide would be a great help to everyone.