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Shared Hosting - Serving Multiple Customers from Alfresco

edgar — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:08:18 GMT

Hi,What are the options in using the Web Content Management capabilities of Alfresco (2.0) in a "shared hosting" environment. With shared hosting I mean using a single (web) server to host multiple customers, where each customer has one or possibly even more web sites running in Alfresco.A normal se

Re: Shared Hosting - Serving Multiple Customers from Alfresco

jenglert — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:49:00 GMT

Hey Edgar,
We have implemented multiple instances of Alfresco on a single Tomcat web server before. We did this to help facilitate training for a new Alfresco deployment. You can just deploy multiple copies of the Alfresco web app being sure to point each of them to a different sql database and content store. We hadn't noticed any adverse effects yet, although these installations are used relatively infrequently. Drop me a line at englert.jamesREMOVEME@gmail.com if you have more questions.

Jim

Re: Shared Hosting - Serving Multiple Customers from Alfresco

alexander — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:09:59 GMT

Some additional complication may come from virtualisation.

Virtualisation Server is separate tomcat instance, which will probably belong to particular alfresco app. It uses RMI to connect to Alfresco repo. Can it be shared?

What is a right way to deploy virtualisation in shared environment?