topic Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server in Alfresco Archive

Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

glaksmono — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:44:36 GMT

What do you need to do to create multiple repositories on the same server? Do you need to redeploy the Alfresco app for each instance? Can we share the application server instance so that we don't have to open new ports for new instance?

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

turgayz — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:20:49 GMT

I also wonder the answer to this question.
If it is possible to host more than one repository in an Alfresco deployment, then it would be possible to host an ASP solution supporting more than one customer.

Regards,
Turgay Zengin

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

unknown-user — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:52:18 GMT

I am wondering if there is any way we can host multiple repositories on the same server. This might require us to disable the Company Home space access to all the other instances and provide the common space for each repository with the company name. I am not sure how this can be achieved. Can some one in this group throw some light on this?

TIA

Regards/RK

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

robhowarth — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:40:22 GMT

Did you guys ever find out the answer to this ? Hosting multiple repositories is something I'm looking to do, also…..

Cheers
Rob

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

evdgeest — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:59:07 GMT

I am also very interested in the possibilities of hosting an ASP solution. Does anyone have more information on this?

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Edwin

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

enomaly — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:36:18 GMT

I would recommend using server virtualization to do this. Each virtual machine could contain a prebuilt alfresco install.

Check out http://www.enomalism.com

We could provide the alfresco image if anyone is interested.

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

ga_katie — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:41:36 GMT

this topic has been open for two years…

is there no answer to the original question?

or, is there a reason it can't work that way?

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

theorbix — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:30:57 GMT

Hello,

As far as I've seen, Alfresco currently has been not been designed for ASP (Application Service Provisioning) implementations.

Are there plans to implement support for multiple repositories from the same "instance" of Alfresco?

This could be a first step to provide ASP support (assuming the creation of one indipendent repository for each customer).

I've seen the other posts suggesting the use of a virtualization technology (VMWare or similar, I guess), but although this approach has a number of other benefits, it would not be as elegant as having a version of Alfresco enhanced to provide support for multiple, indipendent and concurrent document repositories…

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

paulhh — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:18:51 GMT

Hi

We have been prototyping an extension that does provide multi-tenant features. At the moment we're looking at whether it's worth pursuing.

Cheers
Paul.

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

laradji — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:19:24 GMT

Hi

We have been prototyping an extension that does provide multi-tenant features. At the moment we're looking at whether it's worth pursuing.

Cheers
Paul.

I am very interested in this module ,do you have any new information ?

Having multiple company with each administrator in the same alfresco instance will be awesome .

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

janv — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:16:06 GMT

Here are some details …

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/MT

… available for early access preview & feedback.

Thanks,
Jan

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

bergerrc — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:18:22 GMT

The multi-tenancy option enabled on Alfresco 3.x is very useful tool when you don't have to change the main funcionalities, but when you need to separate your binaries data or your database, or implement customized forms, you'll certainly have a headache. I tried to do this to implement a SAAS platform using Alfresco, but when you customize some accounts the next restart will give you a "Could not startup tenants…" message. This is not acceptable for a SAAS stable solution, so I've tried another alternative.

First choosing an application server with Virtual Hosts capability (i.e. Tomcat), after a DBMS with similar hosting isolation (i.e. MySQL). Ohh you can say…
Both have the option to divide the data about each account. To do the same you must to config:

MySQL: Startup with mysqld_multi
On each enabled account you must the change the my.cnf to add database config, with new ports, sockets and *.pids. The new database maybe started independently.

Tomcat: Adding a new <host> node on server.xml you can specify that a DNS address (i.e. tenant1.mycompany.com) can reach the same application using the same 80 http port.

Alfresco: How to point Alfresco to new database and different binaries path? Simple, you must change the /conf/Catalina/tenant1.mycompany.com/alfresco.xml file created after the first deploy of your new server. This file accepts properties like "datase.url", "root.dir", "email.server", etc.

Good luck everybody.

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

janv — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:10:15 GMT

In terms of …

"Could not startup tenants…"

… which version/build were you using ? If you still have the the server log and steps to repeat, can you please log the details in JIRA ? Have you tried this against the latest Community and/or Enterprise (Trial) ?

Thanks,
Jan

Re: Hosting multiple repositories on the same server

komin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:30:34 GMT

I also need this info,Thanks for sharing.