topic Installing problems... (nooby) in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-problems-nooby/m-p/120353#M84828 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi All,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Like quite a few other peeps, I'm getting a little confused as to how to install/configure Alfresco Community.&nbsp; I am not a WebApp guru, I have a networking background, all things Microsoft; Novell; Linux etc.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am trying to install Alfresco 2.1 Community onto a CentOS-5 server.&nbsp; I am installing JAVA; MySQL; Apache &amp; Samba during the install of CentOS.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>At the server console the following cmd </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>'/usr/sbin/alternatives –config java' returns:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>There is 1 program that provides 'java'.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; Selection&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Command</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>———————————————–</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>*+ 1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What I wanted to </SPAN><STRONG>ask</STRONG><SPAN> was, where should I be putting the extracted .War file 'alfresco-community-war-2.1.0.tar.gz ' that I downloaded from '</SPAN><A href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&amp;package_id=157460&amp;release_id=524558" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&amp;package_id=157460&amp;release_id=524558</A><SPAN>'?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I do not know where in the file system I need to drop the War file, and how do I start that service?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Also, I read somewhere that I will need:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>-'JPackage Java compatibility package for Sun's JDK' but I take it that I would only need this if I was using the SDK rather than the JVM!&nbsp; Please correct me if I am wrong.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>-MySQL Java connector.&nbsp; Again, do I need this?&nbsp; &amp; how do I conf.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help or suggestions about the easiest possible method of installing a basic Alfresco Community system would be gratefully received.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Once I have demo'ed the product to my management, I may be able to get a budget for the Alfrsco Enterprise version, but until then I need to get a Community version running.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Danny</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>PS:&nbsp; Although I have a JVM JRE1.4.2 installed do I still need to install something like JBoss or Tomcat?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:41:51 GMT dannyrichards 2007-10-10T11:41:51Z Installing problems... (nooby) https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-problems-nooby/m-p/120353#M84828 Hi All,Like quite a few other peeps, I'm getting a little confused as to how to install/configure Alfresco Community.&nbsp; I am not a WebApp guru, I have a networking background, all things Microsoft; Novell; Linux etc.I am trying to install Alfresco 2.1 Community onto a CentOS-5 server.&nbsp; I am installin Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:41:51 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-problems-nooby/m-p/120353#M84828 dannyrichards 2007-10-10T11:41:51Z Re: Installing problems... (nooby) https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-problems-nooby/m-p/120354#M84829 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Well, I've got as far as beggining to get my head around it:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>-alfresco.sh runs </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>-Java &amp; Paths configured</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>but now getting a new error, so a new post:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?p=30161#30161" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?p=30161#30161</A></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:55:28 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-problems-nooby/m-p/120354#M84829 dannyrichards 2007-10-10T23:55:28Z Re: Installing problems... (nooby) https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-problems-nooby/m-p/120355#M84830 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The readme that comes with Alfresco gives you information on what to do with it.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Also, we have all this info in the wiki:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Server_Installation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Server_Installation</A></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:29:21 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-problems-nooby/m-p/120355#M84830 steve 2007-10-16T16:29:21Z