topic Giving Up - Installing Alfresco is way too hard in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/giving-up-installing-alfresco-is-way-too-hard/m-p/128294#M90202 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>After days of trying to install alfresco I'm giving up and will continue my search for a great cms elsewhere.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I just can't get any installation of alfresco no matter what I do. I'm not stupid and I've done reasonably complex program installations before, but alfresco's installation procedure&nbsp; just leaves me completely lost.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I can't afford to waste this much time just trying to get a program to install.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Not having any installers, or installation wizards in the bundled download I feel is a real disincentive to having alfresco taken up by&nbsp; the larger marketplace.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hopefully this will be rectified in future releases, but until then I won't be recommending it to any of my clients.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:56:25 GMT mdg 2007-11-12T23:56:25Z Giving Up - Installing Alfresco is way too hard https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/giving-up-installing-alfresco-is-way-too-hard/m-p/128294#M90202 After days of trying to install alfresco I'm giving up and will continue my search for a great cms elsewhere.I just can't get any installation of alfresco no matter what I do. I'm not stupid and I've done reasonably complex program installations before, but alfresco's installation procedure&nbsp; just le Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:56:25 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/giving-up-installing-alfresco-is-way-too-hard/m-p/128294#M90202 mdg 2007-11-12T23:56:25Z Re: Giving Up - Installing Alfresco is way too hard https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/giving-up-installing-alfresco-is-way-too-hard/m-p/128295#M90203 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It's a shame you're giving up without us being able to help you.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I believe we could have got you up-and-running with the Tomcat bundle you had originally downloaded, but without seeing any log files it's impossible to tell what went wrong - it was probably something "simple but non-obvious".</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>One final option you might want to consider: you can always sign up for our </SPAN><STRONG>Hosted Trial</STRONG><SPAN> which will allow you to evaluate Alfresco before going back to solving deployment issues. Please see here: </SPAN><A href="http://www.alfresco.com/products/ecm/hostedtrials/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.com/products/ecm/hostedtrials/</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:20:58 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/giving-up-installing-alfresco-is-way-too-hard/m-p/128295#M90203 mikeh 2007-11-13T09:20:58Z