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Alfresco aborts startup after exception in webscript init

sundance — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:03:10 GMT

I'm a Catch 22, where an Exception thrown during the init of one of my web scripts causes Alfresco to abort after startup, and I can't edit the webscript because I can't run Alfresco now. How can I startup Alfresco without initializing the webscript so that I can edit the webscript? Or otherwise edi

Re: Alfresco aborts startup after exception in webscript init

sundance — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:16:37 GMT

The webscript first exhibited the exception only after I edited it. This is Alfresco 2.1 on Windows XP.

Re: Alfresco aborts startup after exception in webscript init

davidc — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:53:42 GMT

I thought that was fixed by 2.1 - in more recent builds, if there's an error/exception during web script initialisation, it will not stop the server from starting. Instead, you get warnings, and you can see those warnings in the web script home page.

To work around, comment out the beans…

   <bean parent="webscripts.repostore">
      <property name="store"><value>workspace://SpacesStore</value></property>
      <property name="path"><value>/${spaces.company_home.childname}/${spaces.dictionary.childname}/cm:extensionwebscripts</value></property>
   </bean>

   <bean parent="webscripts.repostore">
      <property name="mustExist"><value>true</value></property>
      <property name="store"><value>workspace://SpacesStore</value></property>
      <property name="path"><value>/${spaces.company_home.childname}/${spaces.dictionary.childname}/cm:webscripts</value></property>
   </bean>
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in web-scripts-application-context.xml. Then restart, undo the change.

Then shutdown, uncomment the above beans and restart.

Re: Alfresco aborts startup after exception in webscript init

sundance — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:02:42 GMT

Hey thanks David, it worked.

Re: Alfresco aborts startup after exception in webscript init

davidc — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:07:35 GMT

no problem…