topic Re: How to change location of contentstore dir? in Alfresco Forum

How to change location of contentstore dir?

alessio86 — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:12:44 GMT

Hi, I was wondering how to save files on an external server (different from the installation one). After reading some community discussions, I have understood that:1. I need to change the dir.contentstore and dir.contentstore.deleted default values in the alfresco-global.properties file. But I don't

Re: How to change location of contentstore dir?

afaust — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:18:15 GMT

1) You need to specify the path to the directory in the way that you could also use as a fully qualified path on the console / shell. If you are running on WIndows you can use the UNC path or if you mounted a remote directory, you can also use the local mount drive.

2) If you only change dir.contentstore + _deleted, you need to move the contents of the old folders into the new location. You do not need to delete anything in the DB because all paths are stored relative to the contentstore.

3) If you only change dir.contentstore + _deleted, no other configuration needs to be changed.

Alfresco supports configuration of multiple content stores, so you could technically store content in multiple directories. Such a setup would require either extensive XML configuration or an addon such as Simple Content Stores.

Re: How to change location of contentstore dir?

alessio86 — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:01:52 GMT

Thanks Axel, very clear. I'm currently using a linux environment for the alfresco installation location but I want to store contentdata on an external windows server. But while reading the documentation, I found that:

You can use a remote file system but you cannot use the UNC mapped network path with it, for example:
dir.contentstore=//server1/c/contentstore/contentstoredir.contentstore.deleted=//server1/c/contentstore/contentstore.deleted
You need to use a Windows or DOS path.

I read this here: Managing content stores | Alfresco Documentation

So my problem is that I don't really understand how to write paths to an external server location.

I tried to use

dir.contentstore=//<my_server_ip>/c/new_content_dir

but it creates a new directory in my Linux server named <my_server_ip>. I know this should be easy but I'm stuck with it.

Any clues?

Thanks!

Re: How to change location of contentstore dir?

afaust — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:36:49 GMT

If you are on Linux, then you need to mount the UNC path first to a directory with a read/write capable file system driver. Then you configure the path with that mount point (and any sub-paths inside of it) with Alfresco.

Re: How to change location of contentstore dir?

alessio86 — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:43:42 GMT

Ok I got it. I was missing the part that I need to share a directory from my external server. It was my lack of experience. Thanks!

Re: How to change location of contentstore dir?

luis000 — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 03:07:55 GMT

Hi Alessio Izzo. Well right now i am in the same problem, my alfresco is installed in linux and i want to change content store into a nas windows server, so i will so grateful if you help me and show me what steps did you take.

Re: How to change location of contentstore dir?

dba100 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:57:42 GMT

but one thing, how to MIGRATE the existing content store to the NAS from local server ?

Re: How to change location of contentstore dir?

npallewatta — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 10:33:41 GMT

I have used symlinks to point to my mapped nas partition iscsidms/contentstore and contentstore.deleted from /opt/alfresco6.2/alf_data. But once I changed it to a local folder it says

"08150019 Ensure that the 'dir.root' property '/opt/alfresco6.2/alf_data' is pointing to the correct data location"

For this i deleted previous symlinks I used and added new ones to my local storage in the same machine.

New to Alfresco. Appreciate any support given to solve this.

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ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] [localhost-startStop-1] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: 08150019 Ensure that the 'dir.root' property '/opt/alfresco6.2/alf_data' is pointing to the correct data location.
at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.check(ConfigurationChecker.java:212)
at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.access$0(ConfigurationChecker.java:167)
at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker$1$1.doWork(ConfigurationChecker.java:155)
at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:602)
at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker$1.execute(ConfigurationChecker.java:151)
at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:450)
at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:338)
at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.onBootstrap(ConfigurationChecker.java:161)
at org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:56)
at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEventInternal(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:221)
at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:186)
at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:206)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:402)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:359)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:896)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:552)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:400)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:291)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:103)
at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:70)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4812)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5278)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:629)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1839)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
Sep 15, 2020 4:39:46 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class [org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener]
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: 08150019 Ensure that the 'dir.root' property '/opt/alfresco6.2/alf_data' is pointing to the correct data location.