topic Re: Change FTP landing folder in Alfresco Forum

[SOLVED] Change FTP landing folder

tonystra — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 21:30:34 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to change the default directory for FTP service.My installation is Alfresco Community 5.2.0 By default, when a user gets connected to Alfresco FTP, he lands in directory Alfresco, but i want a specific subfolder (i.e. /Alfresco/Sites/ftp-root/documentLibrary).I've followed some tips s

Re: Change FTP landing folder

afaust — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:35:59 GMT

The context XML file cannot contain the content you mentioned. It is a Spring file, not an Alfresco Config file (those with the config + evaluator + condition blocks).

It is more appropriate to configure the root path (for all protocols, not just FTP, because CIFS/SMB + FTP share the config) via a custom.properties file and including the "filesystem.rootPath" property, which should have an XPath to the root folder.

Re: Change FTP landing folder

cesarista — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:54:19 GMT

For example, if your repository folder is /Inbox/FTP , in your alfresco-global.properties you should set something like:

protocols.rootPath=/app:company_home/cm:Inbox/cm:FTP

Regards.

--C.

Re: Change FTP landing folder

tonystra — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:54:26 GMT

Hi Axel,

thanks for the quick reply.

When you say "It is more appropriate to configure the root path via a custom.properties file and including the "filesystem.rootPath" property, which should have an XPath to the root folder." you mean that this properties file must be defined somewhere.

Where it should be defined? Do I still need to create the custom-file-servers-context.xml to define this custom properties?

Thanks,

Antonio.

Re: Change FTP landing folder

tonystra — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:04:29 GMT

Hi Cesar,

thanks to you too.

As asked to Axel, also in this case, this property must be defined in the spring file?

In my case, it is /Alfresco/Sites/ftp-root/documentLibrary

The property should be:

protocols.rootPath=/app:company_home//cm:Alfresco/cmites/cm:ftp-root/cm:documentLibrary

Am I right?

How the spring file should be defined?

Thanks for your help.

Re: Change FTP landing folder

afaust — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:17:06 GMT

"Where it should be defined?" => in a file, let's call it "custom.properties" within that subsystem (basically were you already put the context XML file).

The whole reason of the properties file is that you do not need the XML file for any configuration that can already be done by setting a simple property. So no, you will not need that file when you use the property.

Re: Change FTP landing folder

cesarista — Tue, 01 May 2018 09:22:54 GMT

As commented by Axel, you do not need the spring file (you can ignore it), and you just need to add the cited property in $TOMCAT/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties (and restart Alfresco).

Other option is to include it in a properties file for the correspoding extended filesystem subsystem. If you prefer this way you missed subsystems folder under the path:

/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/fileServers/default/default/

Regards.

--C.

Re: Change FTP landing folder

tonystra — Wed, 02 May 2018 09:21:35 GMT

Hi guys,

thanks to all. I got it working with the following configuration:

file: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/fileServers/default/default/custom.properties

content of the file: protocols.rootPath=/app:company_home/st:sites/cm:ftp-root/cm:documentLibrary

I've only one last question: in this way, the default root is still visible as "Alfresco"

So, basically, I've the user projected under the documentLibrary of the site ftp-root, but the user see this folder named as Alfresco.

Is possible to remove Alfresco at all? I tried with

protocols.rootPath=/st:sites/cm:ftp-root/cm:documentLibrary

but it doesn't work.

Any tips?

Thanks,

Antonio.

Re: Change FTP landing folder

afaust — Wed, 02 May 2018 14:16:27 GMT

The name of the root is defined by the filesystem.name property. Add that with a different value to your custom properties file and you should be fine..

Re: Change FTP landing folder

tonystra — Wed, 02 May 2018 15:50:09 GMT

Great!

It works as expected!

Thankyou very much for your help and patience.

Re: [SOLVED] Change FTP landing folder

mehe — Thu, 10 May 2018 12:40:50 GMT

...isn't WebDav and CIFS using the same root then? Didn't try it out

Re: [SOLVED] Change FTP landing folder

cesarista — Thu, 10 May 2018 13:01:33 GMT

For webdav you have this, instead:

system.webdav.rootPath=

Regards.

--C.

Re: [SOLVED] Change FTP landing folder

mehe — Thu, 10 May 2018 17:39:44 GMT

thanks Cesar 🙂

Re: [SOLVED] Change FTP landing folder

kintu_barot — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:31:58 GMT

Can you pls write the property which is working in your case?

Re: [SOLVED] Change FTP landing folder

tonystra — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:43:00 GMT

Hi Kintu,

in my case I've created the following file:

/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/fileServers/default/default/custom.properties

with the following content

filesystem.name=Repository
protocols.rootPath=/app:company_home/st:sites/cm:ftp-root/cm:documentLibrary

Where:

filesystem.name stands for the name of the folder i can find as root directory when connected via FTP client

and

protocols.rootPath is the the folder of the site where I want the users lands when connected via FTP

Hope it helps.