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A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

wclemo — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:32:47 GMT

I am looking for help on installing and configuring the ver 6.x ACS community edition manually. I don't want to use docker. I want to install manually via the distribution zip. All my installations attempts for various v6x versions have been unsuccessful, usually with Alfresco failing to start up su

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

angelborroy — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:01 GMT

Did you try this one?

https://docs.alfresco.com/community/concepts/install-community-intro.html

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

wclemo — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:43:16 GMT

I did try several times that but somehow could not make it work for me. It was failing during startup. Probably someone more experienced would make it work.

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

angelborroy — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:53:41 GMT

Also this guide can help you, it's still valid for Alfresco 6:

http://beecon.buzz/2017/assets/files/EF09/EF09-Installing-Alfresco-components-1-by-1.pdf

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

wclemo — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 12:54:56 GMT

Thanks for this link. This is very helpful and I am already trying it out and the results seem to be very encouraging so far.

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

cesarista — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 22:32:36 GMT

Hi:

An alternate installer may be this one --> GitHub - loftuxab/alfresco-ubuntu-install: Alfresco script based install for Ubuntu

Kind regards.

--C.

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

wclemo — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 06:24:00 GMT

Hi Capillas,

Thanks so much for this reference. Actually this is all I need. Everything is well scripted and documented withing the script. I only need to customize it slightly to my needs. (By the way the Github page says its updated to v6.0.7 but its actually 6.1.1...much better ! )

Regards,

Clemo

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

dadyodoo — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 13:30:23 GMT

Hello, if you managed to install alfresco 6.1 with the zip distribution, please share it with us because I could not do it after several attempts.

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

wclemo — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:47:10 GMT

Hi,

I finally managed to successfully install Alfresco 6 using the distribution zip. This particular script https://community.alfresco.com/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Floftuxab%2Falfresco-ubuntu-install referred to me by Cesar Capillas pretty much does almost everything to make for a successful install.

I tweaked few links to get what I wanted. For example I preferred using MariaDB and I had to modify the script to use it. I used Tomcat 8.5 instead of the 8.0 in the script. I made sure to stick with Java 8. My previous experiences with higher versions of these two (Tomcat 9 and Java 11) were unsuccessful and that's the reason I preferred to stick with lower versions.

It is worthy to note that the script is based on Alfresco version 6.1.1. This is what I started with, and once that worked, I then tried with the latest v6.1.2. Since the source links of the script do not have Alfresco v6.1.2, I had to download the distribution zip from Alfresco download site. After copying the the necessary war, amp and jar files to a folder from the extracted distribution zip I then modified the script to pull those files from there.

Alfresco 6.1.2 uses ActiveMQ for messaging. When testing the installation I initially disabled it use by adding the entry

messaging.subsystem.autoStart=false to the global properties file. When I confirmed the setup was working I then installed ActiveMQ and configured as necessary and it worked.

I was testing with Debian 9 "stretch" and I noticed from the catalina.out log file that ImageMagick was not loading, but when I then reinstalled it manually it got loaded. During debug I realised that the script's imagemagick entry was trying to install among other libraries libpng3. This apparently is not available in Debian repos and was causing the script to skip imagemagick installation. I disabled the libpng3 from the script.

Am so relieved that v6 distribution install finally worked as like you I had previously tried several times and I was just about to give up before getting useful links here. I am not familiar at all in Tomcat and/or related fields but I can assist you where possible to have your setup working.

Clemo

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

joseantonionava — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:54:49 GMT

Get done at first time.

Thank you.

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

Edgar-Amador — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:55:52 GMT

Buenos días Wclemo, estoy realizando el proceso de instalación pero tengo varias inquietudes, serias tan amable de ayudarme para finalizar esta instalación de Alfresco 6 Community, de ser asi y contar con tu ayuda, podrias confirmarme por un correo electronico a edgar.amador@friendsconsulting.net te agredeceria mucho, cordial saludo.

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

akash251998 — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 04:47:25 GMT

Can you please document the installation procedure as i am facing problem in installation I had tried multiple time but it is not working i am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Thanks and Regards

Akash

Re: A guide on Installing and configuring non-docker 201901GA (or any 6.x) ?

paula21 — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 22:08:58 GMT

Hi, how are you? Dear cpn the script link on github, i can't get it to work. Maybe it is for my linux is debian 10.4 ?. I pay you to help me do a zero installation with version 6.2, from now thank you very much and I hope you can help me or at least pass me the script that you edited and with which the installation worked for you. Thank you in advance for the prompt response. Atte: paula