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Internet requirement for running Alfresco

nadeaumr — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 19:27:13 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for CMS solution and ACS 6 is one of them. One criteria is no internet access to our server, so i'm wandering if it is mandatory for Alfresco. Did Alfresco need internet to run properly? I didn't found anything on this.

Regards

Marc

Re: Internet requirement for running Alfresco

apiening — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 20:22:28 GMT

As far as I know, there is no need for Alfresco to have public internet access to be used as a DMS. Of course you can't use public sharing functionality then.

I have installed Alfresco 6.1 locally on a mobile dev machine based on docker-compose (see https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-docker-installer) and I can start Alfresco and use it locally just fine without any issues while the system is not connected to the internet.

If you want to play around with it I would suggest you fire up a local install based on docker-compose on your local machine or in a VM, because you can get your instance running pretty effortless and quick.

Re: Internet requirement for running Alfresco

fedorow — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 16:00:28 GMT

Some practical tips.

Customisation requaired build your own docker imagers. Obviesly it requaired to build images on one server with internet and move it on offline server.

I made medium solution. My server is online, but to be undependent from internet I build customisable images out of docker-compose and push it on my intranet docker repository. Docker-compose takes redy images from internal repository, so production server could be restarted without accesing to internet.

Re: Internet requirement for running Alfresco

nadeaumr — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:47:43 GMT

Thank you all.

Your solution with docker-compose seems very interesting. But i'm looking to install it with the zip file. From what i understand, it looks like it will also work fine without an internet access. Including with a cluster of 2 machines. Am i right?

Regards,

Re: Internet requirement for running Alfresco

fedorow — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:06:11 GMT

I do not remamber any requariments for on-premise system to have internet access.

But cluster means commercial version, so for you beter clarify the question with Alfresco sales representative.

Re: Internet requirement for running Alfresco

jpotts — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:59:13 GMT

Neither Community Edition nor Enterprise Edition requires access to the public internet.

And neither one requires Docker. You can definitely install 6.x manually without Docker and without internet.