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How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

Gt180Full — Tue, 19 May 2020 17:34:27 GMT

After installing Alfresco docker-compose based on this procedure “https://github.com/Alfresco/acs-community-deployment/blob/master/docs/docker-compose-deployment.md”, I saw that the file had no volumes and the focus of this docker-compose was for testing and validation, however I intend to put it into production, so after a long and tiring research I found this method “https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-docker-installer”, which presented some problems in postgres, which for some reason did not have read permission on the “/ var / log / postgresql /” partition in the image itself, however managed to adjust this.

After installing Alfresco version 6.2, I tried to create a user, I searched the Wiki (https://docs.alfresco.com/6.2/concepts/alfresco-tutorial-21.html) how to do this procedure but it is always done for version 5. X in an interface of admission that does not have mine, in that I tried to know how to put that interface. And it seems that you have to install it, again it was the Wiki, this time I didn't find anything that could help me install it in Alfresco Community Docker Compose.

And with that I come here to ask for help from the community, to know how I create a user and install the share admin tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose.

Thank you!

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

EddieMay — Wed, 20 May 2020 13:23:58 GMT

Hi @Gt180Full,

Are you running on Windows? If so, on the alfresco-docker-installer there is the option to select Windows Host, which should take care of the vomunes permissions.

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

opsys — Wed, 20 May 2020 15:53:25 GMT

Hello

To create users in Alfreco Community, use the "admin tools" menu and then "Users and groups"

However there is a bug in v6.2 and you must do the following (for Linux) :

Connect via SSH to your server and use the terminal to enter these commands :

sudo cp /opt/alfresco/apache-tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/share-config.xml ./
sudo chmod 755 share-config.xml
nano share-config.xml
            ▪ search : [CTRL]-[W] show-auth
            ▪ replace : <show-authorization-status>true</show-authorization-status>
            ▪ with : <show-authorization-status>false</show-authorization-status>
            ▪ save : |CTRL]-[X] Y
sudo cp share-config.xml  /opt/alfresco/apache-tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/
sudo /opt/alfresco/ctlscript.sh restart

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

Gt180Full — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:29:56 GMT

Hello @EddieMay , thanks for the reply, I apologize for the lack of data, I ended up forgetting to put such information regarding the system.

I am performing the installation on a CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003, with 8 GB of RAM and 2 Cores.
The version of my Docker is 19.03.9, build 9d988398e7 and my Docker Compose is in version 1.25.5, build 8a1c60f6.

Regarding the permission problem, inside the docker-compose.yml I added the following line:

command: bash -c "chown -R postgres: postgres /var/log/postgresql/"

before calling the volume.

After releasing “docker-compose up -d” with this command I hope to finish the service is ready, execute “docker-compose down” and comment out the command in the docker-compose.yml file.

So the error disappears and Alfresco Community Edition in Docker Compose works normally.

However, I do not find within the "http://<my_host>/share" the option to create a user, as I found in the evaluation docker-compose.yml on the download page.

Thank you!

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

Gt180Full — Wed, 20 May 2020 20:12:19 GMT

Interface of the page “https://<my_host>/share/”

https://<my_host>/share/Interface of the page “https://<my_host>/alfresco”

https://<my_host>/alfresco

If I am looking, accessing the wrong page or missing another extra step that is not found in the procedure mentioned in the topic, please inform me, I believe that this is only missing so you can forward it to my client.

Thank you!

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

opsys — Thu, 21 May 2020 11:05:52 GMT

The video that you mentioned in your first post is still aplicable with version 6.2 for creating users.

After a fresh install the users can be created but they don't show up and thus cannot be modified. You must correct the bug as explained in my reply.

Maybe you just deployed Alfresco Content and not Alfresco Share. I suggest to start again and use the Bitnami.com installer. It's automatic and easy.

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

EddieMay — Thu, 21 May 2020 12:25:29 GMT

Hi @Gt180Full,

Your first image is of the ACA not the usual Share UI. Is it possible you have the nginx config mappings incorrect.

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

Gt180Full — Thu, 21 May 2020 16:22:54 GMT

Hello @EddieMay,

Thanks for the answer, it really is strange because I did the procedure as described in git, I am very lost, very much, could you explain what version of UI this is?

And please, how do I install the tool for production correctly? Unfortunately when I enter the Alfresco website and try to download it there are 2 methods, Docker, which is for evaluation, testing and the manual, that the documentation is not being very clear to me this installation method.

I don't want to be rude, but I am a beginner with regards to the versions and installations of Alfresco Community Edition, so if possible I could be more detailed with regard to installation and the procedures I should follow, as I created this topic to find a solution to my problem, however, if the problem is with the installation that I did, I would like guidance regarding this, I have been trying to install this tool for a long time and I am not having so much evolution. Alfresco's documentation makes me very confused, what I just wanted to do was install the tool for production.

Thank you.

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

Gt180Full — Thu, 21 May 2020 16:36:18 GMT

Hello @opsys,

Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at this installation method.

I will use this documentation https://docs.bitnami.com/installer/apps/alfresco/get-started/first-steps/, to do the installation.

And could you give me feedback regarding this installation method, if it is very easy to do maintenance, if the system is very stable, it is possible using this documentation mentioned above to put it into production, your experience in general so that I can evaluate and prepare if I use such a procedure.

Thank you!

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

DavidJM — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:28:05 GMT

Hi,

I also connot see users and am running 6.2 but i have installed in docker and do not have and /opt/alfresco/apache-tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/share-config.xml doesnt exisit.

Does anyone know how to find share-config in a docker install?

Thanks, David

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

arjunmony — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:00:39 GMT

Hi David,

I'm seeing the share-config.xml in the below path of share image.

/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco

Share-config.xml

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

DavidJM — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:08:42 GMT

Thanks for the reply Arjunmony, i must be looking in the wrong places, do you know are installs different? This is 6.2 in a docker, is yours?

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

sufo — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 23:13:15 GMT

DavidJM, check the setup prepared by @abhinavmishra14 where the share config is fixed: https://github.com/abhinavmishra14/change-acs-share-port-demo. You will get also support tools and jscript console installed as a bonus.

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

DavidJM — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:51:04 GMT

Thank you so much for your answer Sufo but i have to admin it is way beyond my capabilities! Untill Alfresco i hadnt used Docker at all, install and restart seems pretty easy, but as to configuration i havent a scooby!

I am pretty handy around a Linux box and was entirely happy with the XML fix that seems to be needed for this viewing users bug in 6.2 (and 7?). It may simply be easier if i downloaded a new build where it was fixed, does anyone know if one exists yet?

Looking at the extensive work on Abhinav Kumar Mishra's blog page it still referes to config files in /usr/local/tomcat but i simply dont have that install directory! Is it worth me starting again with a fresh default install?

Regards, David

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

arjunmony — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:30:33 GMT

Yes its better to start fresh from scratch. Looks like there were couple of folders missing in the directory so i'm wondering whether its installed properly or not. So please prune the volumes give a try from scratch and lets see.

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

DavidJM — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 20:51:56 GMT

OK, i am not sure wether Alfresco is deliberatly being instransigent or i am being a muppet!

After all the problems editing Alfresco in Docker i went back to basics. I installed a vanilla Mint 19.2, updated everything and ran the scripts https://github.com/loftuxab/alfresco-ubuntu-install and it worked, for about 30 minutes!!

Now i cannot loging using admin/admin and i only have a website at :8080/share not :8080/alfresco, the web is full of people in the same position, but i have spent most of today trying 'fixes' and litterally nothing works. Non exhaustivly i have tried; dropping an recreating MySQL DB's, changing to PostgreSQL, editing countless conf files, nothing works!!!!

I am usually a pretty reasonable admin, but i simply do not understand why this is so difficult?

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

DavidJM — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:28:48 GMT

OK, we have a further update. I created another brand new install on Ubuntu and exactly the same thing happened. It worked untill a reboot, following the reboot i get 404 on 8080\alfresco and incorrect password on 8080\share.

I cannot see much in the logs (attached) to throw light on the issue. I have tried various JAVA memory options from JAVA_OPTS="-Xms1G -Xmx2G -Xss1024k" to JAVA_OPTS="-Xms1G -Xmx6G -Xss1024k"

I have tried changing the default JRE from export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre to the default java and i get NOTE: Picked up JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS: --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport=ALL-UNNAMED
Unrecognized option: -d64

Does anyone have any idea what is happening here?

Re: How create users and enable Alfresco Share Admin Tools in Alfresco Community Docker Compose?

DavidJM — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:55:55 GMT

Sorry log files not attached, however i just noticed;

12-Apr-2021 17:50:25.817 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal ContainerBase.addChild: start:
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/alfresco]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:162)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:755)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:731)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:620)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1832)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to complete the scan for annotations for web application [/alfresco] due to a StackOverflowError. Possible root causes include a too low setting for -Xss and illegal cyclic inheritance dependencies. The class hierarchy being processed was [org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Boolean->org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERBoolean->org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Boolean]
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.checkHandlesTypes(ContextConfig.java:2098)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:2044)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsJar(ContextConfig.java:1989)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(ContextConfig.java:1959)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotations(ContextConfig.java:1913)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1156)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:773)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:307)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:95)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5262)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145)
... 10 more

12-Apr-2021 17:50:25.820 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Error deploying configuration descriptor /opt/alfresco/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/alfresco.xml
java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/alfresco]]
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:731)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:620)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1832)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)