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Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

ChrisAlker — Fri, 22 May 2020 10:11:11 GMT

Hi, I am running Alfresco community 6 in a docker container on Centos 7, I am trying to locate the global properties file to update it, of I search for the file I get multiple entries:

[root@localhost classes]# locate -br 'alfresco-global.properties'
/var/lib/docker/overlay2/868f002e6c845435de331c70b9db6a3988d8a3d34b207bf434bc53fdb532ae5a/merged/usr/local/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
/var/lib/docker/overlay2/868f002e6c845435de331c70b9db6a3988d8a3d34b207bf434bc53fdb532ae5a/merged/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/module/alfresco-share-services/alfresco-global.properties
/var/lib/docker/overlay2/8bad2bdb812c5cc9da89ee82fea3c7c02fed73f8c479935f2e2dbb34fb064281/diff/usr/local/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
/var/lib/docker/overlay2/a676c366f5218131b1f12a657da703738568c48c10b40844eaf70e21ba25e984/diff/usr/local/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
/var/lib/docker/overlay2/a676c366f5218131b1f12a657da703738568c48c10b40844eaf70e21ba25e984/diff/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/module/alfresco-share-services/alfresco-global.properties
/var/lib/docker/overlay2/bf6bbdb7a20ab4cf1c53bcdd2ed70624f5a3ab13d57ca1d69d503e44cb581610/diff/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/module/alfresco-share-services/alfresco-global.properties
/var/lib/docker/overlay2/c3dcb1a9b640ace9ed53cac0a7e1b9f1aa0662a2e90b988fb7b3a9b27273d169/diff/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/module/alfresco-share-services/alfresco-global.properties

Can anyone point me to the location of the properties file I want to be editing/updating?

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

kintu_barot — Fri, 22 May 2020 10:22:22 GMT

Correct path is

<ALF_HOME>/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

ChrisAlker — Fri, 22 May 2020 11:11:52 GMT

I cannot find the alfresco folder though, perhaps because it has been installed via a docker container?

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

kintu_barot — Fri, 22 May 2020 11:17:49 GMT

Yes due to docker there will not be an alfresco folder. You have to find it inside the container only.

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

ChrisAlker — Fri, 22 May 2020 11:22:02 GMT

That is where I find an issue, as you see in my original post, there are multiple global property locations, so for instance looking at:

[root@localhost classes]# vi /var/lib/docker/overlay2/868f002e6c845435de331c70b9db6a3988d8a3d34b207bf434bc53fdb532ae5a/merged/usr/local/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

This file does not contain any configuration whatsoever, it is just blank

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

kintu_barot — Fri, 22 May 2020 11:34:29 GMT

The proper way to do it in docker is to extend the docker image.

Please, find the following thread.

https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/alfresco-content-services-forum/where-is-the-alfresco-global-properties-file-located-in-6-0/td-p/22623

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

mire323 — Fri, 22 May 2020 15:54:36 GMT

Try the following:

1. execute 'docker ps'

It returns something like this:

Then copy CONTAINER ID of alfresco-content-services (the one in red rectangle) and execute:

2. 'docker exec -it <CONTAINER ID> bash'

That will put you in <ALF_HOME>/tomcat folder, and from there you just need to navigate to 'shared/classes', to do so execute:

3. 'cd shared/classes'

and there you will find alfresco-global.properties file.

Hope this helps

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

ChrisAlker — Fri, 22 May 2020 16:11:10 GMT

Thanks for the help, I had actually got this far and accessed the global.properties file, but it was empty which I wasn't expecting. I expected the file to contain some default properties that I could amend or add to. I added a certain setting to resolve a known problem I have had with a previous version (5.2) and it resolved the problem, just threw me with the file being empty.

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

mire323 — Sat, 23 May 2020 10:32:44 GMT

I'm glad it's solved!

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

arjunm1989 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:02:25 GMT

Hey Chris,

I am facing the same issue, where is the actual file located finally

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

EddieMay — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:57:10 GMT

Hi @arjunm1989

If you look at @mire323 answer, you can see that if you run the docker cmds they mentioned (starting with, "execute 'docker ps' "), this will give you the location of the file.

HTH

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

arjunm1989 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:23:43 GMT

Yes but that is empty.

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

ChrisAlker — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:42:29 GMT

This was the same issue I found, the file was entirely empty

Re: Finding the correct global properties file to update settings

abhinavmishra14 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:47:13 GMT

it will be empty and its expected by default. It would be empty unless you copy or update the global properties file during image build. All properties are set via java arguments like this, if you check your docker-compose file:

JAVA_OPTS: "
                -Ddb.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
                -Ddb.username=alfresco
                -Ddb.password=alfresco
                -Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql://postgres:5432/alfresco
                -Dsolr.host=solr6
                -Dsolr.port=8983
                -Dsolr.secureComms=none
                -Dsolr.base.url=/solr
                -Dindex.subsystem.name=solr6
                -Dshare.host=127.0.0.1
                -Dshare.port=8080
                -Dalfresco.host=localhost
                -Dalfresco.port=8080
                -Daos.baseUrlOverwrite=http://localhost:8080/alfresco/aos
                -Dmessaging.broker.url=\"failover:(nio://activemq:61616)?timeout=3000&jms.useCompression=true\"
                -Ddeployment.method=DOCKER_COMPOSE
                -DlocalTransform.core-aio.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dalfresco-pdf-renderer.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Djodconverter.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dimg.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dtika.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dtransform.misc.url=http://transform-core-aio:8090/
                -Dcsrf.filter.enabled=false
                -Xms1500m -Xmx1500m
                "

You can either put your properties as stated above, or create a global properties file and copy that to container image via DockerFile.

You need to update docker-compose.yml file for acs service to build from DockerFile:

alfresco:
        build:
          dockerfile: ./Dockerfile
          context: ./configs-to-override/alfresco
          args:
            ACS_TAG: ${ACS_TAG}
        mem_limit: 1500m
.....
.....

DockerFile will have following instructions:

ARG ACS_TAG

FROM alfresco/alfresco-content-repository-community:${ACS_TAG}

#Copy and override the alfresco-global.properties which comes with custom image. 
#It could be useful in cases when you already built a custom image but launch an container with some additional config in global properties.
COPY alfresco-global.properties $TOMCAT_DIR/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

You can find an example here for DockerFile: https://github.com/abhinavmishra14/change-acs-share-port-demo/blob/master/configs-to-override/alfresco/Dockerfile#L43

Service example: https://github.com/abhinavmishra14/change-acs-share-port-demo/blob/master/docker-compose.yml#L15