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Installation of Alfresco Community 7.3 with Docker

Alexandra78 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:54:50 GMT

Hello Alfresco Community,

I am new to Alfresco and I am trying to install Alfresco with Docker Compose on Lubuntu, but I cannot get the user interface working.

Here is my current situation:

All containers are running (docker compose ps shows them up).
The port mapping is correct: 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp appears for the alfresco-alfresco-1 container.
I also allowed 8080 in my firewall.

When I open http://localhost:8080, instead of the login page I get this message:

Cannot find Alfresco Repository on this server. (Does this application have access to alfrescoglobal.properties?

Does this application have cross-context permissions?)

And when I try to access http://localhost:8080/share, I get a connection failed message:

Firefox ne peut établir une connexion avec le serveur à l’adresse localhost:8080

So, it seems that:

The repository container is up but maybe not fully accessible.
Alfresco Share cannot connect to the repository.

My questions:

Why is Share not connecting to the repository even though both containers are running?
Is there a configuration I need to adjust in docker-compose.yml (e.g., REPO_HOST, REPO_PORT) to make Share connect properly?
Could the issue be related to PostgreSQL/SOLR dependencies or container networking?
Is there a known working docker-compose.yml for Alfresco 7.3 Community that I should follow instead of patching mine?

Please if anyone has experienced this error and can assist me, I would really appreciate it.

@angelborroy

Thanks,

Re: Installation of Alfresco Community 7.3 with Docker

mikel_asla_tsystems — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:30:11 GMT

Hi there,

It's sounds like a docker networking issue to me but we can't help much there without looking at your compose file. Also, your should check/share your logs and see if all the services have started properly.

This compose file should work for you though, just change the image tags on every service to suit your needs but keep in mind that changing a component version affects related components versions too. As you'll notice, this compose file point to latest Community version (25.2) so if you don't have a strong reason to deploy 7.x, I'll advice you to just go with the referenced compose file as it is as an starting point. Otherwise you'll to need to check supported stacks for ACS 7.3 and adjust versions, but could be tricky

Re: Installation of Alfresco Community 7.3 with Docker

fedorow — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:22:08 GMT

Try to use https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-docker-installer/