Many of us have had the dreaded 404 error on install -
"The requested resource (/Alfresco) is not available"
that is, the service /alfresco/ doesn't seem to run properly in tomcat.
My environment is a Virtual (VMWARE) Windows 2003 Enterprise R2 Server. I had installed Alfresco initially, where it worked fine. A couple of days later, I began to get the dreaded 404 error - and to be honest, I'm still no clearer as to why this happened - multiple installs later and it still doesn't work.
Today, accidentally, I ran a stored URL in my browsers history and while http://<server>:8080/Alfresco didn't work. The url I went to was
http://<server>:8080/Alfresco/faces/jsp/login.jsp - suddenly alfresco begins to work. I get a colleague on a different machine to visit http://<server>:8080/Alfresco - again, it works!
It seems that actually visiting /faces/jsp/login.jsp somehow 'initiates' the alfresco package.
BUT - yes, always a but - 5 minutes later, go back to http://<server>:8080/Alfresco/ - again, the 404 error, but go to the /faces/jsp/login.jsp url again and suddenly alfresco fires back up again! For now I may just run a scheduled task on the server to fire up IE and close it every 5 minutes, visiting that webpage. Just to keep Alfresco ticking over.
To say I am confused is an understatement. Can anyone shed any light on this problem or has anyone else had any success with this error?
