Documentation for Ubuntu Edgy?

[copymaster]

PLEASE help!

Is there someone out there who could tell me how to install alfresco 1.4 on ubuntu edgy?

I googled and tried now for 7 days, but it doesn't work as expected!

The startup scripts don't do. The only way to get alfresco running is to comment out all JAVA entries in the startup scripts. I have java 1.5 update 8.

And even the Openoffice startscript throws an error on startup, so openoffice is not running as a service.

When i edit the start_oo.sh script to use my distributions openoffice, i can't open the documents from the webfrontend, within the openoffice-writer, there's always shown the alfresco loginscreen instead of the requested document?



PLEASE provide some hint for getting it running.

I installed apache2 and java, then the alfresco binary as root. I try to start alfresco as root, but there are errors in the catalina.log complaining about tomcat is not able to load some modules because of permission denied?

[heckle]

I have had little success trying to get this working on Ubuntu. This project is in DESPERATE need of documention. If I ever get it working, perhaps I will give it a shot.

[kgeis]

It probably doesn't work on Ubuntu because Ubuntu's Tomcat distribution, unlike most, is installed with a sane security configuration.  You can turn off security by setting

TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no

in the Tomcat startup script (/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 for Tomcat 5.5.)  Another option is to set up a policy for Alfresco in /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d that gives Alfresco extra permissions above the standard webapp, but I don't have experience with that.  There's some documentation inside 99examples.policy.

[heckle]

Hey Copymaster, I hope your still around. I wrote a long list of findings about alfresco on edgy in the following thread.

http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=5361&highlight=ubuntu

I don't know that it will solve all your problems, but it might help.