How to Make Alfresco Start Automatically

[joel18]

Hello everyone,
 
    Now I have a problem about Alfresco. After I have installed Alfresco successfully, I can start it by running start.bat file manually.
    However I want to make Alfresco start automatically as long as I start the server machine.
   Would you like to tell me how to solve this problem? Thank you very much.


Your Sincerely.   😎

[pmonks]

It depends on your operating system, but it sounds like you're using Windows so you'll need to configure Tomcat (and the virtualisation server, if you're using Alfresco WCM) to run as a Windows Service.  This process is described at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/windows-service-howto.html, but make sure that you preserve Alfresco's startup parameters (JVM heap size in particular)

Cheers,
Peter

[nalinperera]

I have installed Alfresco in a Windows XP computer. Once the Alfresco is started from the BAT file, it works well. Even the Other computers on the LAN can access it. Then I configured the Windows Service as given in http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_Alfresco_as_a_Windows_Service.

The Service Starts without any problem, and the Alfresco works within the Local computer. The problem is, when it's started from the Service, the remote computers in the LAN cannot connect to Alfresco (They even cannot see the Tomat main page).

So when it's started from the BAT file, remote computers can access, and when started from the Service, the remote computers cannot access it (but works well within the local host).

What could be the possible course for this?

Cheers,
Nalin 

[steve]

Hi,

What app server are you using?

Steve

[nalinperera]

Tomcat 5.5, which came with "AlfrescoCommunity-2.9.0B-Setup.exe"
Running on Windows XP Prof.

[steve]

Hi,

Do you have any form of firewall on the machine that might be blocking network access?
There should be no difference as far as tomcat is concerned between running it directly or as a service.

Steve

[nalinperera]

Hi,

I did the installation on a Windows 2003. And configured the service as http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_Alfresco_as_a_Windows_Service

It's working fine. All the computers in the LAN can access alfresco.

So I doubt there's the issue with the Windows XP ?

Thank you,