How to manually install modules?

[theeye]

Hello Community!

I'm having troubles installing modules in Alfresco manually. I'm running Alfresco 4.2.c-1 on Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit). The problem is the same with different mdules, so I guess it's a general installation problem. I'll explain my steps during the installation of the Web Quick Start module:

1. downloaded the module (alfresco-community-wcmqs-4.2.c.zip)
2. unzip downloaded module
3. stop Alfresco server
4. move amp file into $ALF_HOME/apps/alfresco/amps
5. move amp file for share into $ALF_HOME/apps/alfresco/amps_share
6. run sh ./apply_amps.sh (it's located in $ALF_HOME/apps/alfresco/)
7. remove deployed packages/clear apache temp files with sh ./clean_tomcat.sh (it's located in $ALF_HOME/apps/alfresco/)
8. start Alfresco server

Now Alfresco Share and Alfresco Explorer aren't reachable anymore. I'm getting the following error:

HTTP Status 404 - /share
type Status report
message /share
description The requested resource is not available.
Apache Tomcat/7.0.34

What am I doing wrong? Looking forward to your help!

Regards

[bisana]

there is a file named as catalina.out in …./tomcat/logs directory
You can check there, messages wil be coming there on what had happened to the system

[theeye]

Thanks for your fast reply!

It looks like the script has no permission to edit the alfresco.war and share.war files. I restored them earlier and I think the restored files don't have the permissions set like ethey had originally. That's the first problem with this installation (maybe there is more - like I said - I restored the backups earlier). Could someone please tell me the permissions for these two files so I can adjust them and try again? Right now they are:

owner = read & write

group = /

other = /

The automatic backup files have the following permissions:

owner = read & write

group = read

other = read

Regards

[bisana]

*.war files gets expanded or restored or deployed  when the application server is started.
In your case the application server is tomcat, when u start alfresco tomcat start and it takes the *.war files, you dont need to do anything for
As advised earlier did you check what is happening in your log file, ie catalina.out
Please post your contents in catalina.out [ post the error part only]

Note:- If my posting was usefull for you, please rate me. It encourages me

[theeye]

Hey!

Okay, I got the log file from yesterday. And now I'm confused. Yesterday I found stuff like permission denied for share.war - that's why I asked for the permission settings. Now I can't find it anymore?!  :shock:

This is the link to the log file: http://web422.server-drome.com/data/alfresco.log.2013-01-17.txt

Sorry, I wanted to point out the part that encouraged me to look into the permissions…  :cry:

Does this help anyway? This huge log file is kind of confusing to me…  :roll:
I'm really sorry for the trouble and looking forward to your help! 

Regards

[theeye]

Surprisingly it works much better with the right log file…  ops:

Log file from yesterday:http://web422.server-drome.com/data/catalina.2013-01-17.log
Log file from today:http://web422.server-drome.com/data/catalina.2013-01-17.log

The log entry from yesterday, which I tried to find in the previous post:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/bitnami/apache-tomcat/webapps/share.war (Permission denied)

And today I tried the installation again. The apply_amps script applied the already existing google docs amp inside the amps folder but ignored the amp for the Web Quick Start?! What's happening there?

Regards

[bisana]

Which OS are u using
If you are using LINUX, see the directory permission. are u running it with an another user than the user which copied the file
Please check

[theeye]

Hey!

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit). I hope it's an ownership/permission-problem. The strange thing is, that the accepted googledocs amp-file has the same permissions and the same owner as the Web Quick Start amp.
I made a PDF to show the exact permissions and ownerships. I hope it helps! Here is the download link: http://web422.server-drome.com/data/server_permissions.pdf

Regards

edit: user bitnami belongs to group bitnami
edit2: So in my oppinion it should work if I run the apply_amps script with the bitnami user, because I have the needed permissions (for read and write) or am I wrong? =/

[theeye]

Hey!

Glad to see the forum up and running again!

I have some news: The installation worked! I'm not sure what the exact problem was in the end.
I changed the permissions for the amp files to 755 and used the apply_amps.sh as sudo.

Now I'm having troubles with linking the quick web start site correctly (the host configuration doesn't work like I think it should). But I'll open a new thread for that issue to make it easier to follow.

Thanks a lot!

Regards