How to redirect the homepage of alfresco?

[minhhacker]

Hi all,
I have a question about the way to redirect page in alfresco. I want my users when access alfresco page by http://mysite:8080 will be redirect to http://mysite:8080/alfresco. Does anyone know how to do that?

Many thanks for your support!

Regards,
Minh.Tran

[mikeh]

Although it's not really recommended, the easiest way is to rename alfresco.war to ROOT.war.

The better way is to front Tomcat with an Apache web server - then your users can access it at http://mysite

Thanks,
Mike

[minhhacker]

Hi Mike,
Actually i can use iptables to redirect 8080 port to 80 port, and i can go http://mysite/alfresco instead of http://mysite:8080/alfresco. But my case is: when i type http://mysite, it will redirect automatic to http://mysite/alfresco. can you show me in detail how to do that? I'm so sorry because i just a newbie in alfresco.

Thanks for you support!

Regards,
Minh.Tran

[mikeh]

Did you rename the .war file?

Mike

[minhhacker]

Hi Mike,
After rename alfresco.war to ROOT.war, my alfresco can not run anymore. Here's my log file:

Feb 7, 2009 12:31:10 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Feb 7, 2009 12:31:10 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1658 ms
Feb 7, 2009 12:31:10 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Feb 7, 2009 12:31:10 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.18
Feb 7, 2009 12:31:10 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive ROOT.war
Feb 7, 2009 12:31:23 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext addApplicationListener
INFO: The listener "org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener" is already configured for this context. The duplicate definition has been ignored.
12:32:01,633  INFO  [config.xml.XMLConfigService$PropertyConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/file-servers.properties]
12:32:22,040  INFO  [domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect.
12:32:22,857  INFO  [domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No changes were made to the schema.
12:32:27,928 Userystem INFO  [repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: /opt/data/alfresco
12:32:28,019 Userystem INFO  [admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Checking for patches to apply …
12:32:28,321 Userystem INFO  [admin.patch.PatchExecuter] No patches were required.
12:32:28,325 Userystem INFO  [repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Found 0 module(s).
12:32:28,456 Userystem ERROR [alfresco.smb.protocol] Failed to get local domain/workgroup name, using default of WORKGROUP
12:32:28,456 Userystem ERROR [alfresco.smb.protocol] (This may be due to firewall settings or incorrect <broadcast> setting)
12:32:28,848 Userystem INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - v1.5.0_16-b02; maximum heap size 1012.625MB
12:32:28,849 Userystem INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Labs): Current version 3.0.0 (Stable 1526) schema 1002 - Installed version 3.0.0 (c 1342) schema 1000
Feb 7, 2009 12:32:47 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive share.war
12:32:53,286  INFO  [web.site.FrameworkHelper] Successfully Initialized Web Framework
Feb 7, 2009 12:32:57 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext addApplicationListener
INFO: The listener "org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener" is already configured for this context. The duplicate definition has been ignored.
12:33:24,685  INFO  [config.xml.XMLConfigService$PropertyConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/file-servers.properties]
log4j:WARN Ignoring attempt to add an existent listener.
12:33:41,800  INFO  [domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect.
12:33:42,616  INFO  [domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No changes were made to the schema.
12:33:47,269 Userystem INFO  [repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: /opt/data/alfresco
12:33:47,382 Userystem INFO  [admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Checking for patches to apply …
12:33:47,719 Userystem INFO  [admin.patch.PatchExecuter] No patches were required.
12:33:47,723 Userystem INFO  [repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Found 0 module(s).
12:33:48,173 Userystem INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - v1.5.0_16-b02; maximum heap size 1012.625MB
12:33:48,174 Userystem INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Labs): Current version 3.0.0 (Stable 1526) schema 1002 - Installed version 3.0.0 (c 1342) schema 1000
Feb 7, 2009 12:34:02 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Feb 7, 2009 12:34:02 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/alfresco] startup failed due to previous errors
12:34:12,486  ERROR [repo.shutdown.ShutdownBackstop] Alfresco terminating via Shutdown Backstop
12:34:12,489  ERROR [repo.shutdown.ShutdownBackstop] Alfresco terminated

[mikeh]

You can only have the ROOT webapp, or the Alfresco one… but not both.

Mike

[minhhacker]

Hi Mike,
Sorry to disturb again, because i have changed alfresco.war to ROOT.war, after that, i remove alfresco/ folder. But alfresco still start with errors, i check in webapps folder, and i see ROOT/ folder appear. Here's my folder structure in webapps:

root@alfresco:/opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps# ls -l
total 84132
drwxr-xr-x 11 alfresco alfresco     4096 2009-02-04 18:36 docs
drwxr-xr-x  5 alfresco alfresco     4096 2009-02-04 18:36 examples
drwxr-xr-x  5 alfresco alfresco     4096 2009-02-04 18:36 host-manager
drwxr-xr-x  5 alfresco alfresco     4096 2009-02-04 18:36 manager
drwxr-xr-x 12 alfresco alfresco     4096 2009-02-07 21:51 ROOT
-rw-r–r–  1 alfresco alfresco 70558753 2009-01-19 20:32 ROOT.war
drwxr-xr-x 13 alfresco alfresco     4096 2009-02-04 18:44 share
-rw-r–r–  1 alfresco alfresco 15464936 2009-01-19 20:32 share.war

Regards,
Minh.Tran

[mikeh]

Check you've cleared out the Tomcat work and temp folders.

Also make sure it's the same error you're seeing.

Mike