Install problems with Alfresco.war

[aadhikari]

I am a newbie to Alfresco. I already have Tomcat installed, so I am trying to intall Alfresco by alfresco.war file in the webapps subdirectory of Tomcat. I have already followed all the steps given in the readme except the configure database connections part, because it said the default should work for testing purposes.
When I go to http://localhost:8080/alfresco, I get the error "The requested resource (/alfresco) is not available."
What am I missing?

[kevinr]

You can download the Java1.5 JDK from here:
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp

Thanks,

Kevin

[kevinr]

If you are using the plain WAR file then you need to download the MySQL JDBC driver and follow the instructions in the README in the alfresco community WAR file download - it will explain how to quickly create the Alfresco database schema and where to put the MySQL JDBC driver JAR into TomCat.

Thanks,

Kevin

[kevinr]

But where to put the extensions folder?

Is /usr/share/tomcat-5.5/server/classes/ the right place?
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Yes so it will look something like:
/usr/share/tomcat-5.5/server/classes/alfresco/extension/…

[tarkadu]

Any news concerning this problem?

I'm also having hard times getting Alfresco running on an existing Tomcat 5.5 and SunJDK 1.5 environment (HTTP Status 404 - The requested resource (/alfresco/) is not available).
The Tomcat-logs definitely don't give me any useful information (they look pretty much the same as the ones the other users posted), even in debug-mode there's nothing one could relate directly to Alfresco, all I'm getting is more Tomcat-logs.
Tomcat is trying to run Alfresco in background which is where the error occurs according to the log but I can't identify which file it's actually trying to call up.

It would be very helpful if any of the developers could provide help on this.

Thanks!

[tarkadu]

Please don't leave me alone! Kevin, I know you're out there…

(Sorry for the bad behaviour, but this problem is causing me headaches.)