Installation Guide does not mention WCM

[edgar]

Hi,

I notice that the Alfresco 2.0 Installation Guide does not mention the Alfresco WCM at all. Are the installation steps for Alfresco WCM described anywhere (apart from the readme file in the WCM distribution)? It would be nice if you guys could add an extra paragraph about WCM to the Alfresco Installation Guide.

I noticed that before installing WCM on the Alfresco 2.0 Community Edition I first had to run Alfresco once. Else the WCM installation complained that it could not find an existing Alfresco installation. Things like this I would like to see included in the installation guide.

cheers,

Edgar

[steve]

Nope,

All you have to do to activate it is place the 'wcm-bootstrap-context.xml' into the extension directory and restart Alfresco.

Have you tried doing this?

Note - this is what the readme tells you to do.

To get virtualisation, you also have to start up the virtualisation server.

Steve

[jgoth]

It worked.  Thanks Steve.

[wfischer75]

Steve - -

Installing the WCM component is easy enough, but how do I get the virtualization server working? I chose to do the WAR install of Alfresco, not the Tomcat version.

I am running my Community install of Alfresco on Centos (Redhat). Tomcat on my machine is at:

/var/lib/tomcat5/

I see that virtual_alf.sh looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
# Start or stop Alfresco server
# Set the following to where Tomcat is installed
APPSERVER=/opt/alfresco/virtual-tomcat
# Set any default JVM values
#
if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
  "$APPSERVER"/bin/startup.sh
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
  "$APPSERVER"/bin/shutdown.sh
fi

——————————–

So what changes should I make to virtual_alf.sh and where should I put it?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[steve]

Hi,

Make sure you have the 'virtual-tomcat' files that are included in the WCM package.
This is a separate Tomcat instance configured to work alongside the already installed Tomcat on your machine to provide the virtualisation capabilities.

Steve

[wfischer75]

Steve thanks – I do have the virtual-tomcat directory as well, that includes the parallel tomcat instance.

My question is: where should i put this directory? Does it matter? What is the best command to use to start the virtualization server? Thanks.

[dorababup]

Hi,
I am new to Alfresco and Liferay. I am presently working on Alfresco WCM integration with Liferay. I deployed alfesco-enterprise-war-2.1.0, its a Enterprise Content Management war. Here i am getting Alfresco client portlet but i am not getting WebProjects option in the left navigation pane. How should i get this option to achive WCM in liferay using Alfesco. its very urgent. Plz help me.

[stanquinn]

Steve thanks – I do have the virtual-tomcat directory as well, that includes the parallel tomcat instance.

My question is: where should i put this directory? Does it matter? What is the best command to use to start the virtualization server? Thanks.

Can someone answer these questions?  They are pretty basic and the installation README for WCM doesn't work for the standard WAR install.  Getting Alfresco up and running wasn't too difficult once the database was setup (MySQL in my case) and tomcat was restarted on an open port (I'm running alfresco locally on my Windows Dev machine for now while I'm getting familiar with it).  You make the relevant configuration changes and drop it into the web-apps directory.  It unpacks and everything runs smoothly.  Now getting WCM to work is much less intuitive, especially since the directions boil down to "the wcm-bootstrap-context.xml file needs to be moved to the Alfresco extension directory".  Did that.  Restarted the tomcat server (why is it always trying to confuse me by saying restart the Alfresco server?) and nada.  There is no "Company Home".  There's only "My Home" and "My Alfresco" and under "My Home" there's a "Guest Home", while under the "My Alfresco" dashboard there's a number of useful links, but again, no "Company Home".  Note…the directory {tomcat home}/shared/classes/alfresco/extension didn't exist, so I created it and stuck that xml file in there.  Now even if this were to work, there's no mention of where to stick the virtualization server.  Alongside tomcat?  Inside tomcat in the expanded Alresco directory from the unpacked War?  Inside the webapps directory?  Note the options while not endless are are many and a pointer in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

[mikeh]

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Downloading_and_Installing_WCM

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