Installation issues

[dyladan]

I installed the 64 bit linux version on a Digital Ocean VPS using the text only installer and all defaults. After checking alfresco.sh status to make sure the services were running browsing to port 8080 said connection refused. I then changed the properties.ini tomcat_domainname to my public ip from the default 127.0.0.1 and restarted the server again. Now when I try to browse to my alfresco server on port 8080 I am still not having any luck. Is there anything I've missed in the installation that should be obvious?

[mrogers]

Have you got any errors in your log files.


And what is properties.ini?  that's not an alfresco configuration file.

[dyladan]

I can't see any obvious errors in the log files. Any particular log i should be looking in or error I should be looking for? The properties.ini file was in the directory created by alfresco installer. Here is the contents of my properties.ini

[General]
installdir=/home/danny/alfresco-4.2.f
base_stack_name=Alfresco Community
base_stack_version=4.2.f
base_stack_platform=linux-x64
base_stack_service=
[Java]
java_home_directory=/home/danny/alfresco-4.2.f/java
[Postgres]
postgres_hostname=localhost
postgres_port=5432
postgres_root_directory=/home/danny/alfresco-4.2.f/postgresql
postgres_binary_directory=/home/danny/alfresco-4.2.f/postgresql/bin
[Tomcat]
tomcat_server_port=8080
tomcat_server_ssl_port=8443
tomcat_server_shutdown_port=8005
tomcat_server_ajp_port=8009
tomcat_root_directory=/home/danny/alfresco-4.2.f/tomcat
tomcat_domainname=127.0.0.1
tomcat_configuration_directory=/home/danny/alfresco-4.2.f/tomcat/conf
tomcat_group=***unknown variable tomcat_group***
tomcat_user=***unknown variable tomcat_user***‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Here is the directory listing for the folder alfresco created

alfresco.log
solr.log
postgresql
properties.ini
alf_data
uninstall
uninstall.dat
libreoffice
manager-linux-x64.run
alfresco.sh
scripts
README.txt
alfresco.ico
common
amps_share
amps
bin
licenses
tomcat
java
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[mrogers]

no probs there.     does your alfresco.log file show successful startup?

[kaynezhang]

Also check files under /home/danny/alfresco-4.2.f/tomcat/logs

[dyladan]

I figured out what the issue was. My droplet was running out of memory.

[mesqualito]

It's a good question: does the properties.ini replace the alfresco-global.properties?

We had an old installation of alfresco-community Version 4.2f, "the hard way" - means: without an alfresco-community-installer-201702-linux-x64.bin. Postgresql 9.3 and tomcat were installed manually and then - as far as I can remember - we deployed war-files, merged "plugins" and so on.

Times have passed, the virtual system (debian x64) was shut down after exporting all of the data back to ugly windows file-server, because we moved into a remote-network, another big fail.

Now I tried to move the data, the database (from 9.3 to 9.6) and the ldap-configuration from 2015 to the new alfresco-community-201702. As far as I can remember solr wasn't running in the old system, there is an "index.subsystem.name=lucene".

Perhaps, even ldap isn't needed anymore, because in the old alfresco-global.properties, I found some newer "passthru.authentication.authenticateCIFS=true" (etc.) lines, including "passthru.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames=[...]" instead of all the ldap-stuff in "[tomcat]/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/".

The "Admin"-Account with the "Alfresco Content Services-Administratorkonto Passwort:" isn't valid anymore, I did already a restore of the database.

Where can I put my Authentication configuration now? And how?