Installation Troubles

[jochen]

Hello

This is my first attempt to install Alfresco. I havn't found any installation manual. Isn't there one?

Anyway, I've installed Oracle 10g XE, Java 5 (1.5.0_06) and Tomcat 5.0.27. All seem to work properly. Oracle APEX runs on port 8080, Tomcat on 9090.

When I fire up the install script of Alfresco, it tells me that it cannot bind to Tomcat:

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Please enter the port for your Tomcat HTTP server.

Tomcat HTTP Port [8080]: 9090

Warning: Unable to bind to the given port number. Please select another one.
Press [Enter] to continue :

Tomcat responds when I type in http://[hostname]:9090

Thanks in advance for your help!

Regards,
Jochen

[flafeer]

It sounds like maybe you are using one of the community edition installer packages (either for linux or windows)?

Those packages include everything you need to run, including tomcat. So it looks like it is trying to install a new tomcat instance and bind to port 9090, which in your case is already in use by your other tomcat instance.

If you really wanted to install Alfresco in an existing tomcat instance you can use the war file distribution (or build from source).

Otherwise, if you installed tomcat just for this, you didn't need to do that. So you can just shut that one down and proceed with the one in the alfresco package.

Also, I think if you are using the community edition installer it includes mysql as well. If you want to use Oracle, you'll want to use the alfresco tomcat or jboss bundle (which include the appserver but not mysql) or use the war file or source bundles which include neither the appserver nor mysql.

You'll also want to check the wiki for further notes on using databases other than mysql. (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Database_Configuration). You'll need to do some minor configuration to use Oracle.

Hope this helps.

- Firoze