Installing Afresco on a host?

[melbenson]

I'm a newbie with Alfresco and I am a bit overwhelmed with the features, versions, and many downloads and components needed. I have successfully installed Alfresco Labs on Fedora 10 (via vmware). My question is: Is this application something that you can upload and install on a host/domain that you are paying for? Is it like Wordpress, Joomla, Moodle software where you can simply upload to your host and as long as they have the LAMP configuration it can work?

Second, (which may be answered with the above answer) is Alfresco an application that needs to be installed on each computer that is accessing it or is it totally web-based?


One more question,I went to localhost:8080/alfresco and /share after I installed Alfresco. I have not investigated them much yet but what is the difference between the two? Which one do you go to as the "main" page?

Thanks in advance!

[mrogers]

Alfresco is not a LAMP application - further discussion here -> http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=15409&p=50551&hilit=LAMP#p50551

Alfresco is purely server side software that does not require any client side software.

The two interfaces overlap to some extent, use whichever suits -> http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=16838&p=55326&hilit=share+explorer#p55326

[melbenson]

Oh, geesh there was a recent post asking the same question, sorry!

So it is possible to FTP it to a host but it needs Tomcat and/or a java app server like WebSphere. This would not be a production site, just testing it out. One last question, if I were to ask my host support (cirtex hosting) if they have the capabilities to install Alfresco what terminology/components would I ask if they had? Thank you!

[derek]

Hi,
You will need Tomcat and Java (ideally JDK1.6).  Apart from those, Alfresco can optionally use the following external components:

OpenOffice
ImageMagick
swf2pdf

You will need disk space and a MySQL database.
Regards