Installing Alfresco on RHEL5 with existing Tomcat and JDK

[madapaka]

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to install Alfresco on our RHEL5/Fedora box with an existing Tomcat binary 6.0.29, Sun JDK 1.6.0_21, and Ingres 9.3 using the WAR method, followed the instructions in the manual but I got confused/lost as I went along. I copied the alfresco.war and share.war file to my Tomcat directory i.e. /usr/src/tomcat/webapps and was able to see the share login page http://localhost:8080/share however http://localhost:8080/alfresco does not load i.e. "resource not available".

I've also installed or copied so to speak the alfresco-community-sample-extensions-3.3.tar.gz and alfresco-community-wcm-3.3.tar.gz respectively to /usr/src/tomcat/webapps/alfresco, and I've noticed that there's a virtual-tomcat directory, what does virtual-tomcat do? Does that mean there are going to be two instance of tomcat running?

Would someone care to enlighten me?

TIA

[mrogers]

Yes the V.S.  is a separate instance of Tomcat 5.5.   http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Virtualization_Server_FAQ

Have you configured your alfresco-global.properties and added your database connection details to it?

[madapaka]

So I have to install another instance of Tomcat and put alfresco in this instance? Is it okay to run two instances of Tomcat binary? I'm using the 6.0.29 binary.