Installing Alfresco on Tomcat 5.5 / PostgreSQL existing serv

[ttortosa]

Hello,

I'm new in Alfresco.

I'm trying to install Alfresco on Debian 4.0., postgreSQL 8.2.6., tomcat 5.5 server. When I copy .war file into webapps tomcat directory and leave deploying, I can see all files but when I enter to server:8180/alfresco, tomcat tells that this resource is not available. The same occurs when I try to install it on Ubuntu 8.04.

I haven't found extra steps in installation guide in the zip file. All alfresco installation guides I've seen are for install alfresco + tomcat in /opt directory, and I don't know if I need to do more.

Thanks

[rudischmitz]

Some steps to get it running are

1. stop tomcat
2. copy war
3. start tomcat
4. add postgresql java connector
5. make changes to /var/lib/tomcat5/shared/classes files there are 3.
6. start tomcat.

I have a how to on Centos which might help you in your debian setup.

R Schmitz
http://solutionsfromanitgrunt.blogspot.com

[ttortosa]

Hello Rudi,

You're HowTo it's so great! Congratulations.

I've followed all your steps, but this instruction

"rebuild-jar-repository /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed postgresql-8.3-603.jdbc4.jar"

cannot run, i've installed jpackage from rpm installer because jpackage-utils aren't availables on Debian Repository. But rebuild-jar-repository is still not working.

I've not followed the steps for configure ssl https port because I want to try first into standard 8180 tomcat port.

Why is still showing 404 error status?

Thanks

[rudischmitz]

I'd do this at a console as root

find / -name rebuild-jar-repository

Then cd to that folder and run

"./rebuild-jar-repository /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed postgresql-8.3-603.jdbc4.jar"


It probably is not starting because it can't connect to the Postgresql database.

A trick to see if it connects to the postgresql database when starting tomcat is to open up pgadmin login and go to

Databases> click on Statistics tab on the right pane and look at the size of the alfresco database it should be larger than the template databases. Or it should grow when you successfully get alfresco to start. Mine is at 17MB