Migrating existing Websites into Alfresco

[vinotth_jd]

Hello everyone,
      I am new to Alfresco and i am looking for your suggestion on migrating existing web sites(both Internet & Intranet) that has 80% static content (html, js, css and images) and 20% dynamic content (JSP/PHP/ASP). Please suggest the approaches available and the best one in your opinion. Thanks much!


Regards,
Vinotth Joseph D.

[jpotts]

If you are migrating an existing site into Alfresco, it probably means you are going to use Alfresco WCM to manage those files and push them out to another server's file system. As an aside, you may see references to the "AVM" which is the technical name for the repository implementation that Alfresco WCM sits on top of.

If that's the case, you'll create a new Web Project Site folder and import your site into that folder. If your site is in a ZIP or a WAR you can do a bulk import from within the Explorer client UI. Alfresco will unzip it into your Web Project and you'll get a folder structure that matches your site.

Alternatively, you can map a shared drive folder via CIFS to your web project folder and copy in the files from there.

Once that's done, you'll set up deployment targets that will move the files out to your file server and/or app server.

From there you can extend the implementation by converting some of your content to web forms, adding dynamic content that queries the repository, etc.

Hope that helps,

Jeff