Newbie question - different ways of installing Alfresco

[rhiller]

Hi,

I played around with Alfresco for a while but always used the "full" download consisting of the Windows .exe file for installation. Now, with version 2.1, I cannot find such file on Sourceforge.

My question is: how does the alfresco-community-tomcat-*.zip download differ from the "full" download (it's only 1/3 of the size). What do I need to consider concerning the installation with the zip download. Is there any documentation available (all that I found was relating to the .exe file and modifiying configuration files afterwards). I used to run Alfresco with a MySQL database, for which I needed to modify the configuration files.

Will there be an *.exe file in the near future be available for download?

Your help on this matter is highly appreciated.

Kind regards,
Rainer

[rodchamusca]

I'm facing the same doubts here. I want to install the 2.1 version to make use of the Office add-in, but I simply don't know how to do it.

I've installed the 2.0 version at home through the .EXE you've mentioned and Alfresco works perfectly, although I'm not able to upgrade it. I've already tried the (dumb) procedure of extracting the alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0.zip contents to the existing directory and it just turns the system into a non-working state. Now I want to evaluate it at my company, but I'll probably need to browse through this forum to find the answer.

Again, any help on this matter is seriously and highly appreciated.

EDIT:
According to this reply by paulhh, the Alfresco team is working on a .EXE for the 2.1 version.

[rbense]

The Alfresco 2.1 Community WAR installation in Windows has two files you'll need to be aware of: imconvert.exe (which is available only in the full download that I'm aware of) and Win32NetBIOS.dll/Win32NetBIOSx64.dll which are located in the bin directory. The easiest way to get these into the system is to install them in \Windows\System32. Obviously only install the appropriate DLL for your system.

Other than those two files, the rest of the instructions on line work fine for installing the WAR into Tomcat or JBoss, although they may not be all in one place (I'm running it on JBoss 4.2 with Liferay 4.3.2, a slightly harder exercise)

[rodchamusca]

Thanks rbense, I'll check this out and post some comments here.