Point alfresco content store to an existing dir during installation

[pashamv]

Hi,

Is there an option during alfresco installation (Community 5.0.d) to point to an existing location similar to overriding default DB configuration.

After the installation, I changed root.dir in alfresco-global.properties to point to AWS EBS volution, but start up is complaining about missing keystore. I can copy this dir from default /alf_data, but would prefer to achieve this goal during installation itself.

Thank you

[jpotts]

Using only the out-of-the-box installer, you can install, choose not to start Alfresco at the end, and then edit alfresco-global.properties.

Another option would be to use the "unattended installation" approach (see here) which you could call from a script, and then at the end of the script you could automatically patch alfresco-global.properties with the desired root directory location.

But why do that when there's already a community project that does that and more. Loftux maintains an install script which lets you specify the content directory beforehand and takes care of a number of other common installation tasks.