Preview Website

[dteca]

HI,
i installed Alfresco WCM. I want to see the preview of my web site. I create  a new web project, and after the finally step a choice tthe preview project and the link is : http://mysite.www--sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net:8180/
This link is wrong.

How do you see the preview of my site?
thank you

[ajmillar]

The way that Alfresco WCM works is by running a virtual server to provide virtualised views of the website. In order to do this, the default install uses the Alfresco DNS Servers to point back to your local install and the correct view.

If you are in the situation where you have a box where the relevant ports are open etc, then you should find that this works fairly well. However if you are working within a restricted environment then you'll find that your firewall settings are blocking the loopback.

I found the best thing to do was configure a local wildcard domain as described here http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_the_Virtualization_Server#Method_2:.C2.A0.C2.A0Configuring....

That then means that you are not dependant on external servers.

If you go for the first option of using Alfresco DNS servers then make sure that your virtualisation server is up and running. You should find  file called virtual_alf.sh (or virtual_alf.bat if you are on windows). Run that and then check the logs in virtual-tomcat/logs/catalina.out for errors. If there are no firewall issues you should find that everything works nicely.

Hope that is clear, get back to me if you need it explained further. I had the same problems in the early days of using Alfresco. More info also available using the link above for configuration.

[zaizi]

Another quick solution if you are working off your local machine and you want to preview only the staging or your own sand box is to edit your "/etc/hosts" or "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\lmhosts" file for the specific URL. In your example add a line like

127.0.0.1   mysite.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net‍

You will need to add this for each sandbox you want to preview. To get it work dynamically you'll have do either of the options in the previous post.

[dteca]

Thank you,
you were really help.
Finally I can see previews.
I am new in alfresco and I studying for a long time Alfresco ECMS and management of advanced workflow. Now  I want make the my_first_ website to make public my content, of course do this in alfresco. But how do I start from scratch? To make simple web pages to make useful my content?
thanks again

[anirelles]

have you done something special after modifying C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\lmhosts ?
because it didn't work for me
I'm doing the WCM tutorial and I modified the file like this :

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1   admin.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   alice.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   lee.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   mark.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   pat.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
::1             localhost

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[anirelles]

by the way, I modified C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\lmhosts.sam like this

127.0.0.1   admin.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   alice.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   lee.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   mark.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   pat.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
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and C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts like this :

127.0.0.1    localhost
127.0.0.1   admin.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   alice.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   lee.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   mark.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
127.0.0.1   pat.alfrescosample.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net
::1             localhost
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what is wrong please? I can make it work on linux by doing these modification on /etc/hosts why not on windows?

[anirelles]

nothing was wrong my problem was : http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4950&p=15517&hilit=ssifilter#p15517

some jar were renamed by alfresco for some unknown reason

[jasbirsingh120]

Hi there ,

I am facing a problem while deploying a Sample war file on Alfresco Application using the Bulk import functionality.
The war file is uplaoded successfully,a nd the files are submitted also  the message appears
but while looking for the Preview "page not found" is displayed and the message which appeared on the TOMCAT is as following.

Could some one please advice me on this .
INFO: temporarily removed webapp: /$-1$HelloUser–admin$ROOT
AVMWebappLoader absoluteClassesPath:  v:\HelloUser–admin\VERSION\v-1\DATA\www\
vm_webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classesAVMWebappLoader absoluteClassesPath not null, so no need to make copy
Dec 4, 2008 8:18:05 PM org.alfresco.catalina.host.AVMHostConfig updateVirtualWe
app
INFO: AVMHostConfig update version: -1 pathToWebapp: HelloUser–admin–preview:
www/avm_webapps/ROOT
Dec 4, 2008 8:18:05 PM org.alfresco.catalina.host.AVMHostConfig updateVirtualWe
app
INFO: temporarily removed webapp: /$-1$HelloUser–admin–preview$ROOT
AVMWebappLoader absoluteClassesPath:  v:\HelloUser–admin–preview\VERSION\v-1\
ATA\www\avm_webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes
AVMWebappLoader absoluteClassesPath not null, so no need to make copy Dec 4, 2008 8:19:02 PM org.alfresco.catalina.host.AVMHostConfig removeVirtualWe


Please let me know

[simon32]

Hello alfresco users,

I have the same problem with dteca, i get the same error message and i did the adding of the line 127.0.0.1 test.www–sandbox.127-0-0-1.ip.alfrescodemo.net at both hosts and ImHosts files but the results are the same. What i also noticed is that the virtual server will not start when i double click virtual_alf.bat(the cmd opens for a second and then closes). What am i doing wrong?

With regards
Simon

[stefx]

Hello everybody,
Have you changed the Alfresco's admin password?
if Yes,
Look the Last row of $VIRTUAL_TOMCAT_HOME/conf/alfresco-virtserver.properties file.

I solved changing value
alfresco.server.password=admin
to my new admin passsword

Cheers,
Stefx at crowdm.it