Pulling files from Alfresco to the Apache web server

[guhann]

hi,

i have mounted the CIFS and all the contents in the alfresco or getting displayed in an unused drive(z). Through this i can able to modify/ share the files.

But my question is how to map the alfresco files to a specific folder location that is to my apache webserver in the location
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\…..

so that i can access the files from my apache web server.

Thanks for helping me in this.

Regards,
Guhan N

[guhann]

Basically my question is i can able to access the cds pages from the sandbox url only? If so how i can change the url accroding to my desire….
or we are in a need to move the contents to some other webservers/app servers?

if i can able to access the file from a url like this http://localhost:8080/demo/index.jsp then only i can able to point the dns name to this particular url, right? How i can achive this….

Basically the production url needs to be proper i don't want sandbox in that.

Thanks a lot for clarrifying this basic doubt.

Regards,
Guhan N

[jcox]

Guhan,

If you want to serve files from CIFS via Apache,
then the virtualization server isn't involved at all.
Just make the docroot of apache point to the
right place in CIFS. 

Another possibility is to use Alfresco's deployment
feature to deploy files from your development site
to your live customer-facing site.   This will give
you a nice decoupling of resources, so if you
need to fiddle with your dev site, the live side
stays up.   Also you get independence in terms
of CPU usage, memory, security, etc.

Which way you decide to go on this depends on
the size & activity of your site,  your budget, etc.
Machines are pretty cheap, so usually the best
way to go is via a deployment to a totally separate
"live server" box.   That's what I'd recommend as
a best practice.

  Cheers,
  -Jon

[guhann]

Is that alfresco's deployment feature available in alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0R1 version?

Can u please give me a brief idea about this deployment feature? I guess that we need to specify the production system ip address and the files will be transferred to the production system. In the production system to access these files we will be running tomcat/apache and build live url according to our wish. Is that correct?

Basically if i update a staticontent/web form immediately it should get reflected in the live site.

[britt]

Hi,

First check the wiki documentation for http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Deployment.  The installable distribution will contain an alfresco-deployment.zip file in the wcm extras. Unzip and take a look at the readme.txt file which will explain a very basic setup. If you have difficulties, call support if you have a contract, or post here and we'll see what we can do to help.

Is that alfresco's deployment feature available in alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0R1 version?

The alfresco->alfresco deployment is in, but alfresco->filesystem isn't but will be in Community Final.

Can u please give me a brief idea about this deployment feature? I guess that we need to specify the production system ip address and the files will be transferred to the production system. In the production system to access these files we will be running tomcat/apache and build live url according to our wish. Is that correct?

That's about it. Details can be found in the wiki as above. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "build live url according to our wish".  What gets deployed is no more and no less than what was in the originating alfresco server. If you could be a little more specific about what you'd like to do we can tell you if you can. (Most likely the answer is yes, but custom programming may be involved.)

Basically if i update a staticontent/web form immediately it should get reflected in the live site.

No, that is not the case. Deployment is always explicit. However with custom workflows various approximations to what you'd like are possible. I would recommend strongly against a policy of immediate deployment of every change. It rather defeats the purpose of content management, i.e. to know before you push something live if your changes are correct.

Cheers

[guhann]

In production system im going to use cms & cds in a single box. In that case deployment is required? because if i simply submit then automatically it is getting reflected in the avm repository

if anyone globally access the cms production url and update the webforms immediately it will be displayed in the avm repository of that same machine.

In production(hosting) machine managed by some service providers…is that possible to map using CIFS??