tomcat/webapps folder doesn't have what it should

[rchapman]

I followed the Alfresco installation steps on the Wiki and came to an abrupt halt when it mentioned the WEB-INF folder under the tomcat/webapps folder.

Unless I'm totally missing something, the only thing I have in the webapps folder is alfresco.war and ROOT. This is causing problems in startup, as the errors keep telling me that it can't find files in tomcat/webapps/…/META-INF/

Is there something I missed in installation? Or is something really weird with my folder structure?

[loftux]

That looks like it is correct. The alfresco folder under webapps will appear once tomcat is started and the alfresco,.war is unpacked. So you have to start at least once for you to see this folder.

/Peter

[rchapman]

Well this is a funny little catch-22, as it won't actually start tomcat without errors complaining of the missing directories.

So to start… it needs the files and folders that it creates… after it starts?

[loftux]

Have you checked that the user used to start tomcat does have write access?

If you are using the startup script from the wiki, that user is alfresco.
If that is not the problem, error messages will help to figure out what is going on

Peter

[rchapman]

Hi Peter,

I'm running the alfresco startup with the sudo command, so I assume root has full write access.

The first error that comes up in the log is

SEVERE: Exception fixing docBase: {0}
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or directory)

Everything before that is just "initializations" so I assume everything else is going fine.

[sacco]

Yes, check that this has been done (it won't hurt to repeat the command):

chown -R alfresco:alfresco /var/lib/alfresco‍

[rchapman]

The /var/lib/alfresco directory is chowned properly to alfresco.

[rchapman]

I think I've got it. There were some OTHER permissions needing to be clarified, then I got my webapps folder fixed. Now I just need my sys admins to open a port or two, but I'm going. Alfresco away!

Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions.

~ Ross