Trying to upload a file to my space - get 404 error?

[lchalupa]

In my home space I am trying to "add content" where I select a file on my local machine and then hit the "upload" button.  A 404 is displayed. The following is the url that appeared in the browser:

http://seelink.org/alfresco/uploadFileServlet

I'm running on linux / tomcat


Any idea how to diagnose why this is not happening?

Thanks

Lee

[steve]

Hello,

We have seen this occur if you are blocking cookies for that machine.
Can you re-enable cookies and try again?

Thanks,

Steve

[lchalupa]

I have enabled all cooking on the browser. I restarted the browser and there is no change.

What next?

lee

[lchalupa]

Actually I don't cook but I did enable the cookies.       

[steve]

Hi,

Are you running IE or Firefox as your browser?

Steve

[lchalupa]

I have tried both and the result is the same.

lee

[steve]

Hi,

Can you check that you have cookies from the machine that Alfresco is hosted on?
If you have cookies from the machine, can you delete them.
If you don't have cookies, can you ensure that you accept them.

Once you have done that, can you try the action again - and check that you do have a new cookie from the alfresco machine.

Thanks,

Steve

[lchalupa]

Problem solved.

It was an apache webserver / tomcat configuration issue most likely.

What threw me from pursuing this trail was that the site would work perfectly if I use the firefox browser. It would render correctly and allow the users to upload files. On the other hand, in IE 6.0 the upload function would not work and all images would not render.

I checked for cookies in both browsers and could not find any.

The fix was to try  the new auto-config feature between apache server and tomcat. I think this was introduced for Tomcat 5. You basically tell apache where to look for the modjk file, put a listener in the server.xml file in tomcat, and when tomcat starts it will build the modjk configuration file.  And presto, everything works.

Thanks for your help.

lee