Unable to login

[dserodio]

I downloaded Alfresco's WAR, ran db_sqtup.sql against our MySQL server (same host as Tomcat), and deployed the WAR via Tomcat Manager, but I'm unable to login.
I tried admin/admin, but I get a Unable to login - unknown username/password error.
The only authentication-related message in alfresco.log is

WARN  [app.servlet.AuthenticationHelper] Unable to login as Guest: Access Denied. You do not have the appropriate permissions to perform this operation.‍‍

.

[greg]

I also have tried the default admin/admin in the web client and receive the error:

19:41:20,406 WARN  [app.servlet.AuthenticationHelper] Unable to login as Guest: Access Denied. You do not have the appropriate permissions to perform this operation.

in the catalina.out. The install is completely fresh, Ubuntu/Debian with Alfresco 1.2/Tomcat. I had a 1.12 Alfresco install with exactly the same platform and setup which worked fine. Since I did not have anything worth keeping I refrormatted and installed fresh but now have the inability to login.

[derek]

Hi, (also answering http://www.alfresco.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4448#4448)

Apart from the database being cleaned out, were there any existing indexes or content stores lurking around?
Did you point the dir.root location to a fixed location?

The system expects the database and indexes to by synchronized.  If one or the other is out of synch, then these types of symptoms tend to appear.

Regards

[dserodio]

Following your suggestion, I removed all alf_data directories on my server, dropped and re-created Alfresco's DB. Now I can login as guest.

But, following http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Repository_Configuration,  I had created a TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-services-context.xml file, containing:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>

<beans>

    <!– import further configurations –>
    <import resource="file:/etc/alfresco/more-config.xml" />

</beans>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Then, I created a /etc/alfresco/more-config.xml exactly like the one in the document above linked.

I created a TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/alfresco/repository.properties, with dir.root=/var/lib/alfresco, but Alfresco created an alf_data directory under TOMCAT_HOME/logs/!!!

What is wrong with this setup? Thanks!

[dserodio]

Damn! I spoke too soon… I was able to login as guest, but as soon as I tried to login as admin I got the ClassNotFoundException: cryptix.jce.provider.md.MD4 problem mentioned here: http://www.alfresco.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1159

After restarting Tomcat, I can no longer login as neither admin nor guest.

[derek]

The configuration itself looks fine.  In fact, Spring would complain if any of the files could not be found, with the exception of the custom-services-context.xml.  Check the permissions on that file and could you confirm that the application classloader is NOT seeing that file by modifying the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/application-context.xml as follows:

Change

<import resource="classpath*:alfresco/extension/*-context.xml" />‍

to

<import resource="classpath:alfresco/extension/custom-services-context.xml" />‍

This is just a test to see where the classloader is going wrong.  If Spring doesn't complain about the file being missing when you start the server, then change the custom-services-context.xml to be invalid XML.  If that doesn't fail, change to

<import resource="file:(yourpath)/alfresco/extension/custom-services-context.xml" />‍

You might also do a search for a similarly named file elsewhere on the classpath.  Spring will not load the same named file twice.

Regards

[derek]

You can't login because the indexes are not where they should be.  It is down to the configuration, I am afraid.  Try to get the Spring failures as described above, and we can go on from there.

[dserodio]

Thank you for your time.

I tried your first suggestion and nothing changed. So I changed custom-services-context.xml to be invalid XML, and Spring complained:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 10 in XML document from class path resource [alfresco/extension/custom-services-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: XML document structures must start and end within the
 same entity.‍‍

Tomcat is running as root, so I don't think it's a permission problem.
Where do we go from here?

[derek]

Hi,

OK.  That is at good news.  The server is picking the files up.  Could you post the other files, please.

Regards

[dserodio]

As I opened my /etc/alfresco/more-config.xml to paste it here I noticed it contained:

…

    <!– overriding to point to custom properties –>
    <bean id="repository-properties" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders">
            <value>true</value>
        </property>
        <property name="locations">
            <list>
                <value>classpath:alfresco/repository.properties</value>
                <value>classpath:alfresco/version.properties</value>
                <value>classpath:alfresco/domain/transaction.properties</value>
                <!– override core properties –>
                <!–
                <value>file:/etc/alfresco/live.repository.properties</value>
                –>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
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but my configuration lives in /etc/alfresco/live.repository.properties. The reference to this file was commented out!!! (/me hides in shame ) ops:
Thank you very much for your help, and I hope others will benefit from this thread.