Upgrade to 4.0 howto?

[ssrjazz]

Can anyone point me to a howto or other instructions on upgrading from Alfresco Community 3.4e to 4.0?

Thanks!

[mabotaleb]

Hi All I tried to follow those steps but I keep getting this error

11:12:13,542 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: /var/alfresco/alf_data
11:12:13,560 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] CONTENT INTEGRITY ERROR: System content not found in content store.
11:12:13,560 ERROR [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to the correct data location.
11:12:13,562 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: 07280000 Ensure that the 'dir.root' property is pointing to the correct data location.
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.check(ConfigurationChecker.java:248)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.access$000(ConfigurationChecker.java:68)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker$1.execute(ConfigurationChecker.java:179)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:388)
        at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:278)
        at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.onBootstrap(ConfigurationChecker.java:183)
        at org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:56)
        at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEventInternal(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:209)
        at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:180)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:303)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:911)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:428)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:276)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:197)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
        at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:63)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4135)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4630)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:445)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Dear Community, also thanks to advice in this topic, I managed to upgrade my Alfresco 3.4 to 4.0.d. After many attempts-and-failures and reading through error logs, here are my "final" steps:

1. I'm running Windows 2008 with MySQL. My 3.4 installation rested in "Alfresco" folder, and used "alfresco" database.
2. I shut down old alfresco service and made backups of whole Alfresco folder and (more important in my case) exported current 'alfresco' database.
3. I created a new database (scheme) in mysql: alfresco4 and granted appropriate (mysql) user permissions.
4. I installed Alfresco 4.0.d from setup wizard, into a different folder on disk ("Alfresco4" instead of previous "Alfresco").
a) I elected not to install pgsql.
b) for DB Driver, I entered "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver"; for DB URL, I entered  "jdbc:mysql://localhost/alfresco4".
5. I copied "mysql-connector-java-5.1.13-bin.jar" file from old installation to new installation. Path: [alfresco folder]\tomcat\lib\
6. I verified that the service starts and that I could log in with default username "admin" and password. It worked. I stopped the service.
7. I deleted the alfresco4 database and created it anew. (Or, you could just delete all the individual tables therein… but may encounter some dependency issues.)
8. I imported the database backup (dump) from (2) above into "alfresco4" database.
9. I (after making a backup copy) merged old "alf_data" folder into newly created "alf_data" folder (in "Alfresco4").
10. I started the service and tried to access Alfresco Share and Explorer on their usual addresses. Apparently, engine run all the necessary upgrade tasks. Things seem to work!
11. As per advice above (@citizenkane, thank you), I switched from "solr" to "lucene" indexing engine. Search now works.
12. I did other necessary tweaks - set up mail and googledocs settings … I did not, after 2 days, run into any other issues.

I hope one may find these steps useful.

-Žiga Dolhar

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