View deployed site in localhost

[jayagopalan]

Hi,
      I am following the WCM Evaluation guide and I am able to import the sample website and create content using the wizard.

I have deployed the sample site to the localhost as per the instructions in WCM Eval guide.

Deployment is successful. However I am not able to view the LIVE version of the site deployed in the local host.

Deployment Successful
Snapshot: 3
Started: 14 June 2008 16:54
Finished: 14 June 2008 16:56
By: admin
Details
COPIED alfrescosamplelive:/www/avm_webapps

Please advice & Thanks,
Jay.

[pmonks]

That's because you've deployed your content to the same instance of Alfresco that you deployed from.  Kind of confusing and not all that useful or realistic, but a good way to easily demonstrate Alfresco's deployment capabilities.  :wink:

What has actually happened is that the deployment functionality has created a second store containing your content, but it's a "hidden" store that isn't visible in the Web Client UI as a Web Project.  It is, however, visible in the Node Browser tool (part of the administration console that only admin users can access) - you should see a second copy of your Web Project with the same DNS name as the original but with something like "–live" appended to the end (I don't recall the exact suffix, but it's something like that).

Obviously this isn't very useful in the real world, since there's no easy way to expose that store as a web site.  You could mount the store via CIFS and then configure it as a docroot in your web server, but in the real world you'd be more likely to deploy your content to a native filesystem docroot using a FileSystem Receiver (see http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Deployment#Alfresco_To_File_Server_Deployment_.28FSR.29).

As a next step beyond the evaluation guide I'd encourage you to download the FSR ("wcm-deployment") bundle and install it, then configure your web server to use that deployed directory as a docroot.  This isn't overly complex (assuming you're familiar with how web servers work) and is a great next step beyond the evaluation guide, particularly since it's much closer to how Alfresco deployment is used in the real world.

Cheers,
Peter

[jayagopalan]

Hi Peter,
      Thanks for your reply. I will check the wcm_deployment as advised.

Thanks again,
Jay.