Where is the installation documentation?

[jonnycavell]

Hi

I may be missing something, but I cannot find any information on the most basic thing - how to install Alfresco (Community Edition) on Windows. There is no reference or link to "installation" from the homepage, and my next choice, clicking on the menu item "Documentation", also yielded a page containing no reference to installation. My third choice, typing "installation" into the search box yielded a few Google results for newsletters, but no installation guide. Next, I downloaded the tutorial pdf, but this assumed I had already installed Alfresco.

Not put off, I went to the wiki -> documentation -> server admin guide -> server installation -> installing on ms windows -> download and install Alfresco. This page had the useful information "Having used Documentum for 10 years, everything I have read on Alfresco seems to make a lot of sense. Here I am : discovering the product, installing it and surely promoting it to my customers if it does what it says. Alfresco yours, Pascal".

None the wiser about how to install Alfresco, I have come here. Help!

[mfuggle]

For some time now I have had Alfresco 2.1 running on a CentOS4 server.  I don't recall the details of the installation but I think it was fairly straightforward.  However I want to switch to new hardware and recently set about building a new server on Ubuntu 7.10.  It has been fairly simple to get everything moved across except Alfresco.

I have spent days trying to install Alfresco and have followed the installation instructions very carefully.  There seem to be many other people in the forums stating that they are experiencing problems installing on Ubuntu and the responses from Alfresco developers are along the lines of "try this it might work" but there is not much assistance of substance.  I realise that the community edition is all care and no responsibility but for me it is the pathway to understanding the product and being able to make recommendations to potential clients.

However my experience in trying to install on Ubuntu has soured my view of Alfresco.

Regards
Martin Fuggle

[carejoomla]

If users (without development knowledge) just want to use Alfresco, can it be installed without the Development Kit ?  ops:

[norgan]

Hi there,
why would you need the developement kit ? Just download the package, unpack and start. 

Regards, Norgan

[nullman]

Hi there,
why would you need the developement kit ? Just download the package, unpack and start. 

Regards, Norgan

If only it were that easy… Maybe it was for you, but I am now trying to follow the "Quick Linux Install" instructions on the Wiki. The file it tells you to download to start this isn't even there.

[norgan]

Hmm … then maybe I misunderstood you. I am talking about the standard system, which you can download via Wiki -> Download -> Community Edition (it sends you to the 2.1 page, surf inside sourceforge to the 2.9 section and go on with downloading

alfresco-community-tomcat.2.9b
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373)

Regards, Norgan

[allan1015]

Jesus this is a pain

I had tomcat/java/mysql already installed
i downloaded the 2..9.0B war file (.tar.gz on CentOS)

Instructions say to run alfresco.sh to start the service
I unpacked the war and looked everywhere and there is no .sh files at all (except a 1.3 to 1.4 conversion script)

now what?  I mean this is a pretty basic thing, what did i do?  download wrong file?

2.2 instructions say to run some client application first, then an install, but that all seems ot be for enterprise version
Im just a lowly community user.

And by the way claiming that you must have the install issues solved and well documented because of lots of sourceforge downloads - well I wonder how many folks just give up?  But Im sure its something stupid and its me so please help.

[steve]

Hi,

The WAR packages are for you to put into your existing app server and will be started when you start your existing app server your existing way…
You may need to tweak the JAVA_OPTS to give your app server more memory.

The 'alfresco.sh' is just a file that does this for you and can be found in our tomcat bundles.

Steve

[jaime_martin]

hi,
I want to use Alfresco to publish documents in a web server and to allow people to download them from it. I guess that what I need is to install Alfresco WCM. Is that right? What do I need exactly to install? (I don´t have any Alfresco sw installed)
I´ve already downloaded WCM's zip  and read its readme but I really am not sure if it is compulsory to have first installed Alfresco SDK , Alfresco Records management, other.. or if it would be enough with  alfresco-community-wcm-xx.zip (considering Virtualization server and configuring WCM to bootstrap stated in the readme file)
thanks in advance!

[smoore]

Hi, I downloaded alfresco-enterprise-tomcat-2.2.0.tar.gz, extracted it and can't seem to see tomcat running. After importing the db file, to I have to change a config file? Where I can put the db credentials?

I'm not sure if I'm doing the right thing, but someone from IRC said that alfresco needs only to be unpack, then I should be able to use.

[jread]

I wish I could vote more often

The Basic install is fine

Try to get it to work as advertised and have users actually use it…. Now that is where the agrevation come….And boy does it come…