[SOLVED] Change FTP landing folder

[tonystra]

Hi,
I'm trying to change the default directory for FTP service.

My installation is Alfresco Community 5.2.0 

By default, when a user gets connected to Alfresco FTP, he lands in directory Alfresco, but i want a specific subfolder (i.e. /Alfresco/Sites/ftp-root/documentLibrary).

I've followed some tips suggested on the forum, but nothing changes. In alfresco documentation is specified that:

"Using the subsystem extension classpath mechanism, site specific customization of these default values can be placed in a Spring bean file. Create a file called custom-file-servers-context.xml and place it in a folder with the path <extension>\subsystems\fileServers\default\default\custom-file-servers-context.xml (note that the default\default part of the path is intentional)."

I've created custom-file-servers-context.xml with the following content:

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="FTP Server">
      <rootDirectory>/Alfresco/Sites/ftp-root/documentLibrary</rootDirectory>
</config>

both in directory

/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/fileServers/default/default/

and

/opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/fileServers/default/default/

It doesn't work. 

I'm not sure about the content of the file, because it is not documented anywhere what can be specified inside of it. I think that it must contain something like the content of
https://github.com/Alfresco/community-edition-old/blob/master/projects/repository/config/alfresco/su...

Any help isapreciated.

Thanks,
Antonio

[tonystra]

Hi guys, 

thanks to all. I got it working with the following configuration:

file: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/fileServers/default/default/custom.properties

content of the file: protocols.rootPath=/app:company_home/st:sites/cm:ftp-root/cm:documentLibrary

I've only one last question: in this way, the default root is still visible as "Alfresco"

So, basically, I've the user projected under the documentLibrary of the site ftp-root, but the user see this folder named as Alfresco.

Is possible to remove Alfresco at all? I tried with

protocols.rootPath=/st:sites/cm:ftp-root/cm:documentLibrary

but it doesn't work. 

Any tips? 

Thanks,

Antonio.

[afaust]

The name of the root is defined by the filesystem.name property. Add that with a different value to your custom properties file and you should be fine..

[tonystra]

Great! 

It works as expected!

Thankyou very much for your help and patience.

A.

[kintu_barot]

Can you pls write the property which is working in your case?

[tonystra]

Hi Kintu,

in my case I've created the following file:

/opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/fileServers/default/default/custom.properties

with the following content

filesystem.name=Repository
protocols.rootPath=/app:company_home/st:sites/cm:ftp-root/cm:documentLibrary

Where:

filesystem.name stands for the name of the folder i can find as root directory when connected via FTP client

and

protocols.rootPath is the the folder of the site where I want the users lands when connected via FTP

Hope it helps.

A.