Installing Alfresco Community 3.2r WAR on Centos 5.4

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Table of Contents

• 1 A few important words


• 2 Getting started


• 3 Documentation Approach


• 4 Installation Steps

A few important words

This document borrows heavily from an excellent wiki post located at the following url:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_Community_3.2_WAR_on_Centos_5.3

Thanks goes to:

1. Alfresco team for creating Alfresco and opensourcing the project; and
   
2. the original group of wiki contributors, whom made this revision possible.
   

Getting started

Caution! The following instructions require root access. Please be
cognizant that you could negatively affect your system due to inadvertent
commands. Mind what you type!!

Documentation Approach

This documents presents the actual steps which were necessary to install Alfresco Comunity 3.2r war on a freshly installed CentOS 5.4 x86_64 minimal installation. The CentOS 5.4 installation was done through text based network setup and none of extra packages nor gui has been installed. i386 installation should work the same. Just refer to the i386 / i586 packages where needed (e.g. jPackage, swf-tools etc.)

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[root@server ~]#  

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<enter>

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Text ommited, e.g. from files or output is indicated by

...

Interactive application prompts, e.g. mysql, are indicated by

mysql> 

Comments for further actions or reviews are indicated by

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Installation Steps

[root@server base]# system-config-securitylevel-tui
 Securitylevel enabled
 SELinux enforcing
 Customize
 other: 8080
 
[root@server ~]# yum update
[root@server ~]# yum install tomcat5 tomcat5-common-lib tomcat5-jasper tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api tomcat5-server-lib tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-graphicfilter openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-xsltfilter openoffice.org-headless mysql-server mysql xml-commons-apis wget
[root@server ~]# yum install ImageMagick rpm-build
[root@server ~]# rpm -e --nodeps java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel
[root@server ~]# yum update
[root@server ~]# cd 
[root@server ~]# mkdir alfresco
[root@server ~]# cd alfresco
[root@server alfresco]# wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/alfresco/Alfresco/3.2r%20Community%20Edition/alfresco-community-war-3.2r.tar.gz \ 
  http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/alfresco/Alfresco/3.2r%20Community%20Edition/alfresco-community-sample-extensions-3.2r.tar.gz \ 
  http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/alfresco/Alfresco/3.2r%20Community%20Edition/alfresco-xforms-examples-3.2r.tar.gz \ 
  http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/alfresco/WCM/3.2r%20Community%20Edition/alfresco-community-wcm-3.2r.tar.gz \ 
  http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/alfresco/Records%20Management/3.2r%20Community%20Edition/AlfrescoRMCommunity-3.2r-Linux-x86-Install \ 
  http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/alfresco/Records%20Management/3.2r%20Community%20Edition/alfresco-dod5015-unsupported-3.2r.amp \ 
  http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/alfresco/Records%20Management/3.2r%20Community%20Edition/alfresco-dod5015-share-unsupported-3.2r.amp \ 
  http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/alfresco/Extensions/3.2r%20Community%20Edition/vti-module-3.2r.amp \ 
  http://mysql.speedbone.de/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.tar.gz \
  http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1.7/generic/non-free/SRPMS/java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.06-1jpp.src.rpm 
 
 
#
# Now we compile and install swftools 0.9.0 as version 0.8.1 will not work with Alfresco. Currently 
# version 0.9.0 is not available as rpm so we have to do all the work by ourselfs. 
# I prefere to do this on a separate machine and copy the binaries to the respective folders in the 
# productive machine. But for simplicity we are doing all steps here directly
# 
[root@server alfresco]# yum install gcc gcc-c++ automake zlib-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel giflib-devel fontconfig-devel freeglut-devel  
[root@server alfresco]# wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/el5-x86_64/atrpms/stable/libmp3lame0-3.98.2-20.el5.x86_64.rpm \
  ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/el5-x86_64/atrpms/stable/lame-devel-3.98.2-20.el5.x86_64.rpm \
  ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/RPMS.dag/lame-3.98.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm \
  ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/x86_64/RPMS/t1lib-5.1.0-9.el5.kb.x86_64.rpm \
  http://www.swftools.org/swftools-0.9.0.tar.gz 
[root@server alfresco]# rpm -i lame-3.98.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm libmp3lame0-3.98.2-20.el5.x86_64.rpm \ 
  t1lib-5.1.0-9.el5.kb.x86_64.rpm lame-devel-3.98.2-20.el5.x86_64.rpm
[root@server alfresco]# tar xzf swftools-0.9.0.tar.gz
[root@server alfresco]# cd swftools-0.9.0
[root@server swftools-0.9.0]# ./configure
  ...
  checking for Python.h... nope
  checking for missing libraries...
  configure: creating ./config.status
  config.status: creating Makefile.common
  config.status: WARNING:  'Makefile.common.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
  config.status: creating Makefile
  config.status: creating lib/Makefile
  config.status: creating lib/action/Makefile
  config.status: creating src/Makefile
  config.status: creating lib/pdf/Makefile
  config.status: creating swfs/Makefile
  config.status: creating lib/art/Makefile
  config.status: creating lib/readers/Makefile
  config.status: creating config.h
   
[root@server swftools-0.9.0]# make 
[root@server swftools-0.9.0]# make install
[root@server swftools-0.9.0]# whereis pdf2swf 
  pdf2swf: /usr/local/bin/pdf2swf
[root@server swftools-0.9.0]# cd ..
 
 
#
# Download sun java jdk 6 from sun.com scripting not possible as requires one time auth code 😞
# 
 
 
[root@server alfresco]# chmod 755 jdk-6u20-linux-x64-rpm.bin
[root@server alfresco]# ./jdk-6u20-linux-x64-rpm.bin
 ...
 Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no]
 yes<enter>
 ...
 For more information on what data Registration collects and
 how it is managed and used, see:
 http://java.sun.com/javase/registration/JDKRegistrationPrivacy.html
 
 Press Enter to continue.....
 <enter> 
 Done.
 
[root@server alfresco]# mkdir -p /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
 
[root@server alfresco]# rpm -ivh java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.06-1jpp.src.rpm
 warning: java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.06-1jpp.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID c431416d
    1:java-1.6.0-sun-compat  warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
 warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
 warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
 warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
 warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
 warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
########################################### [100%]
 
[root@server alfresco]# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
[root@server SPECS]# vi java-1.6.0-sun-compat.spec
 
 %define buildver        20
 ...
 %config(noreplace) %{_jvmdir}/%{jredir}/lib/security/cacerts
 %config(noreplace) %{_jvmdir}/%{jredir}/lib/security/blacklist
 %config(noreplace) %{_jvmdir}/%{jredir}/lib/security/javaws.policy
 %config(noreplace) %{_jvmdir}/%{jredir}/lib/security/trusted.libraries
 
[root@server SPECS]# rpmbuild -bb java-1.6.0-sun-compat.spec
[root@server SPECS]# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.20-1jpp.x86_64.rpm
[root@server SPECS]# java -version
 java version '1.6.0_20'
 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02)
 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode)
 
[root@server SPECS]# alternatives --config java
 
 There are 2 programs which provide 'java'.
 
   Selection    Command
 -----------------------------------------------
    1           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java
 *+ 2           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java
 
 Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number:<enter>
 
[root@server SPECS]# cd ~/alfresco
[root@server alfresco]# vi /etc/sysconfig/tomcat5
# If you wish to further customize your tomcat environment,
# put your own definitions here
# (i.e. LD_LIBRARY_PATH for some jdbc drivers)
# Just do not forget to export them 🙂
 
 JAVA_OPTS='$JAVA_OPTS -Xms1g -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512M'
 
[root@server alfresco]# mkdir base
[root@server alfresco]# cd base
[root@server base]# tar xzf ../alfresco-community-war-3.2r.tar.gz
[root@server base]# chkconfig mysqld on
[root@server base]# service mysqld start
[root@server base]# mysql -u root -p 

Swftools-centos54-x86_64.tar.gz