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had some free time on my hands and thought i’d use it to practice more on linux and stuff. so, here i’m going to share what i did to have alfresco up and running. it’s pretty straightforward actually.

first off, alfresco requirements:

• alfresco installation files with pre-configured tomcat bundle
• sun java jdk (jdk6 required)
• mysql database server

the requirements i listed above are the least, which means you can get alfresco up and running by having only those three. also note that i did this on a fresh ubuntu installation.

1. install sun java jdk

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

2. set environment variable for JAVA_HOME

verify if it has been set

echo $JAVA_HOME

if not,

sudo nano /etc/environment

append to a new line

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/

3. install mysql server

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

4. create alfresco database

login to mysql database and perform the following

CREATE DATABASE alfresco DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON alfresco.* TO alfresco@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'alfresco';
GRANT SELECT,LOCK TABLES on alfresco.* TO alfresco@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'alfresco';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

take note of the database name, username and password, it’ll be needed in the alfresco configuration later on.

5. download alfresco installation files

create alfresco directory

sudo mkdir /opt/alfresco

download alfresco community 3.2r2 with pre-configured tomcat bundle and store it in the above directory. wget doesn’t work on this so i had to download it on my host machine and transferred it using winscp.

6. extract alfresco installation files

cd /opt/alfresco
sudo tar xvf alfresco-community-tomcat-3.2r2.tar.gz

7. configuring alfresco installation

modify alfresco global properties file

cd /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes
sudo nano alfresco-global.properties

locate dir.root and set to

dir.root=/opt/alfresco/alf_data

set mysql database settings

db.name=alfresco
db.username=alfresco
db.password=alfresco
db.host=localhost
db.port=3306

8. start alfresco

cd /opt/alfresco
sudo bash alfresco.sh start

note that this start/stop script can also be added as an init script, so you’ll have something like /etc/init.d/alfresco start. verify if java process has been started by using the top command.

9. browse alfresco and alfresco share

open web browser and point to http://[your server ip]:8080/alfresco or http://[your server ip]:8080/share

whala! alfresco repository site should load by now, as well as alfresco share. you can login as admin/admin. this installation is very basic, and other modules may be installed to extend the features of alfresco. i’ll see if i can also experiment on installing other alfresco modules.

next goal, apply this on our new alfresco server. :)