Alfresco community-4.0.b manual install guide for Ubuntu Linux

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November 20, 2011 21:00:58 Last update: November 20, 2011 21:10:22

Alfresco community-4.0.b has only 64-bit installer for Linux. These are the steps to manually install it on 32-bit Ubuntu Linux.

Download alfresco-community-4.0.b.zip from http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_and_Install_Alfresco.
Install dependencies:
```
$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick swftools postgresql
```
Note: swftools was not available as a package for Ubuntu 11.10, I installed it with source.

Create alfresco database:

$ sudo bash
[sudo] password for alfresco: 
# su - postgres
$ psql
psql (9.1.1)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# create user alfresco password 'alfresco';
CREATE ROLE
postgres=# create database alfresco owner=alfresco;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres-# \q

Copy everything from the Alfresco web-server folder to Tomcat:

$ cp -R alfresco-community-4.0.b/web-server/* apache-tomcat-7.0.22/

Edit $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/catalina.properties, change shared.loader to:

shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar

Edit Tomcat conf file conf/server.xml, add URIEncoding="UTF-8":

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
    	   URIEncoding="UTF-8"
           connectionTimeout="20000" 
           redirectPort="8443" />

Customize alfresco-global.properties:

$ mv shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties.sample shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

Edit shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties:

###############################
## Common Alfresco Properties #
###############################
dir.root=/home/alfresco/alf_data
dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore

alfresco.context=alfresco
alfresco.host=127.0.0.1
alfresco.port=8080
alfresco.protocol=http

share.context=share
share.host=127.0.0.1
share.port=8080
share.protocol=http

### database connection properties ###
db.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
db.username=alfresco
db.password=alfresco
db.name=alfresco
db.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/${db.name}

### FTP Server Configuration ###
ftp.enabled=false
ftp.port=21
ftp.ipv6.enabled=false

### RMI service ports ###
alfresco.rmi.services.port=50500
avm.rmi.service.port=0
avmsync.rmi.service.port=0
attribute.rmi.service.port=0
authentication.rmi.service.port=0
repo.rmi.service.port=0
action.rmi.service.port=0
deployment.rmi.service.port=0

### External executable locations ###
ooo.exe=/usr/bin/soffice
ooo.enabled=true
ooo.port=8100
img.root=/usr
img.dyn=${img.root}/lib
img.exe=${img.root}/bin/convert
swf.exe=/usr/local/bin/pdf2swf
jodconverter.enabled=true
jodconverter.officeHome=/usr/lib/libreoffice
jodconverter.portNumbers=8100 

### E-mail site invitation setting ###
notification.email.siteinvite=false

### File Protocol Root ###
protocols.rootPath=/${spaces.company_home.childname}/${spaces.sites.childname}

### License location ###
dir.license.external=/usr/alfresco/Downloads/alfresco-community-4.0.b

### Solr indexing ###
#index.subsystem.name=solr
#solr.port.ssl=8443

### BPM Engine ###
system.workflow.engine.jbpm.enabled=false

Copy keystore files from alfresco.war: expand alfresco.war, grab the whole keystore directory from WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/ and put it in ${dir.root}.

Set JAVA_OPTS:

$ export JAVA_OPTS='-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xms128m -Xmx768m'

Startup Tomcat:
```
bin/startup.sh
```
Monitor alfresco.log under $TOMCAT_HOME.

Note 1: I used Libreoffice instead of Open Office since Ubuntu 11.10 comes with Libreoffice bundled.
Note 2: The JDBC driver jar must reside in $TOMCAT_HOME/lib, not $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/lib.

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