Alfresco Community 3.4 Installing and Configuring Alfresco Contents Preface........................................................................................................................................ 7 Audience.............................................................................................................................. 7 Typographic conventions used in this guide.......................................................................7 System paths.......................................................................................................................7 Alfresco installation location........................................................................................ 8 <classpathRoot> directory (Windows)......................................................................... 8 <classpathRoot> directory (Linux)...............................................................................8 alfresco-global.properties file....................................................................................... 8 <extension> directory...................................................................................................8 <web-extension>..........................................................................................................8 <configRoot>................................................................................................................8 <configRootShare>...................................................................................................... 8 Resources............................................................................................................................8 Installing Alfresco................................................................................................................... 10 Validating the environment................................................................................................10 Installation files.................................................................................................................. 11 Alfresco installation wizards...................................................................................... 12 Alfresco WAR.............................................................................................................12 SharePoint Protocol Support..................................................................................... 12 Alfresco WCM............................................................................................................13 Alfresco Records Management................................................................................. 13 Alfresco SDK AND APIs............................................................................................13 Alfresco Web Service client.......................................................................................13 Microsoft Office Add-ins............................................................................................ 13 Supported stacks............................................................................................................... 14 Installing Alfresco on Windows......................................................................................... 14 Installing Alfresco on Linux............................................................................................... 16 Installing Alfresco on Mac................................................................................................. 18 Installing Alfresco on Tomcat............................................................................................ 20 Software requirements...............................................................................................20 Installing the Alfresco WAR.......................................................................................21 Installing Tomcat application server.......................................................................... 23 Configuration settings for using MySQL with Alfresco.............................................. 24 Deploying Share into a separate Tomcat instance................................................... 24 Configuring Alfresco as a Windows service.............................................................. 25 Installing Alfresco components..........................................................................................26 Installing Alfresco WCM............................................................................................ 26 Installing OpenOffice..................................................................................................28 Installing ImageMagick.............................................................................................. 29 Installing Microsoft Office Add-ins............................................................................. 29 Installing Flash Player............................................................................................... 30 2 Alfresco Community 3.4 Installing SWF Tools..................................................................................................31 Installing TinyMCE language packs.......................................................................... 32 Installing an Alfresco Module Package..................................................................... 33 Installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol Support............................................34 Running Alfresco.....................................................................................................................37 Starting the Alfresco server...............................................................................................37 Starting Alfresco Share..................................................................................................... 37 Starting Alfresco Explorer..................................................................................................37 Stopping the Alfresco server............................................................................................. 38 Starting the Alfresco virtualization server..........................................................................38 Stopping the Alfresco virtualization server........................................................................ 38 Starting the standalone deployment engine......................................................................38 Stopping the standalone deployment engine.................................................................... 39 Mapping Alfresco using WebDAV from Windows 7.......................................................... 39 Configuring Alfresco...............................................................................................................41 Configuration overview...................................................................................................... 41 Global properties file......................................................................................................... 41 Modifying global properties................................................................................................41 Setting composite properties in the global properties file................................................. 42 Java command line........................................................................................................... 43 Setting properties on the Java command line...........................................................43 Modifying Spring bean definition files............................................................................... 44 Modifying system configuration files..................................................................................44 Repository system configuration files........................................................................44 Customizing individual configuration items....................................................................... 45 Customizing properties files...................................................................................... 46 Customizing configuration files..................................................................................46 Customizing bean files.............................................................................................. 47 Configuring databases.......................................................................................................48 Configuring a MySQL database................................................................................ 48 Configuring a PostgreSQL database.........................................................................51 Alfresco subsystems..........................................................................................................51 Subsystem categories................................................................................................52 Subsystem configuration files....................................................................................53 Subsystem properties................................................................................................ 53 Mounting a subsystem...............................................................................................53 Mounting a subsystem with composite properties.....................................................54 Extension classpath...................................................................................................55 Authentication