Requirements
Liferay
OS and Hardware Settings
Virtual: Why not - the benefist are huge
Preferred OS: Ubuntu LTS 64-bit
Hardware: At least 2 CPU's and at least 4 GB Ram
Libs
Different Libs for image support (ImageMagick), SWFTools (Flash), etc
sudo apt-get install mysql-server ImageMagick GhostScript smbclient libjpeg62 libgif4 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ffmpeg sudo apt-get install libart-2.0-2 wget http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/pool/partner/s/swftools/swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb chmod a+x swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb sudo rm swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
LibreOffice
sudo apt-get install libreoffice sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer fonts-droid
SMTP Access for sending mail
IMAP Access for picking up mail
Installation
Prepare database
Create the Database
mysql>mysql> create database liferay CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP,ALTER,INDEX on liferay.* to liferay@localhost identified by '*****'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Install binaries
Download Liferay from https://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/overview
JAVA is not integrated, and must be installed
MySQL Driver is at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
Upzip the download
cd /opt unzip liferay-portal-tomcat-6.2-ce-ga2-20140319114139101.zip mv liferay-portal-tomcat-6.2-ce-ga2-20140319114139101 liferay
If You use MySQL, we need to copy in the driver (get it here) first to /opt/alfresco/tomcat/lib:
sudo cp mysql-connector-java-5.1.34-bin.jar /opt/liferay/tomcat-7.0.42/lib
Enter MySQL stuff
vi /opt/liferay/tomcat-7.0.42/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/portal-ext.properties jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/liferay?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false jdbc.default.username=liferay jdbc.default.password=******
Start Liferay
cd /opt/liferay/tomcat-7.0.42/bin ./startup.sh Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/alfresco/tomcat Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/alfresco/tomcat Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/temp Using JRE_HOME: /opt/alfresco/java Using CLASSPATH: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar Using CATALINA_PID: /opt/alfresco/tomcat/temp/catalina.pid Tomcat started. /opt/alfresco/tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh : tomcat started root@myserver:~#
See everything is ok:
root@myserver:~# tail -f /opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
If the database bootstrap fails due to Driver failure, Yo will see:
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Database connection failed: Cannot create JDBC driver of class 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver' for connect URL 'jdbc:mysql:localhost/alfresco'
Restart install
Easiest way to restart setup is to kill the java process and remove the install dir:
killall -9 java rm -rf /opt/alfresco
Postinstall
Also review http://docs.alfresco.com/community/concepts/prereq-opt-install.html
Move data
You can move the data dir /opt/alfresco/alf_data to another location (Renaming is not recommeded, the "alf_data" name is in several config files allover)
unzip /etc/init.d/alfresco stop cd /opt/alfresco/ mv alf_data /data/ ln -s /data/alf_data . /etc/init.d/alfresco start
Correct Paths
Edit the /opt/alfresco/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties and check paths
Enable CIFS
Edit the /opt/alfresco/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
## CIFS ## cifs.disableNativeCode=false cifs.enabled=true cifs.serverName=alfresco.myserver.dk cifs.domain=MYSERVER cifs.hostannounce=true cifs.sessionTimeout=500 cifs.ipv6.enabled=false cifs.tcpipSMB.port=445 cifs.netBIOSSMB.namePort=137 cifs.netBIOSSMB.datagramPort=138 cifs.netBIOSSMB.sessionPort=139 cifs.WINS.autoDetectEnabled=true
Test CIFS
With the SMB Clinet You can test and browse:
root@myserver: smbclient -U admin \\\\127.0.0.1\\alfresco Enter admin's password: Domain=[MOS-EISLEY] OS=[Java] Server=[Alfresco CIFS Server 6.0.0] smb: \> ls . D 0 Tue Feb 26 18:39:48 2013 .. D 0 Tue Feb 26 18:39:48 2013 __ShowDetails.exe 393216 Tue Feb 26 18:00:58 2013 __CheckInOut.exe 393216 Tue Feb 26 18:00:58 2013 __Alfresco.url 131 Tue Feb 26 18:00:58 2013 Data Dictionary D 0 Tue Feb 26 08:10:23 2013 Guest Home D 0 Tue Feb 26 08:10:10 2013 User Homes D 0 Tue Feb 26 13:28:42 2013 Imap Attachments D 0 Tue Feb 26 08:10:44 2013 Sites D 0 Tue Feb 26 18:40:03 2013 65535 blocks of size 33553920. 32767 blocks available smb: \>
Enable FTP
Edit the /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties (see http://docs.alfresco.com/4.1/concepts/fileserv-ftp-props.html)
### FTP Server Configuration ### ftp.enabled=true ftp.port=21 ftp.ipv6.enabled=false
Other
Proxy passing
There are good reasons for using an Apache or Traffic Manager in front of the Alfresco Installation, some are:
- No port changing (non-root users can assign to ports below 1024)
- Use of URL Rewrite
- Use of URL Blocking
- Use of Allow/Denial
- SSL offloading/handling outside the Confluence
Se my example in Apache2 Proxy Passing
Trashcan tweaking
Instead of having Alfreso putting deleted files into the contentstore.deleted directory, which has to be cleaned manually, read http://blyx.com/2014/08/18/understanding-alfresco-content-deletion/ and add the amp https://code.google.com/p/alfresco-trashcan-cleaner/ into /op/alfresco/amps/
Edit the /opt/alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
system.content.eagerOrphanCleanup=true trashcan.cron=0 30 * * * ? trashcan.daysToKeep=1 trashcan.deleteBatchCount=1000
Batch upload
Batch upload to Alfresco sites via CIFS
Logfiles
Logrotate
Set up logrotate to avoid ever growing catalina.out log file. Here JIRA_Home is /opt/jira, logs are rotated daily and kept for 7 days:
/opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs/catalina.out {
daily
rotate 7
compress
copytruncate
delaycompress
missingok
size 10M
notifempty
}