Installing and Configuring Alfresco
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Contents
Preface........................................................................................................................................8
Audience..............................................................................................................................8Conventions.........................................................................................................................8Typographic conventions used in this guide...............................................................8User interface command conventions.........................................................................8System paths...............................................................................................................9Frequently occurring tasks................................................................................................10Opening a Windows command prompt.....................................................................10Running Windows batch files....................................................................................10Adding folder paths to the Windows path variable....................................................11Changing the default shell (Unix/Linux/Solaris) for shell scripts................................11Setting file limits for Linux.........................................................................................12Resources..........................................................................................................................12
Before installing...................................................................................................................... 13
Installation files..................................................................................................................13Alfresco......................................................................................................................13SharePoint Protocol Support.....................................................................................14Alfresco WCM............................................................................................................14Alfresco Records Management.................................................................................14Alfresco SDK AND APIs............................................................................................14Alfresco Web Service client.......................................................................................15Extensions..................................................................................................................15Microsoft Office Add-ins............................................................................................15Software requirements.......................................................................................................15Installing a JDK.................................................................................................................16Verifying the JAVA_HOME environment variable location........................................16Installing MySQL................................................................................................................16Installing MySQL........................................................................................................16Configuring MySQL....................................................................................................17Verifying the MySQL installation...............................................................................17
Installing Alfresco................................................................................................................... 19
Installing Alfresco on Windows.........................................................................................19Installing Alfresco on Windows..................................................................................19Installing Alfresco Tomcat bundle on Windows.........................................................20Installing Alfresco on Red Hat Linux.................................................................................21Installing Alfresco on Red Hat Linux.........................................................................21Installing the Alfresco Tomcat bundle on Linux.........................................................23Installing Alfresco on Mac.................................................................................................23Installing the Alfresco WAR on any platform....................................................................25Download the extension samples..............................................................................25Modifying the directory paths for Tomcat 6.x............................................................26