Setting up Alfresco 3.2 Community in a Linux VM

I've used Alfresco a bunch in the past at work to maintain documents. We're thinking of upgrading from the (very) old 2.2 release to the (much) newer 3.2 release. This is what I did to get started.

I set this up in a VMware image of a Ubuntu Workstation 9.04 (512 MB RAM, 25GB disk). For information on this, see my other blog post.

To get started with Alfresco, I did the following:
- Download Sun jdk 1.6 se, install, move to /usr/local/java
- Sudo apt-get install mysql-server
** Ask for a new root PW. Set one.
- Download alfresco 3.2 community from http://www.alfresco.org
- Sudo ./Alfresco-....-install
o Chose /opt/alfresco as installation location
o Asks for root pw of mysql;
o Creates ‘alfresco’ database in mysql
o Ask for where Open Office is installed. I fed it /usr/lib/openoffice after locating it on my disk.
o Start Alfresco
- . cd /opt/alfresco
- . ./alf_start.sh
- (wait)
- http://localhost:8080/alfresco

This produces and “up and running” version of alfresco. (NOTE: The NAT interface between my host OS and guest Linux OS is 192.168.177.x. Host is .1 and guest is .177, hence the interfaces below.)
- http://192.168.177.131:8080/alfresco allows access from my external machine
- Shows "guest" account view by default
- Login: admin (default PW)
- Created user for rmills
- Tested login and upload of a document.

Alternate Interface: Alfresco Share

• http://192.168.177.131:8080/share
• Login: rmills or admin
• Create a site (Collaboration Site)
• Name: FirstSite
• URL: firstsite
• Public