Document Management System (Alfresco) installation and deployment guide

Prerequisites

• The default Alfresco configuration in ModularIT uses NTLM authentication, so you will need a ModularIT Samba server as a NTLM authenticator

Known Bugs

• CIFS Server does not correctly authenticate users, but NTLM auth using DAV and Web interface works...

Preparation

• Download the image here
• Configure the virtual machine with the following parameters:
  • Volume size: 6GB
  • RAM: 512 MB (minimum, more is better)
  • Name: alfresco

  vmcreate --size 6G --file modularit-timanfaya-1.1-alfresco_1.tgz --mem 512 --ip 192.168.69.27 alfresco

• Alfresco will store documents in /var/alfresco it is strongly recommended to create a separate LV volume for this directory

• Boot the virtual machine:

  xm create -c /etc/xen/auto/alfresco

• Login as root using the password: passwd.root and change the default password

Machine configuration

Follow the generic machine configuration as described in ModularITXenUDeploymentGuideEn

Service preparation

• Make sure the server can resolve his own name

  ping alfresco

• Execute the Alfresco service initialization script. Note: This step removes ALL Alfresco data, so never do it on a production server

  /etc/init.d/alfresco stop
  modularit-alfresco-init.rb

• Now you can connect to Alfresco in: http://alfresco:8080/alfresco