Alfresco Community Edition

To re-start the service:

service alfresco restart

Log files:

/opt/alfresco-community/share.log
/opt/alfresco-community/alfresco.log
/opt/alfresco-community/tomcat/logs/catalina.out

Configuration (see salt states for more information):

/opt/alfresco-community/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

For backup we are using https://github.com/toniblyx/alfresco-backup-and-recovery-tool

Install

Create the server…

Set the correct hostname: Rename on the server

Tip

Don’t forget to change the minion ID: Update Salt configuration.

Update the server (apt update, apt upgrade).

Install Salt Minion (I followed the old instructions in Salt Cloud - Install (Legacy Notes)).

Connect the minion to the master: Minion.

Run an initial state.apply on the server:

salt 'java-b' state.apply --state-verbose=False

Download the Community Edition to the server (an upload from your laptop will probably take a very long time):

wget http://eu.dl.alfresco.com.s3.amazonaws.com/release/community/201702-build-00016/alfresco-community-installer-201702-linux-x64.bin

Install the Community Edition:

sudo -i
chmod +x /home/patrick/repo/temp/alfresco-community-installer-201702-linux-x64.bin
/home/patrick/repo/temp/alfresco-community-installer-201702-linux-x64.bin

Note

It took me a long time to find all the packages required for the LibreOffice install. There are probably more than we need now: https://github.com/pkimber/salt/commit/fc07bb55a5a1ddc6c7be6fd01209fc7615fe5fdc

Update your /etc/hosts file (or update the DNS).

Configuration

Maximum file size is controlled by Nginx. I don’t think Alfresco has a limit: https://github.com/pkimber/salt/commit/53e45955a18203614cc077e512bab6196a11c4fc

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is not converting files. I tried adding logging (see below). This did not help.

I just found alfresco5_office_preview_fix.md: https://gist.github.com/yohang88/2d5fce9c522ffc6eb1e7689bb09fe7b4

This command says LibreOffice is not running:

/opt/alfresco-community/libreoffice/scripts/libreoffice_ctl.sh status

I updated the LIBREOFFICE_SCRIPT path in /opt/alfresco-community/alfresco.sh:

# LIBREOFFICE_SCRIPT=$INSTALLDIR/libreoffice/scripts/ctl.sh
LIBREOFFICE_SCRIPT=$INSTALLDIR/libreoffice/scripts/libreoffice_ctl.sh

Run this command to check if all dependencies are installed:

/opt/alfresco-community/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin --nofirststartwizard --nologo --headless --accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100

Start LibreOffice using this command:

/opt/alfresco-community/libreoffice/scripts/libreoffice_ctl.sh start

Logging

Copy the sample file:

cp /opt/alfresco-community/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-log4j.properties.sample /opt/alfresco-community/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/audit-log4j.properties

The contents of:

/opt/alfresco-community/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/audit-log4j.properties

Are:

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.enterprise.repo.content=DEBUG
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.TransformerDebug=DEBUG
log4j.logger.org.artofsolving.jodconverter=DEBUG

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.audit.inbound=DEBUG

#log4j.logger.org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExecBootstrapBean=debug
#log4j.logger.org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec=debug

Note

Adding log4j.logger.org.alfresco.repo.audit.inbound=DEBUG gave me lots of output, but nothing useful (for LibreOffice diagnostics).

Restore

Run the following command to restore the data:

/home/web/opt/alfresco-bart.sh restore

Note

When the script asks you to Type a destination path with enough space available, then choose a temporary folder e.g. /home/web/repo/temp/2017-04-20/

To view the database:

psql -U postgres -h localhost

To restore:

service alfresco stop
/opt/alfresco-community/postgresql/scripts/ctl.sh start

# note: to stop postgres
# /opt/alfresco-community/postgresql/scripts/ctl.sh stop

DROP DATABASE alfresco;
CREATE DATABASE alfresco OWNER alfresco;

gunzip -c ~/repo/temp/postgresql/alfresco.dump.gz | psql -h localhost -d alfresco -U postgres

mv /home/web/repo/temp/cs/contentstore /opt/alfresco-community/alf_data/contentstore
mv /home/web/repo/temp/solr/config/index /opt/alfresco-community/alf_data/solr4/index
service alfresco start