Alfresco-Windows-Installation-Guide

Step-by-step Alfresco 6.x non containerized installation guide on Windows

Prerequisites

• Java 8 installed & set up JAVA_HOME
• Up and running Database Steps to initialize PostgreSQL:
  • Download PostrgreSQL and install (pref on port 5432)
  • Using pgAdmin create database 'alfresco' with encoding 'utf8'
  • create role alfresco login and password both: 'alfresco'
  • grant all on database alfresco to alfresco; You can do it also via command line by entering these commands: CREATE USER alfresco WITH PASSWORD 'admin';
CREATE DATABASE alfresco OWNER alfresco ENCODING 'utf8';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE alfresco TO alfresco;
• Up and ready to run Tomcat (tested on v.9) - Download & extract Tomcat
• Alfresco files - Download & extract Alfresco files (Distribution and Alfresco Search Services)

Installation

1. Create 'Alfresco' folder (pref: C:\Alfresco). It will be called <ALFRESCO_ROOT>
2. Copy Tomcat folder to <ALFRESCO_ROOT>. It will be called <TOMCAT_HOME>
3. Create following directories under <TOMCAT_HOME>
   • shared/classes
   • shared/lib
4. Create following directories in <ALFRESCO_HOME>
   • modules/platform
   • modules/share
5. Modify <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf/catalina.properties
   • shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes
6. Extract Distribution.zip
   • Copy "alf_data", "alfresco-pdf-renderer", "amps", "bin", "licenses" into <ALFRESCO_HOME>
   • Copy all folders inside web-server to <TOMCAT_HOME>/
   • Remove all directories (only directories) from <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps
7. Create alfresco-global.properties file in <TOMCAT_HOME>/shared/classes and paste (This is only a basic template. You can edit it and make own custom settings):

#
# Custom content and index data location
#
dir.root=C:/Alfresco/alf_data
dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore

#
# Sample database connection properties
#
db.username=alfresco
db.password=alfresco

# PostgreSQL
db.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
db.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/alfresco

# MySQL
#db.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
#db.url=jdbc:mysql://${db.host}:${db.port}/${db.name}?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8 

# Other databases configurations:
# https://docs.alfresco.com/6.1/concepts/intro-db-setup.html

# Email configurations:
# https://docs.alfresco.com/6.1/concepts/email-intro.html

#
# URL Generation Parameters (The ${localname} token is replaced by the local server name)
#-------------
alfresco.context=alfresco
alfresco.host=${localname}
alfresco.port=8080
alfresco.protocol=http

share.context=share
share.host=${localname}
share.port=8080
share.protocol=http

# Solr6
index.subsystem.name=solr6
solr.secureComms=none
solr.host=localhost
solr.port=8983
solr.port.ssl=8984

# ssl encryption
#encryption.ssl.keystore.location=${dir.keystore}/ssl.keystore
#encryption.ssl.keystore.type=JCEKS
#encryption.ssl.keystore.keyMetaData.location=${dir.keystore}/ssl-keystore-passwords.properties
#encryption.ssl.truststore.location=${dir.keystore}/ssl.truststore
#encryption.ssl.truststore.type=JCEKS
#encryption.ssl.truststore.keyMetaData.location=${dir.keystore}/ssl-truststore-passwords.properties

# secret key keystore configuration
#encryption.keystore.location=${dir.keystore}/keystore
#encryption.keystore.keyMetaData.location=${dir.keystore}/keystore-passwords.properties
#encryption.keystore.type=JCEKS


# If not using ActiveMQ
messaging.subsystem.autoStart=false

# When using CMIS in browser
#alfresco.restApi.basicAuthScheme=true

# ImageMagick
#img.root=C:\\Alfresco\\ImageMagick
#img.exe=${img.root}\\convert.exe
#img.coders=${img.root}/modules/coders
#img.config=${img.root}/config

# pdf-renderer
alfresco-pdf-renderer.root=c:/Alfresco/alfresco-pdf-renderer
alfresco-pdf-renderer.exe=${alfresco-pdf-renderer.root}/alfresco-pdf-renderer

# LibreOffice
#jodconverter.officeHome=c:/Alfresco/LibreOffice
#jodconverter.portNumbers=8101

It is highly recommended to at least look through this configuration file.

8. Alfresco-search-services

   • Extract and copy to <ALFRESCO_ROOT>. You can rename it to solr6
   • Update the solr6/solr.in.cmd set SOLR_ALFRESCO_PORT=8983
   • Start solr in cmd <-- It eneables many Alfresco features. You should have it started before starting Alfresco. ./solr/bin/solr start -a "-Dcreate.alfresco.defaults=alfresco,archive"

   You can stop it by enterning this command: ./solr/bin/solr stop

   • Verify if you can enter http://localhost:8983/solr/#/

9. Start Alfresco by executing <TOMCAT_HOME>/bin/startup.bat

10. Enjoy!

Detailed instructions:

Alfresco installation guide