Download Alfresco Community Edition for free. Open Source Enterprise Content Management ECM. The open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software that handles any type of content, allowing users to easily share and collaborate on content. Alfresco Community 4.2.f is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Learn more about what's in Alfresco Community 4.2. For further information, refer.
Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system that manages all the content within an enterprise and provides the services and controls that help manage this content.
This is an entirely Java-based application and can run on any OS that can support a JRE and the Community Edition is fully customizable/extensible as it is open-source.
Alfresco is available as an all-in-one installer (includes the core application, PostGreSQL, Tomcat, and all other bits and pieces). This is suitable for a fresh install on a new system. But if you already have a Tomcat server & a PostGRE DB running on your system, the all-in-one can complicate your installation. This tutorial shows how to install Alfresco using the packaged WAR file on an existing Tomcat installation and connect to an existing PostGreSql DB service.
Use this link:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Community_file_list_4.2.c Scroll down to the ‘Individual Components’ section and download alfresco-community-4.2.c.zip. Unzip it. You’ll see the below structure:
Here you can learn more about the various files and what they’re for.
I used PostGreSql with my Alfresco installation. If you have a different choice of DB (say MySql), the steps you need to follow may differ slightly, but would be very similar to below. For below steps, we’ll use the PgAdmin III tool that comes with PostGreSql. The version I’m using is 9.3.
This is where Alfresco will store all its content. Ensure this is an empty directory, in case it already exists
These are common DB properties, which you’ll need to specify irrespective of what DB you are using.
These properties are specific to PostGreSQL. If you are using a different database, just find the appropriate section and uncomment/edit it. (The configuration file already has placeholder properties for most other DBs.
These properties tell Alfresco what FTP port to use. If the default port 1121 is already used by a different application, choose another one.
Try these 2 URLs:
http://localhost:8080/share
http://localhost:8080/alfresco
Default username & password for both webapps is admin/admin.
Substitute the right port number in case your Tomcat is not running on 8080 (check <Tomcat Home>/conf/server.xml and look for <Connector port=”XXXX” protocol=”HTTP/1.1″ and check what port is being used.
Alfresco also provides a File Transfer Receiver, which can be used by it to send/receive files from a remote file system. In the above case, the file system is on the same server as the Alfresco web application, so this is not needed. I will cover this in a different post. I will also touch on the topic of how to connect cmdbuild (open source configuration management tool) to Alfresco to save asset metadata and attachments in a different post (EDIT: Here it is)
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For more complex Alfresco Community Edition installations, or if you wish to use an existing Tomcat application server, you can use the Web Archive (WAR) bundle to install Alfresco Community Edition on any platform. For manual installation, you must ensure that the required software is installed on the machine.
Use this method of installing Alfresco Community Edition if you already have installed a JRE, a supported database, a supported application server, a message broker, and the additional components.
For information about securing Tomcat, see Tomcat security considerations.
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