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Published inApr 2016
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Vandana Pal
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Vandana Pal

Vandana Pal is a software engineer and author. She currently works as senior consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has extensive experience working with Enterprise Digital Asset Management and Content Management Systems. She has worked with various deployments of Alfresco in various domains, such as media, finance, and healthcare, for different organizations across the world. She has hands-on experience working with architecture design, performance tuning, security implementation, integration, and the orchestration of complex workflows in Alfresco. She has more than 7 years of experience in software engineering. Her journey in this field began when she started working with different open source technologies and found them interesting. She holds a bachelors of engineering degree in information technology from Gujarat University, India. Vandana has also coauthored Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation.
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Installing Alfresco manually on a Tomcat server


We went through the process of using the wizard, which installs all the required components and Alfresco as a bundle. Now if you want to install everything manually, there are some different steps required.

The very first important step will be to find out the supported stack from Alfresco. Based on the version number, decide the OS, JDK, Database, Tomcat, and other component versions required for its installation. This supported stack for the latest version of Alfresco is available on their website; https://www.alfresco.com/services/subscription/supported-platforms.

Once you have the supported stack and decided on the version, prepare the server for Alfresco installation:

  1. Install the supported JDK, Database , Imagemagick, LibreOffice, Ghostscript, and application server for Tomcat (assuming you are using this).

  2. Based on the Alfresco support stack for Alfresco 5, we need Java 7 or Java8. For example, if we need to install Java 7 on Linux OS, one...

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Vandana Pal

Vandana Pal is a software engineer and author. She currently works as senior consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has extensive experience working with Enterprise Digital Asset Management and Content Management Systems. She has worked with various deployments of Alfresco in various domains, such as media, finance, and healthcare, for different organizations across the world. She has hands-on experience working with architecture design, performance tuning, security implementation, integration, and the orchestration of complex workflows in Alfresco. She has more than 7 years of experience in software engineering. Her journey in this field began when she started working with different open source technologies and found them interesting. She holds a bachelors of engineering degree in information technology from Gujarat University, India. Vandana has also coauthored Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation.
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