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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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The basics of Alfresco configuration


Alfresco can be easily configured based on business needs. We can enable or disable components based on certain requirements. Alfresco exposes its configuration in its properties and an .xml file, which makes it easy configurable.

All the configuration files in Alfresco are in the <configroot> and <configrootShare> directory, which are within the expanded Alfresco and Share .war based on the application server it is deployed.

For Tomcat, these directories are:

  • <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco

  • <TOMbCAT_HOME>/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco

The repository.properties file is one of the most important files which holds all the important repository configurations for a database, content store, and index. This file is moved to a JAR file in Alfresco 5.x.

Some of the important properties of Alfresco are:

  • dir.*: This is the default configuration for the content store

  • db.*: This is the default configuration for...

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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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