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Alfresco for Administrators

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Product type Book

Published in Apr 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782175032

Pages 188 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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System Administration

Author (1):

Vandana Pal

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Alfresco for Administrators

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Understanding Alfresco

2. Setting Up the Alfresco Environment

3. Alfresco Configuration

4. Administration of Alfresco

5. Search

6. Permissions and Security

7. High Availability in Alfresco

8. The Basics of the Alfresco Content Store

9. Maintenance and Troubleshooting

10. Upgrade

Index

Installing Solr

Solr can be installed via the Alfresco installation wizard within Alfresco. In this case, both Alfresco and Solr will be in the same application server. By default, Solr4 will be enabled. But if you are installing Alfresco in an application server other than Tomcat, you have to install Solr4 separately on Tomcat. Also, as the indexing process is memory- and CPU-intensive, it is always recommended to install Solr on a different machine to Alfresco.

Let's go through the steps to install Solr as an independent application on a Tomcat server.

Before we dive into the detail, let's consider that ALFRESCO_HOME and SOLR_HOME are two directories where Alfresco and Solr are installed. Both are installed in separate Tomcat servers.

For example:

ALFRESCO_HOME = /opt/alfresco
SOLR_HOME = /opt/solr

The installation steps are as follows:

Install the Tomcat application based on the Alfresco supported platform. Download the Tomcat core binary distribution from http://tomcat.apache.org.Unpack...

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Authors (1)

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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