Alfresco Community 23.x Install ActiveMQ v5.18

Alfresco Supported platforms

Here is a list of the individual components that have been through the complete Alfresco Quality Assurance and Certification activities for Alfresco Content Services 23.x.

Download

Download the ActiveMQ v5.18 from its official download page

# download
$ wget https://downloads.apache.org//activemq/5.18.4/apache-activemq-5.18.4-bin.tar.gz

Extract the package

# extract
$ sudo tar -xvf /home/ubuntu/apache-activemq-5.18.4-bin.tar.gz

# copy
$ sudo cp -R /home/ubuntu/apache-activemq-5.18.4/* /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq/

Create a system service

Create a activemq.service

/etc/systemd/system/activemq.service:

 [Unit]
 Description=ActiveMQ service
 After=network.target

 [Service]
 Type=forking
 ExecStart=/usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq/bin/activemq start
 ExecStop=/usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq/bin/activemq stop
 User=alfresco
 Group=Alfresco
 WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq/data
 Restart=always
 RestartSec=9
 StandardOutput=syslog
 StandardError=syslog
 SyslogIdentifier=activemq

 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target

Reload demons
```
 $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
```

Change the permission

 # change group
 $ sudo chgrp -R Alfresco /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq

 # change owner 
 $ sudo chown -R alfresco:Alfresco /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq/data

Start and enable ActiveMQ at boot time

 # start
 $ sudo systemctl start activemq

 # enable
 $ sudo systemctl enable activemq

 # check status
 $ sudo systemctl status activemq

 # output
 ● activemq.service - ActiveMQ Service
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/activemq.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-04-23 07:32:58 UTC; 1min 36s ago
   ...

output: /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq/data/activemq.log

 ...
 2024-04-23 07:49:02,715 | INFO  | Connector ws started | org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnector | main
 2024-04-23 07:49:02,715 | INFO  | Apache ActiveMQ 5.18.4 (localhost, ID:alfresco23x-37585-1713858542429-0:1) started | org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService | main
 2024-04-23 07:49:02,715 | INFO  | For help or more information please see: http://activemq.apache.org | org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerService | main
 2024-04-23 07:49:03,244 | INFO  | ActiveMQ WebConsole available at http://127.0.0.1:8161/ | org.apache.activemq.web.WebConsoleStarter | main
 2024-04-23 07:49:03,244 | INFO  | ActiveMQ Jolokia REST API available at http://127.0.0.1:8161/api/jolokia/ | org.apache.activemq.web.WebConsoleStarter | main

Test the web console

Enable ActiveMQ access for a local or public network

The default ActiveMQ allows on localhost only. To enable ActiveMQ access for a local or public network, edit conf/jetty.xml configuration file.

 $ sudo vim /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq/conf/jetty.xml

Search for the below configuration section.

     <bean id="jettyPort" class="org.apache.activemq.web.WebConsolePort" init-method="start">
           <!-- the default port number for the web console -->
      <property name="host" value="127.0.0.1"/>
      <property name="port" value="8161"/>
    </bean>

Change host value from "127.0.0.1"to system IP address or set 0.0.0.0 to listen on all interfaces.

Test the web console: http://server-ip:8161/. Default user name and password is : admin/admin

Error

temp dir not configured correctly: writeable=false

 java.lang.IllegalStateException: Parent for temp dir not configured correctly: writeable=false

Solution:

One of the directory named tmp is created by activemq at run time may be causing permission issues since service is started as alfresco user and not the root user, so we will create tmp directory before hand and put appropriate permissions for the safe side

 $ sudo mkdir /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq/tmp
 $ sudo chgrp -R Alfresco /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq/tmp
 $ sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/activemq/tmp

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