Configuration Alfresco Content Service

Alfresco Content Services is a java/spring based product which is designed to manage content of enterprise (mainly documents). It manages documents with all its metadata and controls its access to users

Unzip the package

Unzip files on home directory to alfresco-content-services-23.2.1 directory

$ cd
$ unzip alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-23.2.1.zip -d acs-community-23.2.1

Keystore

Copy contents from keystore to /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/alf_data/keystore/

• CreateSSLKeystores.txt: Contains instructions to create an RSA public/private key pair for the repository with a certificate that has been signed by the Alfresco Certificate Authority (CA).

• generate_keystores.sh: Shell script file for generating secure keys for SOLR communication.

• readme.txt: Text file containing information about other files in a directory.

# CreateSSLKeystores.txt
$ sudo cp /home/ubuntu/acs-community-23.2.1/keystore/CreateSSLKeystores.txt /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/alf_data/keystore/

# generate_keystores.sh
$ sudo cp /home/ubuntu/acs-community-23.2.1/keystore/generate_keystores.sh /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/alf_data/keystore/

# readme.txt
$ sudo cp /home/ubuntu/acs-community-23.2.1/keystore/readme.txt /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/alf_data/keystore/

# Update the file permissions

# Change group
$ sudo chgrp -R Alfresco /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/alf_data/keystore

# Change mode
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/alf_data/keystore

# Check permissions
$ ls -lt /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/alf_data/keystore/
total 15
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root Alfresco  580 Apr 24 03:35 readme.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root Alfresco 5345 Apr 24 03:35 generate_keystores.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root Alfresco 6417 Apr 24 03:35 CreateSSLKeystores.txt

Copy alfresco-share-services.amp

alfresco-share-services.amp: Alfresco share service module containing extensions for search, datalist, sample sites patch etc.

# Copy file
$ sudo cp /home/ubuntu/acs-community-23.2.1/amps/alfresco-share-services.amp /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/amps/

# Update the file permissions

$ sudo chgrp -R Alfresco /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/amps 
$ sudo chgrp -R Alfresco /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/amps_share
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/amps
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/amps_share

Scripts and Libraries

Copy the contents from acs-community-23.2.1/bin into /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/bin directory

• alfresco-mmt.jar: Alfresco Module Management Tool (MMT), A java library which supports alfresco module package installation/uninstallation/listing and preview operations etc.

• apply_amps.sh: Utility to install amps kept in amps and amps_share directory. It will install amps related to alfresco on alfresco.war (keeps the backup of original war file) and amps related to share on share.war (keeps the backup of original war file)

• clean_tomcat.sh: Shell script for cleaning out temporary application server files from previous installations.

# Copy alfresco-mmt.jar
$ sudo cp /home/ubuntu/acs-community-23.2.1/bin/alfresco-mmt.jar /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/bin/

# Copy apply_amps.sh
$ sudo cp /home/ubuntu/acs-community-23.2.1/bin/apply_amps.sh /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/bin/

# Copy clean_tomcat.sh
$ sudo cp /home/ubuntu/acs-community-23.2.1/bin/clean_tomcat.sh /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/bin/

# Update the directory permissions

# Change group
$ sudo chgrp -R Alfresco /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/bin

# Change mode
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/bin

# Check permissions
$ ls -lt /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/bin/
total 2083
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root Alfresco     371 Apr 24 04:26 clean_tomcat.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root Alfresco    2183 Apr 24 04:26 apply_amps.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root Alfresco 2238309 Apr 24 04:26 alfresco-mmt.jar

Licenses

It contains files that have information about license terms used by alfresco including all third party licenses.

# Copy licenses directory
$ sudo cp -R /home/ubuntu/acs-community-23.2.1/licenses/* /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/licenses/

# Update the directory permissions 
$ sudo chgrp -R Alfresco /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/licenses

# Check permissions
$ ls -lt /usr/local/alfresco-community23x/licenses/
total 27
drwxr-xr-x 2 root Alfresco    83 Apr 24 04:34 3rd-party
-rw-r--r-- 1 root Alfresco  7637 Apr 24 04:34 license.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root Alfresco 11152 Apr 24 04:34 notice.txt

Reference

• Configure ACS repository