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Recently I was evaluating the final Alfresco Labs 3 document management nifty program, inside my little, trusty (and quite overloaded…), Ubuntu home server. I experienced a lot of problems related to the 8080 port, because Zenoss defaults to that and Alfresco wants that too.

I searched for some info on how to change alfresco default 8080 apache tomcat port and here’s what I found (from alfresco wiki page):

Edit those files and change 8080 to something else (like for example 8099):

• $ALF_HOME/tomcat/conf/server.xml
• $ALF_HOME/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/urlrewrite.xml
• $ALF_HOME/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/pagerenderer-config.xml
• $ALF_HOME/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscript-framework-config-test.xml
• $ALF_HOME/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscript-framework-config.xml
• $ALF_HOME/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/webscripts/org/alfresco/indexall.get.mediawiki.ftl
• $ALF_HOME/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-repository.properties and add an entry to overide the default: repo.remote.endpoint.url=http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service

They say the following about this mess:"It is planned for future versions to allow for central configuration of the port. It is not fixed yet, when this will be included."

I tried the modifications, but essentially I screwed my alfresco setup (more on this later maybe), so I removed and purged my alfresco.

I then decided to search for some info on how to change the default Zenoss 8080 port, and so I found that editing /usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/etc/zope.conf

and uncommenting line 840 with:

port-base 1000

1. Avoid changing Alfresco’s port mess.
2. Proceed with the Alfresco installation process.

Hope that helps!

This is service post n°1.

I’m putting this as a placeholder to remember the modifications I made today on this blog.

1. I removed my email address from the about page and added a contact page on it’s place: the reason for that is that spammers became cuter!
2. I replaced the social bookmarks plugin with the new and less obtrusive "Addthis" button: even if I’m intentionally sponsoring a brand, to me it seems more fun and BTW it’s free!

To make my contact page consistent with the template layout I added the following css code to the template’s css:

/* modifiche contact form */

#wpcf label { clear: both; display: block; float: left; width: 150px; }
#wpcf input { float: left; width: 200px; padding: 1px; margin: 2px 5px 2px 0; }
#wpcf textarea { width: 350px; height: 100px; padding: 1px; margin: 0 5px 10px 0; }
#wpcf #contactsubmit { margin-left: 250px; width: 100px; }

That’s it for now.