Install Alfresco Community 4.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 (Fixed)

This document shows how to install Alfresco 4.2 on an Ubuntu 12.10 system.  (This is an update to my prior document that had a few issues that prevented some parts of alfresco from working correctly...  Mainly renditions and thumbnails)

I am creating a virtual server for this that has 3.75 GiB of Memory

Alfresco 4.2 quick and easy auto versioning

This document goes over how to set up easy auto versioning of your documents in a folder in Alfresco share 4.2.

This solution will auto version files in a given folder.

Alfresco Cloud

A newer article on this subject has been posted at
http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2013/08/alfresco-cloud-update.html

Alfresco Cloud cloud is a service from the good people at Alfresco that gives you out of  the box alfresco share via a nicely packaged cloud service.  And the good news is you can use it for free (with a few limitations)

Sign up for the service

Alfresco cloud offers a free account with 10GiB of storage to use for life.  This is a nice place to start testing it out to see if it’s something your business want to pay to use.

Create git server on AWS cloud

I am new to the git world,  I have been using subversion for many of my past projects, so bear with me if I seem to cover rudimentary git in this document.

The goal of this document is to show you how to use cloud-init with ubuntu 12.10 to easily create a git server in the aws cloud.

Amazon AWS Ubuntu cloud-init

 Ubuntu’s cloud releases (AMIs for AWS), which are listed at http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/ [1],  include an ubuntu package called cloud-init.

Cloud-init,  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit  [2], is a tool that will run a script during the initializing of an ec2 image in the amazon cloud.   It allows for custom deployment of an AMI as it is initialized.

I think the best way to learn a tool is to start using it.

Alfresco 4.2 Desktop Sync Consumer user

This document goes over how AlfrescoSync works with a consumer user in alfresco share.

This document assumes you already know how to user AlfrescoSync.

Invite Consumer user to site

I created a new test user named patmantest that I will invite to a alfresco share site. 

I logged into my Alfreso share site as an admin and opened my share site.

Alfresco 4.2 Desktop Sync

This document shows how to install and use Desktop Sync with Alfresco 4.2.    It assumes you already have alfresco 4.2 installed on a server and running.

Desktop Sync is the equivalent of drop box, but controlled by your alfresco install.

Install Alfresco Community 4.2 on Ubuntu 12.04

This document has a few errors in it, I have made a new one that fixes the issues I found.  The updated document can be found at...

http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2013/01/install-alfresco-community-42-on-ubuntu_31.html 

I am leaving this here just for historical reasons




This document shows how to install Alfresco 4.2 on an Ubuntu 12.04 server that has java 7 already installed on its system.

The virtual machine I am using for this test has 3.75GiB of memory.

Amazon AWS Micro Instance runs out of memory with Apache/MySQL/Wordpress

Recently I set up a micro instance within the Amazon cloud to act as a Wordpress server, running Ubuntu 12.04 Server. 

A micro instance only has 613MiB of memory, which is not much in the day and age but good enough for a lightly used wordpress site.

However after setting my site up and letting it run for a few days the MySQL database, running on the same machine, shut down.   I restarted it and chalked it up as a one-time fluke.  But it did it again the next night.   I checked the server and it was not working because MySQL was down.   Everything else was just fine.   So I restarted MySQL and started investigating.

Ubuntu 12.04 Setting a Static IP

I have several virtual machines running Ubuntu at my home that have static IPs for various reasons.   Prior to Ubuntu 12.04 I would simply edit /etc/network/interfaces to something like this.

auto lo iface lo inet loopback # # auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static       address 192.168.0.100       netmask 255.255.255.0       broadcast 192.168.1.255       gateway 192.168.0.1

But in Ubuntu 12.04 this does not work, well it works but you can no longer access anything.  apt-get no longer works, ping no longer works, wget no longer works.

Move EBS AMI Between Regions

Amazon created a copy tool that is much simpler to use than this guide. 
I made another guide that goes over the new tool at

http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2013/04/copy-ami-between-regions.html

Should the new tool not work for you this older guide may be helpful



I recently had a need to move an AMI from the AWS east-1 regions to the west-2 region.

AWS does have a command line tool, ec2-migrate-image, for moving AMIs between regions, but it does not work for EBS backed AMIs (which I prefer to use)   For more information on this command line tool go to http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/ApiReference-cmd-MigrateImage.html [1]