25 Mar

Liferay 6.2 Installation Tutorial on Windows

In a previous article, we have discussed about tutorial of alfresco installation. Now,  Softbless Solutions will share more information about Liferay installation. And this article will discuss about tutorial of Liferay installation on windows operating systems:

Because Liferay is a JAVA-based engine, then we need JDK version 5 and above. In addition to the JDK we also need a database that will be used for Liferay. Liferay installation for this time, Softbless Solutions will use MySQL as the database.

The following are the step by step Liferay installation on windows by using the MySQL database:

  1. Download liferay 6.2 CE at www.liferay.com
  2. Extract liferay 6.2 CE that has been downloaded then copied to the folder C: \. So that there will be a folder structure like this:
    C:\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2
  3. Install the JDK, then setting JRE_HOME, and CATALINA_HOME

  1. Install MySQL server on Windows
  2. Create a new database schema with the name “lportal” :
    create database lportal character set utf8;

  1. Run Liferay by double clicking on the startup.bat file :
    C:\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2\tomcat-7.0.42\bin\startup.bat

  1. Tomcat will running, after that the Liferay can be accessible through a browser and as a prefix will appear "Basic Configuration" as shown below :

  1. Put the portal its name matches the name of the portal to be made. Example : Softbless
  2. Fill in the form of first name, last name, and email to the administrator
  3. Navigate to the Database setting, change the settings of the database by clicking "Change"

  1. Fill in every field for database setting. for the type of database according to the database being used, namely, MySQL. Then enter your username and password.

 

CATATAN :

Pada JDBC URL : lportal is the name of the database that will be used for Liferay

  1. Click the "Finish Configuration" if you have fill in the fields
  2. The success message will be appear, and then click Go to My Portal

  1. After that, the Agreement for term of user will be show like this picture below :

  1. Click "I Agree"

  1. Fill in the form for Password Reminder and click "Save"

  1. Liferay already installed, you can access Liferay via a web browser http: // ipserver: 8080
    Username : test@liferay.com
    Password : test

As implementation services provider for Liferay in Indonesia. Softbless Solutions has extensive experience in implementing, configuring and optimizing support for Liferay as an enterprise portal solution that is also in accordance with the vision of Softbless Solutions to become the leading provider of open source solutions and provide clients the most valuable service.

25 Mar

Alfresco 5.0 Installation Tutorial on Windows

Tutorial for installation of Alfresco Community in this time will using the latest version, Alfresco 5.0. Make sure you have the installer of Alfresco 5.0 and The following below is step by step installation of Alfresco 5.0 on Windows :

  1. Language Selection. Please select "English - English" and then click "OK"

  1. Setup Alfresco Community, click "Next" button

  1. For the Installation Type, select "Advance-configures the server ports and services Properties" and click "Next"

  1. Select the components you want to install, you may be able to follow the image below :

  1. Select the folder path where to store the installed alfresco. You can save it in C: \ Alfresco

  1. Input the database configuration as shown below, then click "Next"

  1. For Tomcat Port configuration, enter the IP address and port for tomcat. You can see the example below :

  1. Enter the port for FTP Server: 21

  1. Input port for the remote command which contains 50500 as shown below :

  1. Enter the admin password for this application

  1. Input port for SharePoint, Port: 7070

  1. Input port for OpenOffice is 8100

  1. Select the type of configuration to the startup tomcat and the database, you can choose Auto if you want to start automatically. Or Manual if you want to start services manually

  1. Preparation for the installation of Alfresco, please click "Next" to continue.

  1. After the installation is complete, click "Finish"

Alfresco version 5.0 does not use the bundled MySQL again in the installer, but have chosen PostgreSQL as its DBMS. To run the service Alfresco, click: Start - All Programs – Alfresco Community - Alfresco Community Service - Start Alfresco Community service. Or can be run the service through the Run - services.msc. There will be a service Alfresco. Right-click, start | stop | restart. After starting the service of Alfresco, then we can access the Alfresco web client from the browser with the address: http://ipserver: 8080/share

Softbless Solutions telah memiliki banyak pengalaman dan juga resources sebagai penyedia jasa implementasi Alfresco di Indonesia