Alfresco error when using data volume for "/alfresco/alf_data" about docker-alfresco

[mustafa-qamaruddin]

Hello,

I am having this issue when I run;

docker run --name='alfresco' -d -p 8080:8080
-v $HOME/alfresco_volumes/alf_data:/alfresco/alf_data
-v $HOME/alfresco_volumes/tomcat_logs:/alfresco/tomcat/logs
-v $HOME/alfresco_volumes/content:/content
gui81/alfresco

SEVERE: Failed to initialize end point associated with ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8443"]
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /alfresco/alf_data/keystore/ssl.keystore (No such file or directory)

Should I run the keytool machine to generate the certificate?

http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/tasks/generate-repo-ssl-keystore.html
http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/tasks/generate-repo-ca-key.html

I found also this automated script;
https://wiki.alfresco.com/images/f/f5/Create_local_keystores.sample

Regards,
Mustafa Qamar-ud-Din

[mustafa-qamaruddin]

Hello,

I received the following error after adding the keystore certifcates;

SEVERE: Error listenerStart
May 28, 2016 4:58:11 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal

ERROR [solr.tracker.AbstractTracker] [SolrTrackerScheduler_Worker-39] Tracking failed
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

Thanks for your help in advance.

[DamienMure]

I'm now using https://github.com/disaster37/rancher-alfresco, which :

• run alfresco 5.1 .(and I really need this)
• includes sames stuffs like ones in my previous pull resquests
• save/restore alf_data at first startup to prevent alfresco from the "/alfresco/alf_data/keystore/ssl.keystore (No such file or directory)" error.

Regards.

[mustafa-qamaruddin]

Dear Damien,

Thank you for sharing it with me, but it works only on Rancher stack?!

Regards,

[mustafa-qamaruddin]

Dear Damien,

I have run the following commands

First I ran a container:
$docker run --name='alfresco' -d -p 8080:8080
-v $HOME/alfresco_volumes/alf_data:/alfresco/alf_data
-v $HOME/alfresco_volumes/tomcat_logs:/alfresco/tomcat/logs
-v $HOME/alfresco_volumes/content:/content
gui81/alfresco

Then I copied the files from container to my host
$ docker cp ba79858445a641535f1863b886706c2e0b2a4575aeb7db1d0c419a49a5e56e3e:/alfresco/alf_data $HOME/alfresco_copy/alf_data

$ docker cp ba79858445a641535f1863b886706c2e0b2a4575aeb7db1d0c419a49a5e56e3e:/content $HOME/alfresco_copy/content

Then I removed the previous container and run a fresh copy using the ssl keys from the previous one
$ docker run --name='alfresco' -d -p 8080:8080 \
-v $HOME/alfresco_copy/alf_data:/alfresco/alf_data
-v $HOME/alfresco_copy/tomcat_logs:/alfresco/tomcat/logs
-v $HOME/alfresco_copy/content:/content
gui81/alfresco

I believe I made a mistake by removing the container, but what do you suggest, since I am still getting the following error:

SEVERE: Failed to initialize end point associated with ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8443"]
java.io.IOException: Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect

Regards,

[DamienMure]

Hi.
I do not have much time, so quickly:

• Yes, I'm using the other container with rancher. But you can run it as is, outside any rancher architecture (as any other container.).. You have examples in the README.
• If you really want to do it by yourself : at your first step do not use any "-v". If you use "-v $HOME/alfresco_volumes/alf_data:/alfresco/alf_data", you mount an empty directory into your alfresco...So during "docker cp", you also copy an empty directory.
  If you remove "-v", you will be able to copy to original content of alf_data to you $HOME. Then you can use "-v" during the last step to mount it into your brand new alfresco.
• But the right way to do this is by writing your own Dockerfile:
  -- FROM "gui81/docker-alfresco"
  -- move the alf_data to /somewhereelse
  -- write and add you own ENTRYPOINT.

In this custom entrypoint, you check if alf_data is here. If not, you rename "/somewhereelse" to alf_data. If yes, do nothing. Then, call for the original ENTRYPOINT(/alfresco/init.sh).

Regards.

[mustafa-qamaruddin]

Dear Damien,

Thank you for your hints;

I've written a blog about this experience, and I am looking forward to your feedback.

https://mustafamahrous.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/how-to-deploy-alfresco-using-docker-in-3-minutes/

With best regards,

[DamienMure]

I would like you to remove my name from your blog and just keep a link to this thread.

I told you how to bypass the issue, but it's not something that should be done for a production environment for many reasons I won't explain here.
You should tell on your blog that is for a ProofOfConcept, not to be used in Production.
(btw, many interesting things to read here to tune alfresco's config/arch: https://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/concepts/master-gs-intro.html)

This thread is dedicated to the issue, so I won't write any more about something else.

Thx.

[mustafa-qamaruddin]

Dear Damien,

• I have removed your name.
• I left a link to this thread.
• I added a note that this was only a proof of concept.

Thank you for your help.

P.S. If you may advise what should be used in production on a separate thread if possible, I'd be grateful.

[gui81]

I have updated this to bootstrap the data on initial install if you are mounting volumes. Try out the latest version and see if that works better for you.

Yes, this is less than ideal for production use. I don't believe Alfresco is exactly well suited for running in a container in the first place, since it requires several services to be running. It can be done, but a better deployment would not use supervisor and instead run the Docker recommended way, i.e. one service per container. There are many other considerations as well, depending on your definition of production. Nevertheless, we do run with this version in a lab setting to share documents on a very small scale instead of passing DVDs around with data.