I've dedicated some serious hours to installing and deploying Alfresco on a MediaTemple (dv) VPS. The result has been a revelation of sorts. It's the big time for open source enterprise content management (ECM) and there's no going back.
Alfresco is like having your own personal cloud-based Google Docs to customize and host as many secure accounts as you like. While set up and configuration are not a cakewalk, it can be done. I took some decent notes on the process, so I will check back in to detail the process of configuring MediaTemple's vps environment.
In particular, I will show a method to set up a new JDK, fine tune Plesk and the Apache environment, and finally modify some scripts in Alfresco with the result of a successful java build.
That aside, the Java EE with Alfresco is a beast on memory. If there is any hidden cost on running the community edition of Alfresco, that may be it.
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Please share how you set this up. I'm working on setting up Alfresco in the same environment.
Hi it would be great if you could share the how-to.
Thanks!
Thanks for asking for an update. Ultimately I decided to discontinue MT and move to a barebones server environment. It was my experience that Plesk, which MT customarily loads Plesk as a GUI convenience and alternative to CLI simply worked against the command line driven workflow necessary to set up complex apps like Alfresco. I would highly recommend a lean and mean barebones GNU/Linux server, and you will find it much easier to succeed with Alfresco. I use Slicehost currently. Good luck!
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