aborroy / alfresco-enterprise-viewer-deployment

Reference deployment of Alfresco Enterprise Viewer (AEV) for Docker Compose

AEV Reference Deployment

This project includes a Docker Compose template to deploy Alfresco Enterprise Viewer (AEV).

• .env specifies Alfresco Content Services version to be used by Docker Compose
• compose.yaml describes Docker Compose deployment

Note this is a sample deployment designed for education purposes. When using Alfresco Enterprise Viewer in real world, additional requirements should impact in the design of the final deployment.

A valid license, named TextLicense.l4j, must be obtained to use this project. Please ensure that this file is located in the alfresco/license folder before initiating the project. If you are an Enterprise Customer or Partner, feel free to reach out to Alfresco Hyland Support to acquire the necessary license.

Prepare the environment

Download alfresco-enterprise-viewer-package-3.6.0.zip from https://community.hyland.com/Products/alfresco/release-notes/release-notes/Alfresco-Enterprise-Viewer-Releases/alfresco-enterprise-viewer-360 using customer or partner credentials for Hyland Community.

Unzip alfresco-enterprise-viewer-package-3.6.0.zip to local resources folder:

$ mkdir resources && unzip alfresco-enterprise-viewer-package-3.6.0.zip -d resources
$ ls -l resources
Alfresco Artifacts
Collaboration
Docker Compose Example
Share Artifacts
Third Party
Web Applications
empty

Copy required resources to alfresco/resources folder for Alfresco Repository configuration:

$ cp resources/Alfresco\ Artifacts/oa-alfresco.amp alfresco/resources
$ cp resources/Alfresco\ Artifacts/tsgrp-opencontent-3.6.0-for-acs7.4.amp alfresco/resources
$ cp resources/Web\ Applications/*.war alfresco/resources
$ cp resources/Third\ Party/pdfium.tar.gz alfresco/resources

Verify that a valid TextLicense.l4j file for AEV has been copied to alfresco/licenses folder

If you want to use also an ACS license, copy alfresco.lic file to alfresco/licenses folder. In addition following line from compose.yaml must be uncommented:

#      - ./alfresco/license/alfresco.lic:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/license/alfresco.lic   

Copy required resources to share/resources folder for Alfresco Share configuration:

$ cp resources/Share\ Artifacts/*.amp share/resources

Using

docker-compose up --build --force-recreate

Service URLs

Share App

• URL: http://localhost:8080/share
• Credentials: admin / admin