Modify Global Properties File - Alfresco Content Services - 23.4 - 23.4 - Ready - Alfresco - external

Alfresco Content Services
Platform
Alfresco
Product
Alfresco Content Services
Release
23.4
License
Note: For edits to the alfresco-global.properties file, when specifying paths for Windows systems, you must replace the Windows path separator characters with either the \\ separator or the forward slash / Unix path separator.

If you’re installing manually, then you can use the alfresco-global.properties.sample file. This sample file contains some of the common properties required for setting up Content Services.

  1. Locate and open the alfresco-global.properties.sample file.

    For example, for Tomcat, browse to the $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/ directory.

    This file contains sample configuration settings. To enable or modify a setting, remove the comment (#) character. Comment out all the properties you don’t want to modify by adding the “#” character.

  2. Ensure that the dir.root= property points to a root location for the storage of content binaries and index files.

    For example: dir.root=/var/data/alfresco/alf_data

    Note: It’s strongly recommended that you always set this value to an absolute file system path as shown above. This ensures that no matter how the instance is started, it will always find the directories where content has previously been written.
  3. Set the database connection properties.
    Property Description
    db.username=alfresco Specifies the name of the main database user. This name is used to authenticate with the database.
    db.password=alfresco Specifies the password for the database user. This password is used to authenticate with the database.

    You can set additional database properties, such as db.port and db.host.

  4. Configure your supported database for use. See Databases.
  5. Select a JDBC driver used with each connection type.
  6. Add your global custom configurations.
    Note: Ensure that you use single-byte character sets (ISO-8859-1 Latin 1) in your alfresco-global.properties settings, particularly the system.webdav.rootPath setting. If you require other characters, you can use Unicode equivalents. For example, if your root path in Cyrillic was фолдер, which means folder in English, a valid value would be: 
     system.webdav.rootPath=/app:company_home/cm:\u0444\u043E\u043B\u0434\u0435\u0440
  7. Save your file without the .sample extension.
    You need to restart the server for the configuration changes to take effect.