Result of the basic configuration will be an Alfresco system with following features:

This basic configuration starts with a fresh system installed like in installation.

Most settings and configurations can be managed outside of the alfresco.war deployment. Others must be done within that folder. This of course results in a complex update procedure because instead of simply replace the alfresco.war by a new version you have to redo all these steps inside the alfresco.war folder to continue with the same environment as prior the update.

So all changings done inside the deployment folder are maked with

The extension folder for custom extension files is
JBOSS_HOME/server/default/conf/alfresco/extension ¹⁾.
This folder is called <extension> in our Wiki. Default configuration files are located in
JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/alfresco.war/WEB-INF and
JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/alfresco.war/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco
The last one is called default in our Wiki.

If you want to overwrite existing settings in your custom configuration you have to add the replace=“true” attribute in the <config> tag.

1. Copy <default>/repository.properties to
   <extension>/custom-repository.properties
2. Copy custom-repository-context.xml.sample from the extensions folders inide the
   alfresco-community-war-2.9.0B to <extension>/custom-repository-context.xml.
3. Comment the Hibernate part inside the <extension>/custom-repository-context.xml. Otherwise the Spring Framework will not start.
4. Set root.dir to /usr/share/alfresco/.alf_data. ²⁾
5. In JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/alfresco.war/WEB-INF/classes/
log4j.properties edit the File appender definition for alfresco.log and hibernate.log to /var/log.