2 Bugs in a row
Tuesday, April 20th, 20101 Microsoft Office
1 Alfresco sharepoint connector.
One of our customers had decided they wanted alfresco instead of microsoft sharepoint (a very wise decision). However since alfresco is by default http and not https it would be very stupid to run it on the internet and it would probably not in sync with the contracts they sign about being confidential with customerdata. This does ask for a very simple solution: Run apache in front of tomcat, talk ajp to tomcat and serve everything over https.
This works very fine just out of the box. Even if the apache runs on a seperate machine. (Did I mention my general hate for java already). However to make sharepoint a very good sharepoint replacement you have to talk a seperate webdav/xml-rpc alike protocol that office does understand.
Alfresco coders decided that it would be too much of a hassle to put this into a nice tomcat web application talking via tomcat with the outside world. Instead they opted to create a:
Tomcat webapp that runs a webserver on it’s own on a seperate port.
If you haven’t had enought of this idea please continue reading..