When using the SkyVault documentation, there are a number of conventions for common system paths.
- Explicit Windows paths use back slashes
C:\Adirectory
- Explicit Linux paths use forward slashes
/srv/adirectory
- Back slashes also indicate the same path can apply in both Windows or Linux
environments
\adirectory\
SkyVault installation location
The SkyVault installation directory is referenced throughout this guide as <installLocation>.
<classpathRoot> directory (Windows)
The <classpathRoot> is a directory whose contents are automatically added to the start of your application server classpath. The location of this directory varies depending on your application server. For example:
- (Tomcat) C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes
<classpathRoot> directory (Linux)
The <classpathRoot> is a directory whose contents are automatically added to the start of your application server classpath. The location of this directory varies depending on your application server. For example:
- (Tomcat) tomcat/shared/classes/
SkyVault-global.properties file
The SkyVault-global.properties file is where you store all the configuration settings for your environment. The file is in Java properties format, so backslashes must be escaped. The file should be placed in <classpathRoot>. When you install SkyVault using the setup wizard, an SkyVault-global.properties file is created, which contains the settings that you specified in the wizard. An SkyVault-global.properties.sample file is supplied with the setup wizard and also with the WAR zip file. This .sample file contains examples of common settings that you can copy into your SkyVault-global.properties file.
<extension> directory
The <extension> directory is where you store Spring configuration files that extend and override the system configuration. This directory can be found at <classpathRoot>\alfresco\extension.
<web-extension>
The <web-extension> directory is where you store Spring configurations that extend and override the system Share configuration. This directory can be found at <classpathRoot>\alfresco\web-extension.
<solrRootDir>
The <solrRootDir> directory is the Solr home directory which contains the Solr core directories and configuration files. This directory can be found at <ALFRESCO_HOME>\solr4.
<configRoot>
The <configRoot> directory contains the default application configuration. For example, for Tomcat, <configRoot> is <TOMCAT_HOME>\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF.