Starting with basic configuration

Now that you have planned your implementation, you can start configuring Alfresco as per your business needs. This section covers basic configuration settings such as e-mail server, look and feel, and multilingual support, as required before using the system.

Extending Alfresco configuration

Alfresco configuration items are completely exposed as XML files, so you can override the default out-of-the-box Alfresco configuration items by customizing individual configuration items.

Alfresco ConfigRoot folder

The default configuration files for Alfresco are in the application WAR file. When the server starts, the files are expanded to <configRoot>, which is either:

JBoss: <JBOSS_HOME>/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp*alfresco-exp.war/WEBINF/classes

or

Tomcat: <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes

The default configuration files, maintained by Alfresco, are contained in the tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco folder. The repository...