Running Alfresco on your machine

Until now, we have compiled, built, and deployed Alfresco in a Tomcat server. In this recipe, we will configure the rest of the necessary settings and run Alfresco.

At the end of this recipe, you will have Alfresco running in your machine compiled, built, deployed, and executed entirely by yourself; and in your own stack.

How to do it...

There are a few settings and steps left to make sure Alfresco is running properly in the compiled stack you have just built.

1. 1. The build script has created the E:\Alfresco Tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\shared\classes\ folder for you. Here you can add your alfresco-global.properties file where you can add your custom settings.

2. 2. Create a new file in this folder named alfresco-global.properties, and add the following contents into it:

   ###############################
   ## Common Alfresco Properties #
   ###############################
   #
   # Sample custom content and index data location
   #-------------
   dir.root=./alf_data
   #
   # Sample database...