Regards, Ben.

When I click on this link, http://www.benh.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/surf-sample.zip
I get the “You 404’d it. Gnarly, dude” message

thanks in advance

Thanks for the article. I am still struggling with this. A few questions:
1. Are there any configs that need to be done to the Alfresco DM to allow Surf to grab webscripts?
2. Is there a good way to test if Alfresco is releasing webscripts: e.g. going to a link lik ehttp://localhost:8585/alfresco/s…… something?
3. I just pulled a new Surf and it has a config file called, web-framework-config-remote.xml. It is here, in the war file, that I am setting the remote endpoint. Do you see any problem here?
4. Is there a special way to refer to remote webscripts from the tags in the Surf templates?

Any advise is appreciated.

Thanks, Mark

Here’s how I found out. There are some sample scripts in http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/index/package/org/alfresco/sample and one of them lists AVM stores http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/sample/avm/stores

Browse through the demo store (if you’re using the default values for this example) and you’ll see the correct path.

I’ve checked the source code for products.get.js and the path is:

var path = (“/www/avm_webapps/surf/content/products/source”);

which doesn’t exist (at least in our case). I don’t have the CIFS well configured so I did a bulk import for the admin staging area (that could be the problem). The other stuff works so I assume that the problem could be that path.

The Web Script /surf/service/products/left has responded with a status of 500 – Internal Error.

500 Description: An error inside the HTTP server which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Message: Failed to load script ‘org.alfresco.web.scripts.LocalFileSystemStore$LocalFileSystemStoreScriptContent@e7b1c3′: TypeError: Cannot read property “length” from undefined (/surf-sample/sample/deploy/alfresco/site-webscripts/products.left.get.js#23)

Exception: org.mozilla.javascript.EcmaError – TypeError: Cannot read property “length” from undefined (/surf-sample/sample/deploy/alfresco/site-webscripts/products.left.get.js#23)

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If i understand you correctly, you are trying to store the SURF files within the AVM, and then deploy them to your surf application? If this is the case, this is exactly what the example above demonstrates. It seperates the two different types of content i.e. the Surf files (web scripts, templates etc) and also the typical content produced via web forms and anything else uploaded via CIFS (e.g. xml, html etc). All of these files are then deployed to the target surf app, placing the relavent files in their correct locations e..g overwriting the surf framework files and adding to the xml, html etc into the required folders.

There are two example config files located in C:\surf-sample\sample\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension. These are:

1) custom-web-framework-application-context.xml – This sets the local store i.e. where the static files are, and also the web scripts local store.

2) web-framework-config-custom.xml – this sets the alfresco repo end point however this is only required for the “products” example that connects back to the repo and loads content dynamically.

Let me know if i have mis-understood!

Regards, Ben.

So, I’ve got as far as defining an (abstract) remote store with the end point pointing to http://server/alfresco/s, api is /avmstore as per the Surf deployment configurations wiki page, and also have set the storeId to “test03–admin” (which is a web project in my Alfresco install).

Looking over my own config I seem to have covered everything – remote store set up with right endpoint, search paths and model objects have the remotestore in the relevant place (it’s the first item in the searchpaths), web project exists with the surf structire in /WEB-INF/classes/alfresco, in the admin’s sandbox. Can’t get it to work though Either it starts up fine but wont work, or it sits forever at deployment when starting Tomcat – presumably while something times out again and again.
I’m using the URL structure from the “Surf as a Preview Server” section of the wiki, where you specify storeId, user and page on the URL. Even with just http://server/alfwf/page?p=test it won’t work either, though.

The wiki is woeful at explaining around the subject, so being a non-expert I’m rather at a dead end., and hope you can shed some light on the matter.

Best,
Peter.

Try Will’s repair script to fix the association – http://wabson.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/web-script-repair-web-project/
Regards, Ben.