Apache

Alfresco – Impact of SSL and LB on the import perf.

Have you ever wondered what is the impact of SSL communications or the impact of a specific Load Balancing mechanisms on the performance of your Alfresco environment? Alfresco (the Company at that time, before it became Hyland) ran some(…)

Hogging Threads check in Apache Tomcat

In Apache Tomcat, there is a Stuck Thread Detector Valve which can be enabled pretty easily through the Tomcat “server.xml” file. I talked about that in a previous blog already and provided an AWK parser(…)

HowTo – Detect and analyze long/stuck threads in Tomcat

Most Application Servers allow for long and/or stuck threads detection, to let you know that something is currently very slow, waiting on something or just simply stuck. On tomcat, this isn’t enabled by default, and you need to manually(…)

Alfresco Clustering – Apache HTTPD as Load Balancer

In previous blogs, I talked about some basis and presented some possible architectures for Alfresco, I talked about the Clustering setup for the Alfresco Repository, the Alfresco Share(…)

Alfresco – Unable to see the content of folders with ‘+’ in the name

As you might now if you are following our blogs (see this one for example), we are using Alfresco Community Edition internally for some years now and we also have a few(…)

Alfresco – Protect your installation with Apache httpd

In this blog, I will talk about the setup of an Apache httpd server with/without SSL configuration on top of your Alfresco installation. This way of configuring Apache httpd in front of your Web Application can be reused very easily(…)