Alfresco (catalina.sh) Not starting at startup in Linux Server.

Our company using Alfresco and it has been installed through SVN. We are using the command catalina.sh start to start the alfresco. Our alfresco server is CentOS release 5.5 .

We need to manually start the alfresco on every reboot and it is very tedious.

To fix this issue we need to place the command (/opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin/catalina.sh start ) and the environment variables in system startup file (/etc/rc.d/rc.local) .

In our case we follow these steps:

vi /root/alfrescostart.sh

Copy and paste the below lines:
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export JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dalfresco.home=."
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_29
export MVN_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-2.2.1
export ANT_HOME=/opt/apache-ant-1.8.2
export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.20
export TOMCAT_HOME=$CATALINA_HOME
export APP_TOMCAT_HOME=$CATALINA_HOME
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$CATALINA_HOME/bin:$MVN_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH
#Command to Start the catalina at startup
/opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin/catalina.sh start

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chmod +x /root/alfrescostart.sh

Add the line “/root/alfrescostart.sh” line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Thats all!....