Configuration of Attachments on AIX Environment

 Configuration of Attachments

Important Note:

i)                    It is case sensitive.

ii)                  Careful while giving forward and backward slashes i.e. / and \ respectively.

Following steps are required to configure the attachments.

1. Create a folder as represented in the below table.

Folder Name	Location
DOCLINKS	/doclinks
ATTACHMENTS	/doclinks /ATTACHMENTS

2. We have to edit httpd.conf file which is @ location

/WebSphere/HTTPServer/conf

i)                    Backup the httpd.conf file.

ii)                  Open the file with  text editor  and find the following context:

                        

              # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.

iii)                Change the value to /doclinks

        When you change the value it should look like

           <Directory /doclinks >

iv)                Find the context given below

                  #

                  # Document Root: The directory out of which you will serve your

                  # documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but

                  # symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.

            #

           Change the value to   /doclinks

      When you change the value it should look like

    

            DocumentRoot "/DOCLINKS"

v)                  Save and Close the file.

vi)                Restart HTTP server. (Go to Services  and restart the service IBM HTTP server 6.1)

vii)              To verify whether it is configured correctly  make use of this steps

                a). Create a file test.txt   @ the location  /doclinks

                b). Open the browser and type the following url and press enter.

                    http://localhost/test.txt

                              You can see the contents of test.txt file.

3. Editing Default File Paths in the System Properties Application

i)                    To edit the paths you must have privileges. So login with “maxadmin” user.

ii)                  Go to System Configuration > Platform Configuration > System Properties.

iii)                Follow the table to complete the 3^rd step. Remember the Notes provided above. When you change the value it should look like as shown in the table.

Property	Value to be set
mxe.doclink.doctypes.defpath	/doclinks
mxe.doclink.path01	/doclinks = http://172.16.0.00/
mxe.doclink.doctypes.allowedFileExtensions	pdf,zip,txt,doc,docx,dwg,gif,jpg,csv,xls,xlsx,ppt,xml,xsl,bmp,html
mxe.doclink.doctypes.topLevelPaths	/doclinks
mxe.doclink.maxfilesize	10
mxe.doclink.multilang.aix.websphere	true

iv)                Restart the Application Server.

 4. Editing Default File Paths in Related Applications

i)                    Login to Application with user “maxadmin “.

ii)                  Open an application that has the Attached Documents action.

iii)                From the Select Action menu, select Attachments Library/Folders à Manage Folders.

iv)                Change the value as shown in the table.

Document Folder	Default file path
Attachments	/doclinks/ATTACHMENTS
Diagrams	/doclinks/DIAGRAMS
Images	/doclinks/IMAGES

v)                  Click ok.

vi)                Restart the Application Server.

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