Create an Alfresco site programmatically in java

Question

Does anybody know how to create an alfresco site from java? I found two api calls that are supposed to create a site:

1) POST /alfresco/service/api/sites. This successfully created a site but when i try to go to the site on alfresco it gives me this error:

A server error has occured.

There are a number of reasons why this could have happened: You have attempted to access a page that does not exist - check the URL in the address bar. You have attempted to access a page that is not accessible to you, such as a private Site dashboard. A valid page has been requested but the server was unable to render it due to an internal error - contact your administrator.

Return to your dashboard page

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2) POST /share/service/modules/create-site which gives me a 401 unauthorized. I am passing in the correct alfresco authentication ticket. Does anybody have any experience creating a site programmatically? Preferably with java.

possible duplicate of Alfresco 4.2.c rest api: create site giving error — Gagravarr
@Gagravarr I am getting a 401 unauthorized. That URL creates a site, but I cant access it. From what I can see the second URL is the correct one to use but I get a 401 Unauthorized. — Will Harrison
Just a guees, but it's not maybe that after creating a site you need to add your user (guess admin) to the sites manager group? — Teqnology
Well I fought this one two weeks ago stackoverflow.com/questions/27251706/… The site needs to be created with the Share REST API, otherwise the site preset (ie dashboard etc) is not set up correctly (design flaw if you ask me). — billerby

Dairidi Dairidi · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-21T07:10:44

This works for me in python. Maybe it helps you also in Java.

First make a Post to the DoLogin Page of Share to get the JSESSIONID Cookie, the alflogin and the alfusername

h1 = httplib.HTTPConnection(127.0.0.1,8080) 
headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
pa = "username="+username+"&password="+password
h1.request("POST","/share/page/dologin",pa,headers)
response = h1.getresponse().getheaders()

Now split the response for JSESSION ID, alfusername and alflogin

cookie = jsessionid +"; "+alflogin+"; "alfusername+";"
value = {"title": "Test Side", "visibility":"PUBLIC", "description":"Add descripton here","sitePreset": "MySitePreset", "shortName": "test_side"}
headers2 = {"Content-type":"application/json", "Accept":"application/json", "Cookie": cookie}
# Get Request on any Share Page to get in touch with Share 
request.get("http://127.0.0.1:8080/share/page/user/admin/dashboard", auth=(username,password), headers=headers2)
request.post("http://127.0.0.1:8080/share/service/modules/create-site", auth=(username,password), data=json.dumps(value), headers=headers2)

That creates an Alfresco Site that also can be accessed

Create an Alfresco site programmatically in java

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