This topic has been up quite some times in the community (forums, blog posts etc) and the conclusion is that this should be done making a REST Post call to share and the url /service/modules/create-site
The reason is that some surf specific stuff like the site dashboard are created from the share side.
However, I have been trying this approach from different angles all day, always ending up with a HTTP 200 in the response and no share site created. Quite frustrating.
I'm running this on Alfresco Enterprise 4.2.3.3 (I suspect my problems is due to a recent change)
To strip this down to something that is easy to reproduce, I'm following Martin Bergljungs blog post on the subject (http://www.ixxus.com/blog201203creating-alfresco-share-sites-javascript/), starting with using curl like this:
create a text file with login credentials (login.txt) with the following content (change to appropriate values):
username=admin&password=admincreate a text file with the json to create a site (site_data.json)
{"visibility" : "PUBLIC","title" : "My Test Site","shortName" : "mytestsite", "description" : "My Test Site created from command line", "sitePreset" : "site-dashboard"}Get the JSESSIONID by requesting a ticket:
curl -v -d @login.txt -H "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded" http://localhost:8081/share/page/dologincopy the resulting JSESSIONID value into the following curl call:
curl -v -d @site_data.json -H "Cookie:JSESSIONID=<insert your jsessionid>" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -H "Accept:application/json" http://localhost:8081/share/service/modules/create-site
output from curl:
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8081 (#0)
> POST /share/service/modules/create-site HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: localhost:8081
> Cookie:JSESSIONID=5963B948684F562A278909AF466D2306
> Content-Type:application/json
> Accept:application/json
> Content-Length: 196
>
* upload completely sent off: 196 out of 196 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
* Server Apache-Coyote/1.1 is not blacklisted
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< Content-Language: en-US
< Content-Length: 0
< Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:57:02 GMT
<
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
The latter curl call results in a HTTP 200 as seen above, but a login to share reveals there have been no site created what so ever :(
BTW. I have disabled the CSRF Token Filter.
UPDATE: I have verified that the above approach works to create a site on Alfresco Enterprise 4.1.5 I have verified that it also fails on Alfresco Community 4.2.e This is reported as a bug: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MNT-11706
UPDATE: Since the question was not clear to a reader I have reformulated it now
UPDATE:
Following Dave Websters answer, I been trying again using the following steps, still with CSRF Token disabled:
Login:
curl -v -d @login.txt -H "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded" http://localhost:8081/share/page/dologin
Response:
POST /share/page/dologin HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.35.0 Host: localhost:8081 Accept: / Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 29
* upload completely sent off: 29 out of 29 bytes < HTTP/1.1 302 Found * Server Apache-Coyote/1.1 is not blacklisted < Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 < X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN < X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block < X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff < Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=058A52486E4EB12F94D1F95302732616; Path=/share/; HttpOnly < Set-Cookie: alfLogin=1417618589; Expires=Wed, 10-Dec-2014 14:56:29 GMT; Path=/share < Set-Cookie: alfUsername3=admin; Expires=Wed, 10-Dec-2014 14:56:29 GMT; Path=/share < Location: http://localhost:8081/share < Content-Length: 0 < Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:56:29 GMT
Took the cookie values and inserted into Daves code (with the csrf-stuff stripped out):
curl 'http://localhost:8081/share/service/modules/create-site' -H 'Cookie: JSESSIONID=058A52486E4EB12F94D1F95302732616; alfLogin=1417618589; alfUsername3=admin;' -H 'Origin: http://localhost:8081' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch' -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1700.107 Safari/537.36' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: */*' -H 'Referer: http://localhost:8081/share/page/site/erik/dashboard' -H 'X-Requested-With: application/json' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' --data-binary $'{"visibility":"PUBLIC","title":"erik'","shortName":"erik'","description":"This site is auto generated","sitePreset":"site-dashboard"}' --compressed
Still no share site generated though, and still a HTTP 200 Response. No errors in the logs either. This is driving me nuts :(
New Update (It works!):
I have now found out that you will need to "touch" a share webscript after making the login call before calling create-site with a post. I do this by making a get request in between. This somehow needs to be done to initialize the share session.
