CRM Image Server Setup

Setting this up was quite a pain.

RFC connections

Use SM59 to check the RFC's SAPFTP,SAPFTPA,SAPHTTP and SAPHTTPA
This transactions are suppose to work out of the box, but we had problems with them.

See notes: 164203, 455197, 544843

The main issue i had was that SAPHTTP was broken out of the box.
By running RSHTTP05 (under SE38), it reported the transaction SAPHTTP was broken. So i had to go to SM59 and delete it.
Then run RSHTTP05 again, it will recreate it correctly and the test should work.

Configuring the web/ftp server (FTP + WebDav)

We use apache / Pure-Ftpd

Apache config: add webdav section / restart apache

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www
        DavLockDB /var/lock/apache2/FTP-DAVLock
        <Directory /var/www/crmdev>
                DAV On
                AuthType Basic
                AuthName "Image server"
                AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/davusers
                <LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS>
                Require user image
                </LimitExcept>
        </Directory>

Pure-ftpd:

pure-pw useradd image -f pureftpd.passwd -u 1001 -g 1001 -d /var/www/
pure-pw mkdb

Webdav/apache and Pure-Ftpd HAVE to point to the same directory.

To help finding issues:

tail /var/log/pure-ftpd/transfer.log /var/log/apache2/*.log /var/log/messages -f

Configuring the RFC

Go to transaction SPRO, and see "Define search server relation".

Also check the RFC was created correctly:

Define the publishing target

Go to transaction SPRO and run "Set Targets for publishing catalog contents"

Also new in 2007(not on the screenshot) : go to "Maintain IMS server for Catalog Indexing" (same folder) and enter the RFC in there (ex: "TREX_RFC_TRX")