I successfully installed alfresco-4.0.e with no problems on a linux instance.
I change the alfresco-global.properties to reflect this change.
which is of course correct, as I moved it. Why wont it pick up the new directory?
make sure that alfresco-global.properties file you have removed the extension "sample".
Also make sure those properties are not commented.
Also check if there is any other alfresco-global.property file present at any other location in your installation.
I did a quick find . -name alfresco-global.properties and did find another file in tomcat/shared/classes. I changed that as well, still no luck.
So where should the alfresco-global.properties file be? It does not seem right to me that there should be more than one "global" properties file.
Also I moved just the keystore directory back to /opt/alfresco-4.0.e/alf_data/keystore and the repository in /mnt/alf_data and everything seems to work. So my problem is solved anyway as the files will be stored on the /mnt directory.
you need to change those too.