Alfresco WCM 500page Error

I installed Alfresco WCM on an existing 3.4.1 server a couple of days back. Everything worked fine. However, it threw me an "500page" error today. I finally figured out what was going on.

My Alfresco installation is on a VirutalBox VM with dynamic IP assigned every time the VM is started. When it was running last time, I went to the site in Share, Web Quick Start > Document Library > Alfresco Web Quick Start, and changed the hostname in metadata for Quick Start Editorial. I used the IP address at that time. Since the IP has changed, it could not find the hostname+port+page anymore and thus the 500 page error. It is back working after I updated the hostname with the current IP.

I think the assumption is that you should run Alfresco WCM on a fixed IP. Oh well, this is just my sandbox and I can live that inconvenience.