DXP Self-Hosted Installation, Maintenance, and Administration

Installation and Upgrades Liferay DXP 7.3 and Below Liferay Commerce is a digital commerce platform built on Liferay DXP. See the prerequisites and available options for installing, deploying, and...

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3.0 Breaking Changes

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3.0 Breaking Changes This is a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay Commerce developers or Users in Commerce 3.0. We try our...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM

4.0 Breaking Changes

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4.0 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay Commerce developers or users in Commerce...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM

3.0 Release Notes

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3.0 Release Notes Release Highlights Compatibility with Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay Commerce 3.0 is compatible with the latest version of Liferay DXP. Leverage the new experience management, content...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM

Activating Liferay Commerce Enterprise

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Activating Liferay Commerce Enterprise Starting with Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3, Commerce ships with all Liferay bundles and Docker containers and doesn't require a separate installation. However, the...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM

Using the Liferay Commerce Docker Image

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Using the Liferay Commerce Docker Image The latest version Liferay Commerce is available as a docker image. Follow these steps to download the latest Docker image release of Liferay Commerce and...

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Using the Liferay Commerce Tomcat Bundle

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Using the Liferay Commerce Tomcat Bundle The Liferay Commerce bundle is available for download from the Liferay Commerce Community Downloads page. The bundle contains the latest version of Liferay...

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Maintenance Versions

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Maintenance Versions Fix Packs are released on a periodic basis and include bug and security fixes. If you are installing a fix pack to an installation that has custom code deployed, we recommend...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM

Upgrading Liferay Commerce

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Upgrading Liferay Commerce To enhance the quality of your experience with Liferay Commerce, Liferay provides periodic product upgrades with bug fixes and new features. Users should consider...

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Installing Commerce 2.1 and Below

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Installing Commerce 2.1 and Below Previous releases of Liferay Commerce required additional installation steps that are no longer necessary on Commerce 3.x and above. Prerequisites Before...

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Deploying Liferay Commerce to an Existing Liferay Installation

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Deploying Liferay Commerce to an Existing Liferay Installation This article documents how to deploy Liferay Commerce to an existing Liferay DXP instance. Because Liferay Commerce is built on...

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Starting with a Docker Image

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Starting with a Docker Image The latest versions of Liferay are available as Docker images on Docker Hub. They're in two categories: Liferay/Portal Liferay/DXP Follow the steps below to...

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Custom Code and Patch Compatibility

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Custom Code and Patch Compatibility Subscribers If you deploy code that customizes or patches your DXP 7.2 installation, you must maintain its compatibility with all patches you're using. The...

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Slimming Down Patched Installations

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Slimming Down Patched Installations Subscribers In Liferay DXP 7.2, patch information is retained in Patch Files in the installation by default. This facilitates restoring DXP to a previous patch...

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Understanding Patch Types

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Understanding Patch Types Subscribers The Liferay Support Team creates and releases fixes to issues discovered in DXP. The fixes are packaged in ZIP files referred to generally as patches. There...

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Applying a Hotfix

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Applying a Hotfix Subscribers A Hotfix is a fix or collection of fixes delivered between Updates (or between Fix Packs for versions before DXP 7.3 SP3) to address a customer's confirmed critical...

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Backing Up

Backing Up Once you have your DXP installation running, you should implement a comprehensive backup plan that accounts for unforeseen events. Backup copies are also valuable for testing updates...

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Maintaining Clustered Installations

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Maintaining Clustered Installations Setting up your Liferay DXP installation to function in a cluster provides performance and scalability improvements, but also requires additional consideration...

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Blue-Green Deployments

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Blue-Green Deployments Blue-green is a deployment technique in which you duplicate your production environment (the blue environment) and modify the duplicate (the green environment) with software...

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Performing Rolling Restarts

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Performing Rolling Restarts The rolling restart cluster maintenance process involves shutting down and updating nodes one at a time (while the other nodes are running) until they're all updated....

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Advanced Patching for DXP 7.2

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Advanced Patching for DXP 7.2 Here are the DXP 7.2 advanced patching topics: Using Slim Bundles demonstrates conserving disk space by using DXP fix pack bundles that don't include Patch Files. ...

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Using Slim Bundles

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Using Slim Bundles Subscribers Liferay DXP 7.2 Fix Packs and Service Packs are also released bundled with the Tomcat application server. They are available as traditional bundles and Slim Bundles....

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Installing Patches

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Installing Patches Subscribers The Patching Tool applies Fix Packs (including Security Fix Packs and Service Packs) for versions prior to Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3. It also applies Hotfixes for any DXP...

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Configuring the Patching Tool

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Configuring the Patching Tool Subscribers The Patching Tool can be adapted to any DXP installation. The tool's auto-discovery option is the easiest way to configure the Patching Tool. If you...

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Uninstalling Patches

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Uninstalling Patches Subscribers After you install a patch, you may decide to restore your installation to a previous patch level. Here you'll learn how to Uninstall Patches Revert (uninstall)...

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Updating Previous Versions of Liferay

Updating Previous Versions of Liferay Staying current with updates gives you the best security and quality. Security Updates are releases that address the latest security issues immediately. ...

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JVM Configuration

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JVM Configuration As of Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA125+, Liferay DXP/Portal requires a Java JDK 17 or 21 (prior versions support JDKs 8 and 11) with specific JVM option settings. There are also...

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Activating Liferay DXP

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Activating Liferay DXP Subscription Required Liferay DXP is activated using an XML (.xml) activation key. It specifies your DXP subscription terms or trial agreement. When you run Liferay DXP for...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Docker

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Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Docker The Liferay Docker container has tools for maintenance and troubleshooting out-of-the-box. You can set various environment variables to modify settings...

Published Date: Aug 16, 2024 3:43 PM

Configuring a Database

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Configuring a Database By default for demonstration purposes, Liferay DXP/Portal is configured to use an embedded HSQL database. Beyond demonstration purposes, we recommend using a full-featured,...

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Installation and Upgrades

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Installation and Upgrades

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Installing Liferay

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Installing Liferay Liferay runs on an application server. There are three ways to host Liferay: Using a Docker container Using a Liferay Tomcat bundle, on premises On a supported application...

Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM

Installing a Liferay-Tomcat Bundle

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Installing a Liferay-Tomcat Bundle The Tomcat Bundle includes the Apache Tomcat application server with Liferay DXP/Portal pre-deployed. It's the easiest, fastest way to install Liferay on...

Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM

Installing on WebLogic

Installing on WebLogic If you are using WebLogic as your application server, it is highly recommended to install DXP to a WebLogic Managed server. A managed server can start and stop DXP quickly...

Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM

Installing on WebSphere

Installing on WebSphere Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 or below Compatibility with IBM WebSphere application server has been removed in 2024.Q2 and later releases. Installing Liferay DXP on...

Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM

Installing on JBoss EAP

Installing on JBoss EAP Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring JBoss, and deploying DXP on JBoss. You must also configure your database and...

Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM

Installing on Tomcat

Installing on Tomcat Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the fastest way to get started using Liferay DXP. This article is for users who want to have full control over their Tomcat...

Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM

Installing on WildFly

Installing on WildFly Installing on WildFly requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring WildFly, and deploying DXP on WildFly. You must also configure your database and...

Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM

Running Liferay for the First Time

Running Liferay for the First Time Once you've installed Liferay DXP/Portal and configured a database for it, it is ready to run. Start the Server Run the startup script bundled with your...

Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM

Container Lifecycle and API

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Container Lifecycle and API At a high level, the container starts Tomcat with Liferay deployed on it. Additionally, however, the container entry point provides an API for executing these use cases:...

Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM