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In addition to SaaS and PaaS deployment approaches for Liferay DXP, you can also opt to self-host Liferay DXP. Self-hosting gives you flexibility to deploy Liferay DXP on-premises or to a cloud computing provider of your choice, giving you complete control over deployment, infrastructure, and maintenance.

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Installation and Upgrades
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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...
3.0 Breaking Changes
Official Documentation
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...
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...
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...
Activating Liferay Commerce Enterprise
Official Documentation
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...
Using the Liferay Commerce Docker Image
Official Documentation
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...
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...
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...
Upgrading Liferay Commerce
Official Documentation
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...
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...
Deploying Liferay Commerce to an Existing Liferay Installation
Official Documentation
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...
Starting with a Docker Image
Official Documentation
Starting with a Docker Image The latest versions of Liferay are available as Docker images on Docker Hub, under Liferay/DXP. Follow the steps below to download, launch, and begin touring the...
Custom Code and Patch Compatibility
Official Documentation
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...
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...
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...
Backing Up
Official Documentation
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...
Maintaining Clustered Installations
Official Documentation
Maintaining Clustered Installations Setting up your Liferay DXP installation to function in a cluster provides performance and scalability improvements, but also requires additional consideration...
Blue-Green Deployments
Official Documentation
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...
Performing Rolling Restarts
Official Documentation
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....
Advanced Patching for DXP 7.2
Official Documentation
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. ...
Using Slim Bundles
Official Documentation
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....
Installing Patches in Earlier Versions
Official Documentation
Installing Patches in Earlier Versions 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...
Configuring the Patching Tool
Official Documentation
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...
Uninstalling Patches
Official Documentation
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)...
Updating Previous Versions of Liferay
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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. ...
Reference
Official Documentation
Reference When installing Liferay, you must take into consideration the specifics of your environment. These topics help you integrate Liferay into your existing environment and aid in...
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...
Activating Liferay DXP
Official Documentation
Activating Liferay DXP Starting with the 2026.Q1 release, all Liferay DXP installations—including trial and free-tier environments—require an XML (.xml) activation key to enable core features and...
Upgrading Liferay
Official Documentation
Upgrading Liferay Liferay is continuously being enhanced with new features as new versions are released. To access these features in your current project, you must upgrade your Liferay instance to...
Preparing for an Upgrade
Official Documentation
Preparing for an Upgrade Preparation and planning may be of little consequence for small, casual installations but is mandatory for large enterprise-level installations. There are specific...
Post-Upgrade Considerations
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Post-Upgrade Considerations After upgrading the database, you should configure Liferay for production again and check up on feature changes that might affect your Liferay instance. Re-enable...
Troubleshooting Upgrades
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Troubleshooting Upgrades Liferay has many out-of-the-box tools and features to identify and solve issues that may arise when performing an upgrade. To troubleshoot, you can upgrade modules...
Upgrading the Database
Official Documentation
Upgrading the Database Liferay's tools and instructions facilitate upgrading DXP and Portal environments safely and quickly. Non-clustered environments that have small data sets, can be upgraded...
Updating Customizations
Official Documentation
Updating Customizations Plugins (e.g., themes, apps, and customizations) you've developed must be adapted to the new Liferay version. This can be as simple as updating dependencies or updating code...
Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Docker
Official Documentation
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...
Configuring a Database
Official Documentation
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,...
Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrades
Official Documentation
Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrades Liferay's flexibility makes it possible to host it in any way you choose: on any Kubernetes-based cloud platform via Helm charts and Terraform scripts, on...
Installing Liferay On A Local Server
Official Documentation
Installing Liferay On A Local Server Liferay runs on an application server. There are three ways to host Liferay on a local machine: Using a Docker container Using a Liferay Tomcat bundle On a...
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...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebSphere
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions 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. ...

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