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Using OpenID Connect OpenID Connect is a lightweight authentication layer that enables users to authenticate using accounts they have on other systems. It's built on top of the OAuth 2.0...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Using OpenAM

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Using OpenAM Deprecated in Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 OpenAM 13 is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. OpenAM 12 and below were deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.2. Versions of...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Fast IDentity Online 2

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Fast IDentity Online 2 Available: Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ The Fast IDentity Online 2 or FIDO2 standard allows for the use of biometrics (i.e., fingerprint readers), mobile devices, or other...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Multi-Factor Authentication Checkers

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Multi-Factor Authentication Checkers Liferay DXP 7.4 ships with two additional factor checkers for Multi-Factor Authentication. Both of them are disabled by default, because they're only useful in...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Multi-Factor Authentication

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Multi-Factor Authentication Liferay DXP 7.3+ Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) provides better security by requiring users to prove their identity in multiple ways, or factors. The basic user...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Using Multi-Factor Authentication

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Using Multi-Factor Authentication To enhance your installation's security, you should disable less secure, one-factor forms of authentication, such as Basic Auth, Digest Auth, and WebDAV. You can...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

AntiSamy

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AntiSamy Liferay DXP includes an AntiSamy module that protects against user-entered malicious code. If your site allows users to post content in message boards, blogs, or other applications, these...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Setting Up Liferay

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Setting Up Liferay After installing Liferay, configure it to meet your needs. Here are common setup tasks. Setup Tasks Preconfigure the System Activate Liferay (Subscription Required) ...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Clustering for High Availability

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Clustering for High Availability Liferay DXP can scale to serve everything from the smallest to the largest web sites. Out-of-the-box, it's configured optimally for a single server environment. If...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster

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Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster A fast, easy way to learn DXP clustering is to set up a two node DXP cluster environment on one machine using Docker containers. This example creates two DXP...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Configuring Default Email Senders

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Configuring Default Email Senders By default, emails sent by Liferay DXP use the name and email address as the default admin user. This behavior can be configured for each of the different email...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes

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Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes At minimum, nodes in a DXP cluster must be configured to share the same database (or database cluster) in order to function. Optimizations discussed here...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Configuring Mail

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Configuring Mail Liferay DXP/Portal can be configured to use a mail server to send email notifications for a variety of purposes: User registration and password management, Site membership...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth

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Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth Liferay DXP 7.4 U79+/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA79+ Connect your Microsoft email service to Liferay with the use of OAuth 2.0 authorization. Note, Microsoft...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Alternative Email Configuration Methods

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Alternative Email Configuration Methods There are several methods of configuring Liferay DXP to connect to a mail server. The simplest way to get started is to configure mail using through the...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Session Replication with Tomcat

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Session Replication with Tomcat Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA92+ To ensure user session data is synchronized across all instances in the cluster, Liferay supports session replication. If one...

Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM

Configuring Cluster Link

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Configuring Cluster Link Enabling Cluster Link activates distributed caching. The cache is distributed across multiple Liferay DXP nodes running concurrently. Cluster Link uses Ehcache replication....

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Configuring Unicast over TCP

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Configuring Unicast over TCP If your network configuration or the geographical distance between cluster nodes prevents you from using UDP Multicast clustering, you can configure TCP Unicast. You...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Tuning Your JVM

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Tuning Your JVM Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning primarily focuses on adjusting Java heap and non-heap settings and configuring garbage collection. Finding settings that perform well for you...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Using a CDN

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Using a CDN A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a distributed infrastructure for caching static, file-based content. When visitors hit your site, your static content is loaded from the server...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Tuning Liferay

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Tuning Liferay There are several ways to tune Liferay's performance. This involves configuring the Java Virtual Machine and frameworks that support the Liferay application, monitoring performance...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Initial Instance Localization

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Initial Instance Localization Liferay DXP supports localization by language, time zone, and more. The English (US) language translation and GMT time zone are the defaults, but DXP has over 40...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

Publishing Tools

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Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. With each tool you can edit sites and content in a working environment...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM

Comparing Publishing Tools

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Comparing Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. Publications is recommended over Staging in nearly all use cases...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM

Publications

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Publications Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ You can use Publications to develop, track, and publish changes across your DXP instance. It works by creating a database column to determine which version of...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM

Collaborating on Publications

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Collaborating on Publications Liferay 7.4+ By default, a publication can only be accessed by its creator. However, publication creators can invite other users to view, edit, and publish their...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM

Best Practices for Managing Publications

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Best Practices for Managing Publications Efficient publication workflows in Liferay help improve collaboration, reduce errors, and streamline content delivery. Follow these best practices to...

Published Date: Mar 25, 2025 3:57 PM

Creating and Managing Publications

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Creating and Managing Publications Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ With Publications, users can create instance-scoped blocks of changes. Because each publication is instance-scoped, they can be accessed...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Enabling Publications

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Enabling Publications Available Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient and flexible way for you and your teams to develop, track, and publish changes. When enabled, Publications is...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Resolving Conflicts

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Resolving Conflicts During the publishing process, Liferay checks for conflicts between your publication and the production environment. Resolving all conflicts is necessary to complete publishing....

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Publications Permissions

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Publications Permissions 7.4+ Publications works with Liferay's permissions framework, so you can assign application and resource permissions to regular roles. You can also assign permissions...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Using the Publications Toolbar

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Using the Publications Toolbar The Publications Toolbar provides essential information for Publications users, including the name of the current publication or Production if working in the...

Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM

Making and Publishing Changes

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Making and Publishing Changes Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient way to manage changes to your Liferay instance. With it, you and your team can create and collaborate on blocks of...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Reverting Changes

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Reverting Changes Liferay Publications maintains a history of all published changes. You can use this publishing history to easily create publications that revert earlier changes to production....

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Staging

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Staging Liferay's Staging application provides a working environment for making changes to a site or asset library before publishing your changes to your live environment. With it, you can modify...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Using Publication Templates

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Using Publication Templates Liferay 7.4 U73+/GA73+ To simplify creating publications with shared details and contributors, use publication templates. You can create a list of users to invite and...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Using Workflow with Publications

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Using Workflow with Publications 7.4 U44+/GA44+ Publications is integrated with Liferay's Workflow framework, so you can continue to use custom workflows for reviewing content and pages while...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Configuring Local Live Staging

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Configuring Local Live Staging With Local Live staging, both your staging and live environments are hosted on the same Liferay server. When enabled, Liferay DXP creates a local clone of your site...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Configuring Page Publishing

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Configuring Page Publishing Staging and publishing settings control how pages and their content are published to Live, optimizing performance and ensuring consistency. These settings determine...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content

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Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content Available 7.4+ By default, only content explicitly included in a publishing process is published to Live. If desired, you can configure your...

Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM