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Stage 1: Matching DXP Versions

Stage 1: Matching DXP Versions The first stage of migration is to configure the Liferay service running on Liferay Cloud to run the same version of the installation you want to migrate. This...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Stage 4: Migrating DXP Configurations and Customizations

Stage 4: Migrating DXP Configurations and Customizations Now that your database and document library are applied to your Liferay Cloud environment, the next stage of migration is to migrate your...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Stage 6: Migrating Search Configurations

Stage 6: Migrating Search Configurations Now that your web server configurations are deployed to Liferay Cloud, the next stage of migration is to migrate your search configurations. This involves...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Stage 5: Migrating Web Server Configurations

Stage 5: Migrating Web Server Configurations Now that your Liferay configurations and customizations are deployed to Liferay Cloud, the next stage is to migrate your web server configurations. This...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Stage 8: Next Steps After Migration

Stage 8: Next Steps After Migration Congratulations! If you have completed all of the previous stages in this section, then you have successfully migrated your on-premises Liferay DXP installation...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Stage 3: Uploading and Restoring the Data Backup

Stage 3: Uploading and Restoring the Data Backup With your Liferay DXP database and document library in a compatible format, the next stage is to upload them together as a single backup to Liferay...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Downloading and Uploading Backups

Downloading and Uploading Backups The Liferay Cloud backup service creates backups of an environment's database and the full contents of the Liferay instance's LIFERAY_HOME/data folder. This...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Backup Service

Backup Service Maintaining regular backups is vital to protecting your project's data. The Liferay Cloud backup service stores iterations of environment data that can be used to restore your...

Published Date: May 30, 24, 7:33 PM

Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration Liferay Cloud uses Jenkins to power its continuous integration infrastructure service. When you send a pull request or push a commit to one of your pre-configured GitHub...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Database Service

Database Service The database service is a proxy in Liferay Cloud to the Cloud SQL service in the Google Cloud Platform where the database itself resides. The database service provides tools for...

Published Date: May 26, 24, 3:57 PM

Changing Your Database Password

Changing Your Database Password Changing the database password for your database service also affects the other services that must connect to the database. Updating your database password...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Changing Your Database Username

Changing Your Database Username The database username is defined by the lcp-secret-database-user secret and can be changed at any time. When this value is changed, a user with the new credentials...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Using the Database Client

Using the Database Client Viewing data in the database is sometimes necessary to troubleshoot an issue with your application or for custom development. In order to access the database, you must use...

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Search Service (Elasticsearch)

Search Service (Elasticsearch) The Elasticsearch service is the text search engine for your Liferay DXP application. It's a private service that only communicates with the other services in your...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Using a Custom Service

Using a Custom Service In Liferay Cloud, you are not limited to the standard set of services provided out-of-the-box. You can also create and deploy a custom service to run any new processes within...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Web Server Service (Nginx)

Web Server Service (Nginx) The Nginx web server functions as a gateway from the open internet to your Liferay Cloud services. It handles all traffic from your users and acts as a high-performance...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Platform Services

Platform Services In Liferay Cloud, the processes necessary to host and maintain a site are run by platform services. Each service corresponds to a part of what is necessary to keep your...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:00 PM

Restoring Data from a Backup

Restoring Data from a Backup During project development, there may be times when you must restore data or roll back the project to an earlier state. Restoring a backup to an environment restores...

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Breaking Changes

Breaking Changes Breaking changes in the Cloud platform are changes that break or alter existing functionality of the platform's console, services, or infrastructure. These changes can impact the...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Command-Line Tool

Command-Line Tool The CLI tool can be used to view and manage your Liferay Cloud services. Once installed, you can run lcp --help in your terminal to view available actions. You can run the -v or...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Configuration via LCP.json

Configuration via LCP.json Each service in your Liferay Cloud environments has an LCP.json file that you can use to configure the service. You can configure properties like the service ID, memory,...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Defining Environment Variables

Defining Environment Variables Environment variables are a set of dynamic placeholders that can affect the way a service behaves within an environment. You can define environment variables via the...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Example Configuration Files

Example Configuration Files Different services in Liferay Cloud (such as the search and web server services) use configuration files to perform what you might be used to handling differently in an...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Liferay Cloud Data Center Locations

Liferay Cloud Data Center Locations Liferay Cloud has a variety of available, regional data centers around the world to host customer environments. Liferay SaaS Data Centers These data centers are...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Liferay Cloud Infrastructure

Liferay Cloud Infrastructure Liferay Cloud is a flexible platform that combines a collection of key components to provide a robust, reliable, and manageable Liferay DXP implementation. This diagram...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Liferay Cloud Project Changes in Version 4

Liferay Cloud Project Changes in Version 4 Several changes are made between version 3.x and 4.x of the Liferay Cloud stack, including where Docker image versions are defined for your services, the...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Liferay Cloud Version 5 Changes

Liferay Cloud Version 5 Changes Liferay Cloud version 5 comes with several changes and new features: ModSecurity Capabilities with Nginx Improved Regional Persistence Prepare and Swap Backup...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Liferay SaaS Compatibility Matrix

Liferay SaaS Compatibility Matrix Liferay DXP is the heart of Liferay SaaS, but not every DXP feature applies to Liferay SaaS. Some DXP features are not compatible, and some must be achieved via...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Upgrading to a High Availability Subscription

Upgrading to a High Availability Subscription In many cases, the standard subscription plan for Liferay Cloud is sufficient to ensure quality performance for a live project. As your needs change,...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Liferay Cloud Support

Liferay Cloud Support Liferay is committed to providing excellent service and customer experience. Liferay Cloud customers have several means to contact support, including opening a Support ticket...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Troubleshooting Tools and Resources

Troubleshooting Tools and Resources When you have an issue with your site, you need tools to diagnose and resolve technical issues quickly. Liferay Cloud provides you with tools and resources for...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Configuring Cross-Region Disaster Recovery

Configuring Cross-Region Disaster Recovery Liferay Cloud provides two ways for customers to take advantage of the Disaster Recovery (DR) procedure in the case of major incidents: Automatic Disaster...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Liferay Cloud Maintenance and Release Schedule

Liferay Cloud Maintenance and Release Schedule Liferay SaaS and PaaS both have a weekly maintenance and release schedule. Liferay Cloud uses a transparent and predictable release cadence to ensure...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Support Access

Support Access Support Access is an optional setting that expedites troubleshooting by giving Liferay engineers direct access to a Liferay Cloud project environment. Liferay Cloud administrators...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Understanding Service Stack Versions

Understanding Service Stack Versions The Liferay Cloud service stack represents the major version of all of the services in your Liferay Cloud environment. Each individual service may have a...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Support and Troubleshooting

Support and Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Tools and Resources Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs Shell Access Troubleshooting Services Disaster Recovery Overview ...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Liferay Cloud Support FAQs

Liferay Cloud Support FAQs Here are the answers to common questions pertaining to Liferay Cloud Support. Why isn't Liferay Cloud open source? Liferay is an open-source company, with open-source...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Creating Thread and Heap Dumps

Creating Thread and Heap Dumps When you are experiencing issues with your Liferay service's performance, you may need to take thread or heap dumps to help you or Liferay Cloud Support optimize your...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Disaster Recovery Overview

Disaster Recovery Overview Liferay Cloud offers two strategies for disaster recovery: Automatic and Cross-Region. Automatic Disaster Recovery Strategy Liferay Cloud performs automatic disaster...

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Enabling Glowroot on PaaS

Enabling Glowroot on PaaS Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal 7.4 GA100+ Glowroot is included with Liferay in the /opt/liferay/glowroot folder. If you're running Liferay in a clustered environment,...

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Liferay Cloud Platform Status

Liferay Cloud Platform Status The Liferay Cloud Platform is comprised of multiple systems. Users can view the status of Liferay Cloud Platform systems, incident history, and planned maintenance...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs

Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs Environment logs are crucial for diagnosing and resolving technical issues in a project. Liferay Cloud provides a variety of environment logs that users can...

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Self-Healing

Self-Healing The self-healing functionality of Liferay Cloud detects if a service or application has become unresponsive and automatically initiates procedures to recover the unresponsive service....

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Troubleshooting Services

Troubleshooting Services Services are the core of a Liferay Cloud environment. This article covers troubleshooting techniques that can be used to investigate and address issues that may arise with...

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Shell Access

Shell Access The command-line tools in Liferay Cloud contribute to the developer's workflow by delivering speed, control, traceability, scripting, and automation capabilities. Shell access makes it...

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Tuning Security Settings

Tuning Security Settings Here are a list of best practices for tightening and maintaining your Liferay PaaS project's security, including networking practices, data security, and general security...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Information Security and Liferay Cloud

Information Security and Liferay Cloud Liferay takes security on the cloud very seriously and has published the following documents on our compliance with the SOC 2 and ISO 27001:2013 standards: ...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Managing Secure Environment Variables with Secrets

Managing Secure Environment Variables with Secrets Secrets allow you to securely store variables for any environment within Liferay Cloud. Whereas any user with permission to view your Liferay...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Using SSO with Liferay Cloud

Using SSO with Liferay Cloud Customers may use their SAML 2.0 compliant single sign-on Identity Providers to authenticate users with the Liferay Cloud platform. Here is the process to enable this...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Web Application Firewall

Web Application Firewall Liferay Cloud 5.x.x Liferay Cloud includes a web application firewall called ModSecurity. It inspects requests sent to the web server against a predefined set of custom...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Deploying Changes via the Liferay Cloud Console

Deploying Changes via the Liferay Cloud Console This tutorial walks through the process of adding a portal property to the Liferay service, triggering a CI build with a pull request, and deploying...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Updating Services in Liferay PaaS

Updating Services in Liferay PaaS Liferay PaaS provides a robust framework for achieving a highly efficient Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) strategy. With Git and Jenkins...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Automatically Deploying CI Service Builds

Automatically Deploying CI Service Builds With Liferay PaaS, you can use webhooks to automatically trigger Jenkins builds for changes pushed or merged to your project's Git repository (e.g.,...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Deploying Changes via the CLI Tool

Deploying Changes via the CLI Tool With the CLI tool, you can directly deploy local project changes without triggering a Jenkins build or using the Liferay Cloud Console. This tutorial walks...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Configuring Persistent File Storage Volumes

Configuring Persistent File Storage Volumes Administrators can configure the volumes for their services in Liferay PaaS depending on their deployment type (Deployment or StatefulSet). Volumes can...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Ignoring Files and Folders

Ignoring Files and Folders Liferay Cloud allows subscribers to determine which files and folders should be ignored before deploying a service. This is done by creating a .lcpignore file and placed...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Restarting Jenkins Stages

Restarting Jenkins Stages The CI service can be configured to preserve Jenkins stashes. You can then use the stashes to restart specific stages in a Jenkins build. Preserving Jenkins Stashes Use...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM

Understanding Deployment Strategies

Understanding Deployment Strategies The deployment strategy of a service determines how new versions will be initialized. Liferay PaaS provides two deployment strategies for its services:...

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Understanding Deployment Types

Understanding Deployment Types The deployment type of a service determines many different facets of how it functions, including performance, memory usage, and access to files or volumes. Liferay...

Published Date: May 9, 24, 7:01 PM