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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Context initialization failed errors on deploying custom layout template

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Kanchan Bisht

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Issue

  • Cannot deploy custom layout template to the portal
  • Steps to reproduce:
    Startup
    Deploy the attached custom layout template
    Expected Behavior: It should be deployed successfully.
    Observed Behavior: The following error is thrown in the server console  
    • INFO [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][AutoDeployDir:212] Processing custom-layout-layouttpl.war  
      INFO [fileinstall-directory-watcher][BaseAutoDeployListener:34] Copying layout templates for /opt/dev/projects/github/liferay-portal/bundles/tomcat-9.0.83/temp/20231218215714420AEMYVNPH/custom-layout-layouttpl.war        
      INFO [fileinstall-directory-watcher][BaseAutoDeployListener:41] Layout templates for /opt/dev/projects/github/liferay-portal/bundles/tomcat-9.0.83/temp/20231218215714420AEMYVNPH/custom-layout-layouttpl.war copied successfully 
      INFO [fileinstall-directory-watcher][BundleStartStopLogger:68] STARTED custom-layout-layouttpl_1.0.0 [1492] 
      ERROR [fileinstall-directory-watcher][ContextLoader:313] Context initialization failed com.liferay.portal.kernel.bean.BeanLocatorException: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'configurableApplic
      ationContextConfigurator' available        at com.liferay.portal.bean.BeanLocatorImpl.locate(BeanLocatorImpl.java:96) ~[portal-impl.jar:?]  at com.liferay.portal.kernel.bean.PortalBeanLocatorUtil.locate(PortalBeanLocatorUtil.java:54) ~[portal-kernel.jar:?]  
      at com.liferay.portal.osgi.web.wab.extender.internal.PortletContextLoaderListener.customizeContext(PortletContextLoaderListener.java:194) ~[?:?]        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:400) ~[spring-web.jar:5.2.24.RELEASE]  
      at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:292) ~[spring-web.jar:5.2.24.RELEASE]        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:103) ~[spring-web.jar:5.2.24.RELEASE]  
      at com.liferay.portal.osgi.web.wab.extender.internal.PortletContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(PortletContextLoaderListener.java:115) ~[?:?]        at com.liferay.portal.osgi.web.wab.extender.internal.adapter.ServletContextListenerExceptionAdapter._initializeContext(ServletContextListenerExceptionAdapter.java:116) ~[?:?]  
      at com.liferay.portal.osgi.web.wab.extender.internal.adapter.ServletContextListenerExceptionAdapter.contextInitialized(ServletContextListenerExceptionAdapter.java:96) ~[?:?]        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor515.invoke(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.4 

Resolution

  • The observed behavior is a known regression bug of DXP 7.4 that is addressed via LPS-204310 

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