Setting Up Liferay Portal on tc Server 2.9.3

This guide is on how to set up tc Server 2.9.3.

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1. Download the tc Server zip file called: vfabric-tc-server-standard-2.9.3.RELEASE.zip.
2. Open a command prompt to /../vfabric-tc-server-standard-2.9.3.RELEASE. This location will be shortened to {tc Server Home}
3. Run the command: mkdir servers
4. Run the command: tcruntime-instance.bat|sh create -i servers lp-server
5. Navigate to {tc Server Home}/servers/lp-server/conf. Open the **wrapper.conf** file.
6. Change '-Xmx' to 1024m in wrapper.java.addition.8.
7. Change change `-Xss` to 512k in wrapper.java.addition.9.
8. Add wrapper.java.additional.10="-XX:MaxPermSize=256m".
9. Add wrapper.java.additional.11="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8".
10. Save and close the file.
11. In the {tc Server Home}/servers/lp-server/conf, create a new folder called **Catalina**.
12. In the {tc Server Home}/servers/lp-server/conf/Catalina, create a new folder called localhost. In the {tc Server Home}/servers/lp-server/conf/Catalina/localhost, create a new file called ROOT.xml.
13. In ROOT.xml, enter the following:

    <Context path="" crossContext="true">
    
    			<!-- JAAS -->
    
    			<!--<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JAASRealm"
    			appName="PortalRealm"
    			userClassNames="com.liferay.portal.kernel.security.jaas.PortalPrincipal"
                roleClassNames="com.liferay.portal.kernel.security.jaas.PortalRole" />-->
    
    			<!-- Uncomment the following to disable persistent sessions across reboots. -->
    
               <!-- Uncomment the following to not use sessions. See the property "session.disabled" in portal.properties. -->
    
              <!-- <Manager className="com.liferay.support.tomcat.session.SessionLessManagerBase" /> -->
    </Context> 			
    

14. In the {tc Server Home}/servers/lp-server/conf folder, open the server.xml file.
15. Add URIEncoding="UTF-8" to the Connector property so it looks like this:

    <Connector acceptCount="100"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               executor="tomcatThreadPool"
               maxKeepAliveRequests="15"
               port="${bio.http.port}"
               protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"
               redirectPort="${bio.https.port}"
    	   URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
    

16. Unlike Tomcat where dependencies are deployed to the 'lib/ext' folder, dependencies for tc Server are deployed directly in the 'lib' folder. Copy all the following .jars:
    • activation.jar
    • ccpp.jar
    • hsql.jar
    • jta.jar
    • jutf7.jar
    • mail.jar
    • mysql.jar
    • persistence.jar
    • portal-service.jar
    • portlet.jar
    • postgresql.jar
    • script-10.jar
17. Next, configure the {tc Server Home}/servers/lp-server/bin/setenv.bat|setenv.sh. Add this property to the end of the file: set JVM_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xmx1024M -Xss512K -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
18. We are now ready to deploy the portal. Navigate to {tc Server Home}/servers/lp-server/webapps/ROOT. Delete any default content in this folder. Unzip the Liferay .war file here. Note that the .war file can come from either the packager or by running **ant -f build-dist.xml zip-portal-war** in the source folder.
19. Set the portal-ext.properties parallel to the /lp-server inside the {tc Server Home}/servers folder. Configure the portal-ext.properties to run on MySQL.
20. Enable or disable the startup wizard in the portal-ext.properties.
21. In the /bin folder, enter: tcruntime-ctl.bat run |./tcruntime-ctl.sh run
22. To shut down, CTRL + C will suffice