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One of the most important pieces of information when resolving a customer issue is the portal-ext.properties file for your environment. It is now possible to upload the portal-ext.properties file before opening a ticket. This article describes what you need to know to locate your...

This article serves as a troubleshooting guide. During a thread dump, your server may hang indefinitely due to the blocking portal cache. Blocking portal cache is one of the caches that the Liferay platform uses for clustering; it is not a hibernate cache, it is what Liferay uses with...

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This article describes the scenario where the Carousel portlet (a third party app made by XTIVIA) and Ehcache...

This article addresses a situation where customers might encounter a BadPaddingException in the logs. This occurs if customers have two instances on the same domain; when a user tries to access another instance on the same domain, the exception will be thrown. 2018-05-31 03:10:32.353...

This article documents the common configuration errors you may encounter while upgrading to Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP), versions 7.0 or 7.1. Read below to discover the steps you can take to resolve these issues or avoid them altogether. Resolution Error: Upgrading to DXP...

This article documents a solution if subscribers are using an Oracle database and using JDBC_ping as the discovery protocol in a clustered environment. The issue is that the JGroup's default initialize_sql value is incompatible with Oracle. As a result, the JGROUPSPING table is not...

This article documents the new implementation of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) web services in Liferay Portal 6.1.x to test API methods. The only limitation is that to test any methods they must go through JSON. A database other than Hypersonic will be required for API testing as...

This article describes how to set up Liferay Portal 6.1 EE or Liferay Portal 6.2 EE using Windows and MySQL 5.x on Apache Tomcat 7.x. Resolution 1. Gather the Necessary Files Download and unzip the most recent supported version of Tomcat 7: http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/...

In some cases, JGroups may not get a response when trying to bind to an address. In this case, an exception like the following can be thrown: 05:50:53,559 ERROR [Framework Event Dispatcher: Equinox Container: 70881daa-756e-0016-1bfa-e3d1d4e1b271][com_liferay_portal_cluster_multiple:97]...

  This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable.  If you are working with a Liferay Portal version prior to 6.1 GA3, you can read the article here. SAML...

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Beginning in Liferay 6.0 EE SP2, the "addedbyLDAPImport" column was added to the usergroup table. The purpose of...

This article provides a brief checklist of items to run through when your server is frozen, or goes down entirely. Collecting this information before opening a support ticket is a significant step towards helping us to provide you with a quick resolution. Resolution To help our Support...

After an upgrade to Portal 6.1 EE GA1 when clicking on Control Panel > Portal settings, an error pops up: 11:53:46,699 ERROR [BeanPropertiesImpl:480] jodd.bean.BeanException: Simple property not found: hostname Invalid property: 'AccountImpl#hostname' (actual:'AccountImpl#hostname',...

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. The following comprises a list of issues that administrators have experienced in running an upgrade, along with...

Clustering with the Liferay platform can be achieved by using UDP Multicast, UDP Unicast and TCP Unicast. While Multicast is being used by default, there are cases where UDP Multicast is not available or disabled at the infrastructure level. In such cases, TCP Unicast can be used for...

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This article describes an issue inherent in the PDFBox library that causes a JVM crash upon image conversion....

This article will outline how to set up JBoss 6 EAP and deploy Liferay 6.1 EE and 6.2 EE to this application server. Resolution Before You Begin, download JBoss EAP 6.0.1 or 6.1, and install it to your preferred location, henceforth referred to as $JBOSS_HOME. Please Note: Liferay Home...

Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. Liferay is not responsible for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. Any implementation of these principles is the responsibility of the subscriber. This article outlines...

This article documents an issue where the image editor does not load on WebSphere, as well as steps to resolve the issue or avoid it altogether. This issue is caused by one of the JS files served within the JS editor having some characters that are not allowed in the default encodings....

This article documents the issues with setting up a sharded database and lists steps to resolve the issue or avoid it altogether. Resolution Error: Users are unable to create content specifically on a sharded database in Liferay DXP 7.0. Summary: Database Sharding settings in the...