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公開されました Sep. 10, 2025

Deploy Liferay DXP 7.4 as a Service

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Santhosh Kumar

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Issue

  • How do you deploy Liferay as a service in Linux?

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.4
  • Quarterly Release

Prerequisites

  • Need Root user level.

Resolution

  • Create liferay.service file as root user in /usr/lib/systemd/system/
  • Paste the below content in liferay.service file

[Unit]

Description=Liferay Application Service

After=network.target

[Service]

Type=forking

User=liferay

Environment=JAVA_HOME=/home/liferay/zulu11.62.17-ca-jdk11.0.18-linux_x64

Environment=CATALINA_PID=/home/liferay/liferay-dxp-7.4.13.u67/tomcat-9.0.71/temp/tomcat.pid

Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/home/liferay/liferay-dxp-7.4.13.u67/tomcat-9.0.71

Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/home/liferay/liferay-dxp-7.4.13.u67/tomcat-9.0.71

Environment=CATALINA_TMPDIR=/home/liferay/liferay-dxp-7.4.13.u67/tomcat-9.0.71/temp

Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.locale.providers=JRE,COMPAT,CLDR -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Duser.timezone=GMT -Xms8g -Xmx8g -XX:MaxNewSize=2g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1g -XX:MetaspaceSize=1g -XX:NewSize=2g -XX:SurvivorRatio=16 -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=64m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=96m -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=50 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=15'
ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/liferay/liferay-dxp-7.4.13.u67/tomcat-9.0.71/bin/startup.sh

ExecStop=/bin/bash /home/liferay/liferay-dxp-7.4.13.u67/tomcat-9.0.71/bin/shutdown.sh

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target
  • Run the below commands one by one to enable Liferay as a service
    • systemctl daemon-reload
    • systemctl enable liferay 
    • systemctl start liferay

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