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UpgradeDDMFormDocumentLibraryFields upgrade step fails due to high number of DDM entries

Issue You might encounter a behavior where a race condition occurs due to the high number of DDM entries in your environment: 2021-03-18 09:54:44,010 INFO [Portal Dependency Manager Component Executor--1][UpgradeProcess:93] Upgrading...

Error when deserializing a session

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Issue You might get an error when trying to deserialize a session, which looks similar to this: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error deserializing Session [2522563CC05A5789E25189BD49FFB38C]...

Fail to upgrade to fixpack dxp-8 or higher due to duplicate key error

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Issue When trying to upgrade Liferay DXP 7.2 to fixpack dxp-8 or higher, the process fails due to the following error: ERROR [Portal Dependency Manager Component Executor--1][UpgradeStepRegistratorTracker:184] Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.asset.display.page.service...

Password Policies is inaccessible after upgrading from 6.2 to DXP 7.2 - workaround without rolling back to 6.2

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Issue After upgrading from 6.2 to 7.2, navigating to Control Panel > Users > Password Policies shows a UI error "Password Policies is temporarily unavailable", and an error is thrown in the logs: ERROR [https-jsse-nio-8441-exec-4][PortletRequestDispatcherImpl:304] Unable to dispatch...

Auto Upgrade in DXP 7.3 and Above

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Issue Starting from Liferay 7.3, new upgrades for modules won't run automatically on startup by default. Resolution The following options are available to run the upgrades we may include in fix/service packs: Recover the old behavior with the property upgrade.database.auto.run set to...

Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint on startup after DB upgrade

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Issue After successfully upgrading your DB with the db-upgrade tool you might face a similar error to the following one on fresh startup:...

Warnings get thrown while attempting to upgrade Lock_ table

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Issue Several warnings get thrown, while the migration tool is trying to upgrade Lock_ table. WARN [main][UpgradeProcess:446] Attempting to upgrade table Lock_ by recreating the table due to: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server...

Upgrade from Liferay DXP 7.2 FP5 to Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1 fails

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Issue When running the DB upgrade process from Liferay DXP 7.2 FP5 to Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1, it fails due to Duplicate column name 'defaultVirtualHost':...

Groovy Script for deleting users from the database

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Directly modifying the database is not advised because we are unable to provide assistance regarding the damage it might do. The suggested approach in these cases is a groovy script that uses Liferay's API. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Here is a...

How-To Generate a HAR file for Liferay Support

HTTP Archive (HAR) files are a format used to track information between a user's browser and site. It can be used to identify performance issues such as slow load times, page renders, or other bottlenecks. This is due in part, because the file tracks the load of resources and how long...

ETAG response header is missing

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Issue ETAG response header is missing on a page. Environment DXP 7.1 Resolution If a page contains at least one non-cacheable portlet, - such as Asset Publisher -, the ETAG response header is not added by design. The condition whether a portlet is cacheable or not is determined by...

Staging Publishing Takes a Long Time

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Issue Publishing from Staging takes a very long time Staging performance issues when publishing content Environment Liferay Staging Resolution The most common cause of this is trying to publish large amounts of data at a time. Best Practice is to "publish small, publish often". Don't...

Title/Description truncated during upgrading to Liferay 7.1+

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Issue Receiving warnings in the log during the upgrade process about truncated titles/descriptions for certain articles. Example: WARN [ForkJoinPool-5-worker-2][UpgradeJournalArticleLocalizedValues:192] Truncated the description value for article 12345 because it is too long WARN...

ORA-01408 exception when upgrading custom Service Builder module

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Issue Running g! upgrade:check it turns out that a component was not migrated successfully, the output is for example: There is an upgrade process available for ServiceBuilder.service from 0.0.0 to 1.0.0 Upon executing the upgrade, a similar error appears:...

Upgrade from 6.2 to DXP fails with IBM-specific AESSecretKey error

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Issue Upgrade from 6.2 to DXP fails with IBM-specific AESSecretKey error, when a user was using IBM JDK for the 6.2 environment. 2020-01-08 13:00:49.267 ERROR [main][Base64:343] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.ibm.crypto.provider.AESSecretKey...

How to identify the filename for a System Settings configuration file

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Issue This article documents how to determine the filename that should be used for a Systems Settings configuration file (.config) that can be inserted into $LIFERAY.HOME/osgi/configs. Why? The creation of System Settings .config files permits you to transfer configurations between one...

Important Changes in Fix Pack Release Notes

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Issue Some fix packs cannot be reverted or may have hard limits on which versions that the patch level can be reverted to. The reason why a rollback option is unavailable is due to database schema updates, plugin updates, or other changes that are incompatible with an earlier fix pack...

Different Browser Cache Behaviour on HTTPs Protocol in Google Chrome

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Issue Not all of the static requests are cached in Google Chrome, when you follow this documentation to set up HTTPs: Setting Up HTTPs on Tomcat Reproduction steps: Set up the portal as per attached documentation Access the home page over 8443 port and observe the network tab in chrome...

Upgrading from Liferay DXP 7.1 to 7.2

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This paper is a high-level overview of the effort involved in moving from Liferay DXP 7.1 to 7.2. It contains an upgrade checklist, the upgrade steps, and what to do after a successful upgrade. The paper is available for download here., content:...

Liferay DXP Feature Comparison

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Each version of Liferay improves on the features and functionality of previous versions. Since the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 EE, the Liferay platform has continued to evolve to cover new use cases that digital businesses face everyday. This whitepaper gives a comparison of the...

Benchmark Study of Liferay DXP 7.2

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This whitepaper is a benchmark study of Liferay Digital Enterprise 7.2 and describes optimal configuration, settings, and the methodology used for this study. The whitepaper also contains the results based on the scenarios used. The paper is available for download here., content:...

Blogs Image Properties Moved to OSGi Config

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Issue After installing 7.2 fix pack 1 the blogs.image.max size and blogs.image.extentions settings do not persist. Resolution The blogs.image. portal properties have been modularized and need to be set in the Control Panel or with a .config file. The portal properties will no longer...

Portal has upgraded successfully and NullPointerException is thrown with the server startup

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Issue Successfully upgraded the Liferay portal from 6.2EE to DXP 7.1 GA but the server is not started and thrown the NPE Null pointer Exception: 2019-09-13 01:11:59.750 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-1][MainServlet:1225] com.liferay.portal.kernel.events.ActionException:...

After upgrading to Liferay 7.1+, guest users cannot see some web contents

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Issue After upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.1+, guests users cannot see some web contents. This is also reproduced for users that aren't members of one site. They cannot see web contents that belong to that site. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ upgraded from Liferay 7.0 or 6.x Resolution The...

How to resolve deployment issues following the installation of Fix Pack DXP-12 for Liferay DXP 7.1

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Issue Please bear in mind that special considerations should be taken after applying the Fix Pack 12 (DXP-12). After the installation of DXP-12, it has been reported that deployment errors related to several core components will throw the following errors:...

Work folder under Liferay Home

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Issue After upgrading to Liferay DXP we noticed that a work folder is created in {Liferay_Home}, in addition to {Tomcat_Home}/work directory. Is this the normal behaviour? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution {Liferay_Home/work} got introduced in Liferay...

Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.dynamic.data.mapping.service - Nested exception: Content is not allowed in prolog.

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Issue After a seemingly successful upgrade to Liferay DXP 7.1 the following error is showing up in the logs while starting the DXP bundle: Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.dynamic.data.mapping.service com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException:...

APR library not found

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Issue The Apache Tomcat works without the native libraries but degrading the performance. You can see the following message on the log: INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: ...

Deleting users using UserLocalServiceUtil.deleteUser(user) gets slow

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Issue UserLocalServiceUtil.deleteUser(user) API's performance decreases, when we try to use it to delete large number of users At first this job started deleting 1100-1200 users in 1 hour per day, but after 3-4 days it is only deleting 200-300 users per hour. Why is it so slow?...

How to resolve when basic configuration portal properties are not read during startup

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Issue When starting a pre-built Liferay DXP bundle for the first time, some of the properties set in a portal-ext.properties file (such as the default.admin.* and company.default.* properties) do not take effect and the Liferay defaults remain. Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2...

How to know if your UDP Multicast communication is working

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Issue Communication is not working properly in the cluster even after setting all the configurations up in the portal instances. Changes have not been replicated from one node to another. Environment Liferay 6.2 Clustered Liferay DXP 7.0-7.2 Clustered Liferay DXP 7.3 Clustered...

Metadata for Journal Articles Not Indexing Appropriately during Upgrade Process

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Issue During the upgrade process, UpgradeImageTypeContent#copyJournalArticleImagesToJournalRepository copies all journal article images into the Document Library repository. In order to achieve this, DLFileEntry API is called, which creates a DLFileEntry record and also creates...

6.2 to 7.1 Oracle 12 Database Upgrade Results in Web Content with Custom Structures and Templates to have Missing Content

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Issue Upgrading from 6.2 to 7.1 with Oracle 12 can result in structureId and templateId reverting to the Basic Web Content structure and template which can be observed in the JournalArticle Table. Another symptom will be that after the upgrade, there will be no content in the Content...

Setting Site Member Role Permissions

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Issue How can I change/edit permissions for a Site Member Role? Environment Liferay 7.0 Liferay 7.1 Resolution Permissions for the Site Member Role can be found at: Control Panel > Users > Roles > Site Roles Tab > Site Roles > Site Member > Ellipses > Define Permissions Additional...

Slow Performance or OutOfMemory errors due to StripFilter

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Issue The StripFilter in Liferay DXP removes blank lines from Javascript, CSS, and other files. While this can result in slightly faster load times for dial-up users, it can also result in a big performance hit for Liferay depending on the amount and type of content being cached...

Users Not Appearing in Control Panel After Upgrading Liferay Version

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Issue Users are not appearing in the Control Panel > Users > Users and Organizations section after upgrading to a newer Liferay version. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1 Resolution 1. Remove com.liferay.portal.search.configuration.IndexStatusManagerConfiguration.cfg from osgi/configs...

Migrating to Liferay DXP: Best Practices, High Level Approach, and Strategy

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This paper is to help organizations assess their own resources at-hand and come up with a plan for their migration project. It contains a questionnaire to guide customers in developing their migration plans, such as migrating environments, content, and themes. The paper is available for...

Duplicate Logging in Upgrade to DXP 7.1

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Issue Upgrade to DXP 7.1 shows duplicate logging during the VerifyProcess steps. For example: 2019-02-26 00:13:25.995 INFO [main][VerifyProcess:65] Verifying com.liferay.portal.scheduler.internal.verify.SchedulerHelperPropertiesVerifyProcess INFO - Verifying...

"Incorrect string value: '\xC2\x80\xC2\x99s ...' for column 'description' at row 1"?

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Issue During the upgrade process, you may encounter an error like the following: Incorrect string value: '\xC2\x80\xC2\x99s ...' for column 'description' at row 1 Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution The database connected to the Liferay DXP bundle must be configured to UTF-8. It may...

Benchmark Study of Liferay Digital Enterprise 7.0

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This whitepaper is a benchmark study of Liferay Digital Enterprise 7.0 and describes optimal configuration, settings, and the methodology used for this study. The whitepaper also contains the results based on the scenarios used. The paper is available for download here., content:...

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