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How to Upgrade to Liferay DXP from Liferay 6.X

This whitepaper aims to set a framework for Liferay’s recommended upgrade path for your organization. A major technology upgrade is an endeavor requiring a deep analysis of your business requirements, careful planning, testing and execution in order to be successful. The paper is...

Liferay DXP 7.1 Upgrade Performance Benchmark

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The Liferay Support and Liferay Engineering tuned Liferay 6.2 EE databases for upgrade and tested upgrading them to Liferay DXP 7.1. Databases from several vendors were tested. This whitepaper describes the test scenarios, tuning for database upgrade and upgrade performance results. The...

Removing Product Information Displayed in the HTTP Headers

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Issue Customers might want to remove the product information found in the HTTP Headers and in the console logs for security reasons. The information displays: Liferay-Portal: Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.0.10 GA1 (Wilberforce / Build 7010 / June 15, 2016) Environment Liferay DXP...

I would like to upgrade my portlets to Liferay DXP but can not find where XML Descriptors have been moved to

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Issue Upgrading from Liferay 6.2 to Liferay 7.0+ is a significant process. One of the changes implemented is the use of OSGi components. Several XML Descriptors have been converted to OSGi services. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 and higher Resolution Our Liferay DXP 7.1 Portlet Descriptor...

Updating to Liferay DXP 7.2 SP1 / Fix Pack 2 (or Above) from Liferay DXP 7.2 GA1 or Fix Pack 1

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Issue When migrating from 7.2 GA1 or Fix Pack 1 to Liferay DXP 7.2 Fix Pack 2 (ie: SP1) or above, you will be required to run the upgrade tool after installing the patch. The reason for this is, SP1 and FP2 have modifications to data within the database that must be completed before...

Upgrade Tool Uses Wrong Version of Tomcat

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Issue When upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.0 or DXP 7.1 and using the SP1 + Tomcat bundle, the wrong version of Tomcat is suggested by the Upgrade Tool For 7.1 the bundle includes Tomcat 9.0.6, but the Upgrade Tool is configured to recommend version 9.0.10 For 7.0 the bundle includes Tomcat...

DXP 7.3 Upgrade Reference Guide

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An upgrade to Liferay DXP 7.3 gives you access to the latest Liferay technology, complete with all of the newest features, and the assurance of continued support for your Liferay environment. Our Subscription Services Team recognizes that an upgrade often requires a significant...

Installing Fix Packs and Hotfixes on Liferay DXP

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This document has been updated and ported to Liferay Learn and is no longer maintained here. To install Fix Packs and hotfixes on Liferay DXP, customers must first download the latest Patching Tool. For more information on how to configure the Patching Tool, see: Using the Patching Tool....

Taking Thread Dumps From a JVM

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. A thread dump is a...

Taking Heap Dumps From a JVM

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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. When a system runs into...

Permissions Are Not Working Post-Upgrade

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After upgrading from Liferay Portal 5.2, permissions settings may act in an undesirable manner. This could include not being able to change permissions, as well as not being able to access the control panel or any other areas of the portal that require something other than guest...

LDAP settings and upgrading from 5.2.x to 6.x

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This article pertains to portals in which LDAP is configured in Liferay Portal 5.2.x and an upgrade is performed. When a user attempts to login, an error is thrown, and the user is not authenticated. 18:44:06,854 ERROR [LDAPAuth:321] Problem accessing LDAP server...

User's group membership not updating with LDAP after upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.0 EE SP2

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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...

High Priority Issue Checklist

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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...

Error when going to Portal Settings After Upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.1

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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',...

Issues Encountered with Upgrades to Liferay Portal EE Versions

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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...

[Upgrade] Handling Quartz Data during Liferay Portal Upgrades

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Quartz data is a unique type of data. If quartz data is part of the database upgrade, then there are some potential additional steps to take during the upgrade process. Resolution If there are not any publishing jobs, simply dump the data in the old scheduler and the upgrade process will...

Backslashes in Screen Name Are No Longer Valid After Upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.2

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After upgrading from Liferay Portal version 5.2 EE SP4 to 6.2 EE, backslashes in the screen name are not allowed when using the liberal screen name validator. In Portal 5.2, backslashes were allowed in the screen name. Resolution The ability to add backslashes in the screen name was...

Liferay Upgrades: Updating Custom Plugins

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The following article describes how to update plugins to be compatible with a new version of the Liferay platform. Resolution The Liferay API may change from release to release, causing issues when trying to port code to a new version of Liferay. Please follow these steps in order to...

Internal Server Error after Upgrade

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A common error is that sometimes when certain pages display an internal server error and there is no stacktrace. If there was a custom theme before the upgrade the page layouts will still reference them and if one has not installed or recompiled the layouts in a new sdk it will create a...

Errors When Applying Support Driven Hotfixes Based on FP-41 or FP-42

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This article documents a known issue when applying a Liferay Support Driven Hotfix built off either DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 41 or Fix Pack 42. Due to an error generating the release notes, the documentation.xml file in Fix Packs 41 and 42 contains an invalid list of fixed issues. As a result, a...

Migrating Tag Sets During the Upgrade Process From Liferay Portal 5.2 to 6.0

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This article outlines the changes to Tags and Tag Sets between Liferay Portal 5.2 to Liferay Portal 6.0, and later versions. Specifically: The changes to the Tags Navigation Portlet (Where Did Tag Sets Go?) How to migrate Tags to Categories and Tag Sets to Vocabularies. Resolution 1. The...

Upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.0 EE SP2

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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. When upgrading to the latest Liferay Portal, there are many things to take into account. This guide is designed to...

Structures With Duplicate Element Names Fail DDM Verification When Upgrading

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This article documents a known issue in which structures with duplicate element names fail Dynamic Data Mapping (DDM) verification when upgrading from Liferay Portal 6.1 to Liferay Portal 6.2 or Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.0 or 7.1. For customers who are upgrading their Liferay...

Upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA1

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When upgrading to the latest version of Liferay Portal, there are many things to take into account. This guide is designed to assist in the upgrading process. Please read and ensure your environment is ready prior to performing the upgrade. Resolution These instructions should be used if...

SQL Exception Warnings Appear During DXP Upgrade Indicating 'Fallback to recreating the table'

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This article documents a false negative warning message that can occur when upgrading your Liferay platform, and which has caused some confusion amongst our users. During the Liferay DXP upgrade process, several WARN messages are issued with an SQL exception such as follows: 11:01:50,141...

Fix Pack and Hotfix installation order on Liferay Portal EE

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The order of fix pack and hotfix updates are determined by engineering in several ways. This order is hardcoded in the update. Environment Versions previous to Portal 6.2 SP11 Resolution General Guidelines: The general order of installation is: Fix-Packs and Security Updates before...

Upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.0 EE SP1

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When upgrading to the latest Liferay Portal, there are many things to take into account. This guide is designed to assist in the upgrading process. Please read and ensure your environment is ready prior to performing the upgrade. Resolution These are listed in order of what should be...

Logout function after disabling header

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Issue If we disable "Show Header" in Site Builder > Pages > Public/Private Pages settings > Look and Feel > Show Header, the user icon is not there. How should a user log out in this case? Environment 7.2 Resolution There is a way to display the User Personal Menu in the Control Menu if...

The Liferay Server Cannot Start Up After Installing a Hotfix

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Issue The Liferay server cannot start up after installing the hotfix (For example, hotfix-8495). In a Tomcat server, the following error occurs: ERROR [main][PortalContextLoaderListener:114] java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException at...

The 'Select All' checkbox does not appear properly under the Define Permissions tab

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Issue The 'Select All' checkbox does not appear properly under the Define Permissions tab. Steps to reproduce: 1) Navigate to Control Panel > Roles 2) Edit the 'Guest' role and navigate to the Define Permissions tab 3) Click on any permission for checking (e.g. Users and Organizations)...

Redirect Destination for SAML Authentication

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue How are redirects determined during SAML authentication? Environment DXP...

Clarification on createDate attribute in the user_ table

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Issue We are unsure of the following: does Liferay update the createDate column in the user_ table when a user performs their first login to Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution There are no changes done to the...

Cannot set proper permissions for Panel Category Entries in a Custom Site

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Issue The custom site panel category entries' panel app permissions do not work as intended. We are unable to grant permissions to access the panel app through a "Site role" if the category key does not start with "site_administration." It will only work if we grant the permission with a...

A Site Administrator cannot view or update the value of page or site custom fields

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Issue A Liferay administrator has created custom fields for pages and sites. A site administrator cannot update or even view the value of these custom fields when going to a page configuration or to the site configuration. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 Resolution A...

Characters or strings that cannot be specified in the friendly URL of a page

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue Are there any characters or strings in the friendly URL of the page that...

Time zone of the web content publication date and time

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue Instance Settings > Localization > Time zone setting changed to JST from...

Behavior when password expiration date is changed

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue If I change the "password expiration date" in the password policy, what...

Disable Commerce module on Liferay 7.4

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Issue Liferay Commerce is not relevant for the business user, they would like to disable it in DXP 7.4 Property added to portal-ext.properties file: enterprise.product.commerce.enabled=false Environment DXP 7.4 U48+ Resolution The portal property for disabling Commerce modules was...

Multiple LDAP connections shared with one LDAP server prevent some users from logging in

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Issue When multiple LDAP connections are shared on one LDAP server, only users from one LDAP connection can log in while users from the other LDAP connections cannot. The following error is seen in the logs: 2023-02-17 22:08:26.191 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-2][LDAPAuth:455] Problem...

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