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This article explains a few key facts surrounding the "verify" process in the Liferay Portal and steps that need to be taken to ensure the integrity of the database being used by the Liferay Portal. Please note that this property was deprecated from 7.2.x with no direct replacement....

In Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA2, administrators do not have the ability to deploy plugins from the control panel. In order to achieve the installation of portlets not within Liferay Marketplace, the Private Plugin Installer must be installed. Resolution Download the Private Plugin Installer...

Starting with Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA2, plugins can be autodeployed to WebSphere. As a part of the Liferay autodeploy process, the Liferay platform will call the Websphere's wsadmin script interface to deploy the plugin using a Jython script. In a Standalone WebSphere installation,...

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...

This article documents a known issue when updating to Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 37 or higher. During the update process, the following error exists in the console: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException:...

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...

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 is a guide...

This article will help users by providing instructions for setting up MySQL on your machine, creating a new database, and then connecting Liferay Portal to that database. Resolution Installing MySQL Double click the MySQL version that you have obtained, either workbench or 5.1+ are...

This article is designed to help system administrators troubleshoot a Liferay DXP instance deployed in a clustered environment. Some issues may arise because of too restrictive firewall settings (most, if not all, systems are protected by a firewall). And if certain ports are not opened...

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...

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. One commonly asked...

This article is intended to provide a list of all the Liferay DXP 7.1 database properties that can be used to connect your DXP 7.1 installation to various databases. To use any of them, uncomment the block of code you need, and paste it into your portal-ext.properties file. For example,...

This article documents a change in where to define serviceLocator properties in Liferay platforms; both in Portal and Digital Experience Platform (DXP). Developers familiar with this functionality in Portal 6.2 can enable or disable this property to allow specific calls in Freemarker or...

With DLFileRank enabled, Deadlock or SQL Update Batch Errors may happen due to DLFileRank updates. When using DLFileRank, unique constraints can be found due to the amount of writes that are done to the database. Many times it is helpful to take a look at the constraint that is causing...

Liferay comes equipped out-of-the-box with a variety of portlets that users may add to their page. For various reasons, however, an administrator may wish to remove some of these portlets from the pool of available portlets. Fortunately, this can be achieved either in the control panel...

Xuggler is a tool for users to encode and decode media files. Used in conjunction with Liferay Portal or Digital Enterprise 7.0, users can view media files on the Documents and Media portlet. The integration with Liferay is a .jar file downloadable from the Control Panel. There is a...

This article documents how declining one event of a Repeating Event declines every repeating event. For example, if there is a weekly repeating event and a user declines that event in the third week—every repeating event is then declined. When you select Event Details, the option to...

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...

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...

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...