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Setting Up Liferay Portal with Active Directory Server
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The details of this article may also be covered in Configuring Liferay's LDAP Settings to Import Users. This article provides a comprehensive walkthrough for integrating an Active Directory Server with Liferay...
Using Liferay Connector to OAuth 2.0 in Liferay DXP 7.1
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What is OAuth? It is a utility that authorizes third party applications to interact with the Liferay platform. The OAuth example from our official documentation is worth repeating here; users can make Twitter or...
Known Issues: Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Packs and Service Packs
legacy Troubleshooting
Note: This article is no longer maintained and is only made available for your reference. All the information in this article can now be found in the Liferay DXP Release Notes. This...
Publishing Individual Pages in a Staging Environment May Publish All Pages
legacy Troubleshooting
When publishing individual pages from a Staging environment to a Live environment, it is possible that upon publication, all pages in the Live environment may reflect changes. If this...
Using Application Display Templates on DXP 7.1
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Application Display Templates Table of Contents Introduction to Application Display Templates (ADT) Working with an ADT: Media Gallery Using the API: Creating an ADT for Wiki Exporting / Importing ADTs Known Issues and...
Patching Liferay Portal When There Are Custom Apps Installed
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Liferay Portal fix packs and hotfixes will often update, not only JSPs, but also classes. In order to ensure that your custom projects continue to use the most up-to-date code, please...
Notifications for Updated Versions of Plugins
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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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable.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 there...
Overriding Liferay's Default CSS for Individual Portlets
legacy How To
In custom environments, it may be necessary to apply custom styles to specific portlets. The example below gives guidance on how to override the Liferay Theme CSS in order to customize...
Roles and Permissions FAQ
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This article documents some of the more complex use cases when granting permissions to a site. Who can be site members? I am having trouble adding user groups to a site; the user groups are not displaying. I don't want...
LSV-391: Security Advisory for Vulnerability With Pingback in Blogs
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This advisory comes in response to the recent public announcement of a potential Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.0.4. The report talks about a perceived vulnerability for the...
Managing Expired and Future Scheduled Web Content
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This article documents how the Web Content Display portlet is designed to display different versions of the same Web Content article. In particular, this article discusses the intended...
Making Liferay CAPTCHA Easier to Read in Liferay Portal 6.1
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This article is intended for legacy versions of Liferay Portal CAPTCHA is an industry standard security measure that requires users to enter what they see a small window as part of the validation process when creating an...
ThreadLocal Leaking Caused by Usages of Netty in Elasticsearch
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This article documents a possible known issue where there is ThreadLocal leak shown in the console logs when shutting down the application server:...
Hiding Portlets From Guests Who Do Not Have Permission to View It
legacy How To
When view permissions for guests are unchecked for a portlet, a guest will see the following message in the portlet: You do not have the roles required to access this portlet. While...
Group mapping required for LDAP export
legacy Troubleshooting
This article addresses one issue for Active Directory users attempting to log in to the Liferay platform. Liferay is configured for use with an LDAP server (without mapping the "Group"...
Known Issue: Error With URLs Leading With Period (.) in Tomcat 8.5
legacy Troubleshooting
Customers using Tomcat 8.5 and configuring the Liferay platform with URLs that have a leading period (.) may encounter the following error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: An invalid domain [.example.com] was specified...
Extension Environment Migration Tips
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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....
Embedding Videos in Web Content Articles on DXP 7.1+
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This reference article describes several different ways to embed videos in Web Content Articles in Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1+. It is designed to supplement Liferay's Official Documentation on Publishing...
Vocabulary and Category Management for Staging
legacy Troubleshooting
This article outlines a practical suggestion for managing the use of categories and vocabularies in a way that prevents publication errors due to dependencies.  Resolution When working within a site, a user may...
Page Reordering for Staging
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This article outlines a practical suggestion for performing a page reordering in a staged environment. Following the suggestion below will ensure that pages are reordered without the publish taking an inordinate...
Spring Framework Security Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1270, CVE-2018-1271, CVE-2018-1272
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QUESTION: How are Liferay Digital Enterprise 7.0 and Liferay Portal affected by the Spring Framework Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1270, CVE-2018-1271, and CVE-2018-1272? Resolution Impact to Liferay CVE-2018-1270: Liferay...
Disabling the Authentication System and Delegating It to an LDAP Server
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By default, the Liferay platform always uses its own authentication system that checks and validates the user password in its own database. Even if you enable LDAP settings and set it...
Defining Wiki Permissions
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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. Wiki...
Using Multiple Languages for Staging
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This article outlines a practical suggestion for avoiding issues when using multiple languages in a site along with the Liferay platform’s staging feature. Following this suggestion will help prevent future staging...
Defining Encryption Algorithms for Passwords Stored in the Database
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By default, Liferay encrypts the passwords that go into the database. The default algorithm is SHA-1 in 6.0 and 6.1 versions, which changed to PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1/160/128000 in version...
Communicate Standard for Using 'Live-Editable' Portlets for Staging
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This article outlines a practical suggestion for keeping data in sync between the staging and live site for portlets that allow changes in both places. Following the workaround will help prevent staging publication...
Creating Numeric Screen Names
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This article describes how numeric screennames can be used in Liferay Portal. Resolution Set the following property to true in the portal-ext.properties file that will override the...
Patch Management Best Practices
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The principles below are adopted from general industry standard patch management best practices. Following these will help mitigate the risk of change on production servers. Awareness Liferay communicates the...
Configuring Lucene to Reindex Less Aggressively on Liferay Portal
legacy Troubleshooting
In Liferay Portal, after completing a large LDAP import, performance may suffer because Lucene is set to re-index after every change. For example, if there are 15,000 users, Lucene will perform an index after each user is...
Limitations When Using Pjax to Render Embedded Content
legacy Troubleshooting
This article describes a fundamental product limitation when pjax is used to render programmatically nested content in Liferay platforms. (Pjax is a jQuery plugin, a standalone JavaScript module that uses AJAX...
Correcting Translations in the Liferay Platform
legacy How To
When installing Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.0 or any Liferay Portal version, portal administrators have the option to leverage any of the translations that come with the default installation. This...
Configuring LDAP to Ignore Attributes During the Import Process
legacy How To
This article describes how specific LDAP attributes can be ignored during LDAP user import. Sometimes, users may change some information on the Liferay Portal. When the next scheduled...
Changing the Default Title or Description of a Portlet System-wide
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The title of a portlet is determined by the language properties files and may be changed system-wide by using a language ext properties file similar to portal-ext.properties. Resolution To demonstrate how to change the...
Splitting Blog Information Into Different Pages
legacy How To
Through the Blog Portlet, there is a unique functionality where Blog information can be split into different pages. Resolution To achieve this functionality, start by going to the...
Optimizing Lucene
legacy Troubleshooting
In most cases, optimizing Lucene is helpful; in larger deployments it is a necessity. This article aims to explain the relevant settings for optimizing Lucene and provide links to...
Configuring the automatic email notification URLs to display the correct port number
legacy Troubleshooting
When an email notification is sent out, the template for the message may not be referencing the correct port within the URL. For example, the email may show the URL as...
AIX License Deployment Issue
legacy Troubleshooting
When using the AIX operating system with Liferay Portal 6.1, a license may fail to deploy, giving the output: License is in use by another instance. Resolution This license issue is due to a known issue with AIX, in...
Message Boards Issue When Configuring With HTML and Creating Hyperlinks With the 'Other' Designation
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This article documents a known behavior where Message Boards' CKEditor—when configured to HTML—will have text stripped from hyperlinks after a post. This is usually observed after setting the protocol to Other. Resolution...
Liferay's permissions.inline.sql.check.enabled property
legacy Troubleshooting
When searching, guest users are able to see highlighted folders, categories, and threads when they have no permission to view them. Resolution During search, Liferay runs a permission...
Liferay Portal Activation Key Deployment Instructions for versions 5.2 SP5 to 6.0.X
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Activation Key deployment for Liferay Portal versions 5.2.9 (Service Pack 5) to 6.0.x is different from key deployment for Liferay versions 5.2 SP4 and earlier. Activation keys are no...