Capability

Development and Tooling

Liferay offers a comprehensive toolkit to extend or customize your digital experience. Build applications quickly with low-code/no-code features like Objects, or leverage developer tools like Liferay Workspace and Blade CLI for further customizations.

For users on PaaS or running Self-Hosted, Liferay also offers tools deploying customizations.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Non-Liferay Users Cannot Use Their Domain in Setup Wizard
Issue We just ran a fresh install of Liferay and are seeing the following error in the logs: WARN [http-nio-8080-exec-5][PortalImpl:6760] null java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to get default company ID ...
Can we set different instance configurations on sites?
Issue Can we have different instance level settings like One-Time-Password or Multi-Factor Authentication configurations applied on different sites in the same virtual instance? Environment DXP 7.3+ Resolution The...
Is API versioning supported in Liferay headless Framework
Issue Is API versioning supported in Liferay headless Framework? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution API versioning is supported in Liferay Headless Framework. As an example, there're two versions of the...
Cache Override
Issue This article describes how to override the cache in 7.0 taking into account two different aspects: EhCache settings and Replication settings. The first one implies creating a new module, while the second is...
How to persist a Secret Environment Variable when deleting and redeploying a service
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue For business reasons, we have a custom service that we...
How do I remove the Speedwell theme from Liferay DXP 7.3?
This article is intentionally set as Internal Only Issue When not using Liferay Commerce in a DXP 7.3 environment, the Speedwell theme may remain as the default fall back theme when deploying a custom...
Enable BundleStartStopLogger debug log traces
Issue How to enable BundleStartStopLogger debug log traces to see module lifecycle events during startup. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Stop the server. If it doesn't exist create a folder named log4j...
Change to portal-ext.properties files not being reflected in node
Issue After making changes to different properties in the portal-ext.properties file, these changes are not being reflected in the environment when Liferay is being started up. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution...
Disable Pragma: no-cache header
Issue Liferay adding a "Pragma: no-cache" to the response header, and this is preventing the app server, or the client from caching the data. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Set the browser.cache.disabled...
Why is .bc.googleusercontent shown when doing nslookup on Liferay Load Balancer IP?
Issue When running a nslookup command against the Load Balancer IP that can be seen at Network > Endpoints > Ingress endpoints, .bc.googleusercontent.com will be appended to the Load Balancer's IP: $ nslookup...
Is It Possible To Change Deployed War Location?
Issue The default location of the deployed war is ${liferay.home}/osgi/war folder. Is it possible to change the location?   Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+   Resolution You can use the following property to change the...
Unexpected URLs in Page Analytics
Issue The URL pattern of different pages in the page analytics is changed i.e., starting with 'https:///' such as 'https:///login'. Environment Liferay 7.2 Resolution This is certainly an invalid URL because, even...
After setting up Liferay DXP on a fresh application server via WAR file and dependencies, "java.lang.NullPointerException: entry" thrown on startup
Issue I set up Liferay DXP on a fresh application server using the WAR file, dependencies and OSGi dependencies according to the Installing Liferay DXP on Tomcat guide, and the following errors are thrown on startup:...
How to manually remove / delete a portlet
Issue How can I completely delete a portlet so that I can redeploy an older version? When I uninstall a portlet from the App Manager, it's only Blacklisted and not uninstalled. How do I remove a custom module in...
SSL Exception with MySQL and JDK 11
Issue After starting Liferay with MySQL and JDK11, and after waiting for some time, the following traces might occur: ** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION ** javax.net.ssl.SSLException MESSAGE: closing inbound before...
Why does the liferay.cloud certificate appear when making curl/wget requests to the Load Balancer IP address?
Issue When running a curl or wget command against the Load Balancer IP that can be seen at Network > Endpoints > Ingress endpoints, the 'certificate common name' will resolve to liferay.cloud: $wget...
Deployment of Ext-plugin module
Issue Below exceptions are occurring while deploying "Asset Publisher Web Module" ext-plugin...
Change in "view in context" URL for document file entries
Issue Why does the Search Results Portlet display a different "view in context" URL for document file entries after upgrading to dxp-15? Environment DXP 7.2 with dxp-15+ Resolution Up until dxp-14, the URL format...
LPKG Index Validation takes too long and ends up in out of memory error
Issue When we start our test server with -Xmx1024Mb after applying a new patch, the LPKG Index Validator is running too long and we are getting GC overhead exception, ending up in OutOfMemoryError: WARN [HikariPool-1...
Can I Manually Execute Quartz Schedulers From the UI?
Issue I would like to trigger Quartz Scheduler jobs manually from the UI in case they ever miss a scheduled job. Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 Resolution Liferay does not currently have a feature for...