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.

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Deployment Approach
Issues With Setting Time Zone Settings on the JVM Level
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Creating a Backup/Disaster Recovery Environment for Liferay Portal
This article gives an overview of a backup/disaster recovery environment that is necessary when starting a Liferay Portal project. This backup will often be referenced by Liferay Support Engineers as it is...
Apache Tomcat Security Advisory: CVE-2018-1336
General Information CVE-2018-1336 reports that, "an improper handing of overflow in the UTF-8 decoder with supplementary characters can lead to an infinite loop in the decoder causing a Denial of Service." This...
Understanding Languages in Liferay Portal
Liferay Portal is designed to handle as many languages as you want to support. This is done by pulling out all language specific text and storing it in the language.properties files....
Upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.0 EE SP1
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...
Liferay Information for Common Application Servers
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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Resolution...
Stopping Liferay DXP 7.0 LPKG Modules
This article documents which LPKG files can be disabled with little or no negative effects as part of Liferay's introduction of modularity in Liferay DXP 7.0. Because certain core functionalities have been turned into...
Using the Data Migration Tool in Liferay DXP 7.1
This article documents how to use the data migration tool in the Server Administration section of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.1. The Data Migration Tool allows administrators to migrate data quickly...
Setting Up Liferay Portal on a DB2 Database
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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This article outlines steps on how to setup...
Document versioning won't display versions after 1.9 is entered
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. Upon...
Moving Existing Data From an Old Liferay bundle to a New One
This article provides a checklist when you move your existing data from an old Liferay environment to a new one. Resolution For database, please backup the database in old environment and import it to the new environment....
Avoiding a Batch Error When Defining Friendly URLs
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. If you...
Too Many CPU Intensive Tasks: A Common Performance Issue in DXP 7.0
This article documents a common performance issue related to running Too Many CPU Intensive Tasks within Liferay DXP 7.0. Continue reading to discover the necessary information about this issue and how to...
Virtual Host Quick Guide
The official Apache Virtual Host Documentation states:  The term Virtual Host refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as company1.example.com and company2.example.com) on a single machine....
Setting Up the Liferay Platform on AWS EC2
This article is a guide to help users set up, install and cluster Liferay DXP 7.0 or 7.1 on AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).  Resolution EC2 Instance Set Up There are 2 kinds of EC2 instances: (1)...
Thread Contention: A Common Performance Issue in DXP 7.0
This article documents a common performance issue related to Thread Contention within Liferay DXP 7.0. Read below for the necessary information about this issue and how to navigate through it. Resolution...
Anonymizing Data
Preserving anonymity of users when providing data to Liferay may be a concern for certain use-cases. The following guidelines should assist in determining which data should be anonymized and finding...
Deploying Plugins via Administration Console
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. There are multiple application servers...
Managing Time Zones in DXP 7.0
This article documents how to change the time zone in your Liferay DXP 7.0 environment. Given that users are working with the Liferay platform from all over the world, it is important to have the ability to change...
Liferay DXP Javadocs
For developers, Liferay has created a set of documentation (Javadocs) that provide API and code detail for working with Liferay DXP's core software. To access the Javadocs, follow either one of the following...
Upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.2 EE
For many customers, upgrading your Liferay platform can be a significant step forward for users, administrators and developers. Not only does an upgrade provide you with the “latest...
Deploying the Liferay Platform on WebSphere Network Deployment Edition
This article documents how to deploy Liferay Portal 6.2 or Liferay DXP (7.0 or 7.1) on WebSphere Application Server with Network Deployment (commonly abbreviated ND). The Network Deployment Edition is a tool that...
Setting Up the Liferay Platform on Microsoft Azure
This article outlines what Microsoft Azure is, how to create a Virtual Machine (VM) to run on the Liferay platform and how to configure the Liferay platform with Azure. Resolution What is Azure? Microsoft Azure is a...
Common Causes for the Properties in the 'portal-ext.properties' Not Taking Effect
This article documents the circumstances for when properties in the portal-ext.properties are not working correctly. This article also discusses common causes for the properties in the portal-ext.properties not...
Migrating File System Stores
This article documents how to use the Data Migration tool in the Server Administration section of Liferay DXP 7.0. The Data Migration Tool allows administrators to migrate data quickly between Documents and Media...
Insufficient Resources: A Common Performance Issue in DXP 7.0
This article documents a common performance issue related to Insufficient Resources within Liferay DXP 7.0. Read below for the necessary information about this issue and how to navigate through it. Resolution...
Installing Fixes That Involve Updates to Database Tables
We understand that some customers have security policies which compel them to use the Liferay platform to connect to the database as a user that does not have elevated privileges; privileges to change the...
Removing '/web/' From Auto-Generated URLs
This article documents how the Liferay platform will automatically generate URLs appended with /web/, which can also be changed to a friendly URL. This may be an issue for those who do...
Upgrading to Permission Algorithm 6
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. Permission algorithm 5 was used as the default...
Checklist for Upgrading to Liferay DXP
Upgrading to Liferay DXP (7.0, 7.1, 7.2, or 7.3) is a major project and requires careful planning, testing and execution in order to be successful. However, Liferay DXP and DXP Cloud...
Installing DXP in a Clustered Environment
This document has been updated and ported to Liferay Learn and is no longer maintained here. Many enterprise environments utilize clustering for both scalability and availability. This article provides specific...
Setting Up Session Replication in Tomcat With Liferay Portal
The purpose of this article is to setup a basic Tomcat cluster that has session replication. For true session replication, there must be a load balancer that redirects the traffic to...
Modifying Cache Size, Time To Live and Replication in DXP 7.0
This article documents how to work with your cache in Liferay DXP 7.0, in order to modify its size, time to live (TTL) and replication. Resolution Modify Default Cache Sizes and Entry TTLs A potential source of...
Ehcache Configuration for DXP 7.x
This document has been updated and ported to Liferay Learn and is no longer maintained here. This article documents how to implement distributed caching on Liferay DXP 7.x and how to deploy custom tuning...
Setting Up Session Replication in Weblogic With Liferay Portal
This article outlines how to set up session replication using Weblogic with Liferay Portal. This documentation is for reference only. Configuring session replication is not recommended...
Installing DXP on IBM DB2 v.10.5
This article documents steps on how to start Liferay DXP on IBM DB2 10.5. Resolution Creating a Database Start DB2 Command Line Process Plus. Enter the following: create database dxp pagesize 32768 USING CODESET UTF-8...
Disabling OSGI Components for DXP
This article documents how to temporarily disable an OSGI component via Gogo Shell, and how to add a component to the blacklist in order to disable it permanently. We will use the WebDAV component as an example. Resolution...
Deploying DXP 7.0 on JBoss EAP 7.0
This article documents how to set up Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.0 on JBoss EAP 7.0. Administrators and developers familiar with JBoss EAP 6.x products will note that the installation steps are more or...
Configuring the IPGeocoder Module to Start Without an Internet Connection
This article documents how to configure the IP Geocoder module to start without an Internet connection. By default, this module must be connected to the Internet during the startup process. However, for some customers,...
Installing and Executing the DB Upgrade Client
The DB Upgrade Client is a standalone client used for upgrading your Liferay DXP database. This article documents how to install and execute the DB Upgrade Client. Resolution...