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Liferay DXP is a robust platform with its own navigation menus, configuration methods, and core features. These core features are foundational to effective system administration, maintenance, notifications, and other core platform functions.

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Deployment Approach
Inputting Initial S3 Configuration Settings on DXP 7.0
This article serves as a reference for how to configure Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) to use Amazon Web Services S3. DXP users can leverage Amazon S3 in two key areas; to serve as a file store repository,...
Fix Pack and Hotfix installation order on Liferay Portal EE
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...
Apache Struts 1 Known Vulnerabilities
QUESTION: How are Liferay DXP 7.0 and 7.1, and Liferay Portal, affected by the following vulnerabilities? CVE-2016-1181: Arbitrary code execution, denial of service CVE-2016-1182: XSS and denial of service...
System-ext.properties Reference Guide
This article serves as a reference guide for how to set system wide properties through the system-ext.properties file. Similar to the relationship between the portal.properties and portal-ext.properties files,...
Update Manager gives plugin update reminders for up to date plugins
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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable.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 documents a known issue where...
Site Template Use Cases
A site template is a hierarchical set of pages and content that can be used as a template for creating new sites. Due to the power and many options of this feature, there is a large...
Setting up locales for use with Staging
This article describes how to successfully perform local-live staging with the use of language locales/translations. Resolution You will need to obtain hotfix-56 and apply it to your bundle. This fix removes an error that...
Slow Publishing and Import Time for Site When Permissions Are Included in the LAR file
When a site has many roles and permissions, publishing the site will be significantly slower when the permissions are included in the import. Please see the following steps to...
Liferay Faces: Features
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...
Unable to Include 'form' Attribute in Alloy Editor for the Web Content Portlet
This article documents a known issue with the <form> attribute in Alloy Editor. When the <form> attribute is used for building submittable forms in HTML, Alloy Editor will convert <form> into <p> when added from HTML...
Social Office Upgrade
While Social Office was previously available as a separate application that could be installed on Liferay Portal EE, many of the components that were present in Social Office are now included within Liferay DXP 7.0. This...
Web Pages Do Not Load on Internet Explorer 9
This article documents a known issue with Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) when accessing the Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.0. Upon accessing the browser page /web/guest/home, the page is blank (as shown in the image...
Storing Lucene Indexes in Various Ways
This article documents how to change where the indexes are stored. Resolution Please see the excerpt from the portal.properties file about the lucene.store.type property: Designate...
Patching Tool 1.0.24
The Patching Tool 1.0.24 is a maintenance release which includes fixes and minor updates.  Resolution Release Highlights Minor visual updates in the info command. Resolves a problem...
Roles and Permissions FAQ
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...
Managing Expired and Future Scheduled Web Content
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...
LSV-391: Security Advisory for Vulnerability With Pingback in Blogs
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...
Group mapping required for LDAP export
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"...
Making Liferay CAPTCHA Easier to Read in Liferay Portal 6.1
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
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
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...
Known Issue: Error With URLs Leading With Period (.) in Tomcat 8.5
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...
Using Application Display Templates on DXP 7.1
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...
DXP Features Summary
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) has been redesigned to include new functionality. The following list is a summary of what is new to Liferay DXP. Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Foundation OSGi Open...
Quick Start Guide to SAML on Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA2
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. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is...
Setting Up NTLM With Liferay
NTLM (NT Lan Manager) is a suite of Microsoft security protocols that provides authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users. When Liferay Portal is successfully integrated with NTLM, Active Directory users...
Setting Up Liferay Portal with Active Directory Server
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
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...
Publishing Individual Pages in a Staging Environment May Publish All Pages
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...
Notifications for Updated Versions of Plugins
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
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...
Patching Liferay Portal When There Are Custom Apps Installed
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...
Using Liferay Connector to OAuth EE
What is OAuth? It is a utility that authorizes third party applications to interact with the Liferay platform. The example from our official documentation is worth repeating here; users can make Twitter or Facebook...
Using the Data Migration Tool in Liferay Portal
This article describes the two uses of the data migration tool in the system administration section of Liferay Portal. The Data Migration Tool is fully supported for Liferay Portal 6.2...
Updating Plugins After Applying a Patch
This article documents several possible solutions for updating plugins after a new fix pack has been installed. Specifically, customers have found that a plugin's libraries are not patched at the same time as the...
Changes in MVCActionCommands and portletIds
This article documents changes to the MVCActionCommand type of commands after Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 11 is deployed. This change most affects developers building portlets in Liferay IDE tools (e.g. Liferay Developer...
Document Library Permissions Are Not Inherited Between Parent and Child Folders/Files
This article describes the behavior in which permissions do not propagate from the parent folders to the files or children folders uploaded in the Document Library. Also, this article...
LDAP Import Rejects Users From Certain Domains
This article explains why users from specific domains are not imported through LDAP due to the email address validator in the Liferay platform, and provides a solution to resolve this if a specific domain is required...
Can I Create a Remote Live Database from a Copy of the Staging Database?
This article documents Liferay's position on duplicating a database to create a staging environment. The Use Case In order to enable Remote Live Staging, system administrators must have two databases: a staged...
Hiding Sensitive Server Details on the License Page
This article documents how to hide sensitive server details, such as the IP Addresses or MAC Addresses, when an administrator deploys an invalid activation key. This poses a security risk because the information is in...