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Sites

Liferay sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. Each site includes applications for creating content, designing pages, and more. With these features, you can bring your custom solutions to life, whether intranets, public sites, customer portals, or e-commerce storefronts. In fact, you can leverage Liferay's multi-site capabilities to create multiple such sites in the same Liferay instance.

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Before Opening a Portal Deployment Ticket
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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. The following article outlines a short...
Changes in Enabling serviceLocator Calls in Liferay DXP 7.0
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...
Declining One Event of a Repeating Event Declines Every Repeating Event
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...
Upgrading to Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA1
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...
SQL Exception Warnings Appear During DXP Upgrade Indicating 'Fallback to recreating the table'
This article documents a false negative warning message that can occur when upgrading your Liferay platform, and which has caused some confusion amongst our users. During the Liferay DXP upgrade process, several WARN...
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...