Capability

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.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Segments API taking more time
Issue When there are around 230 user segments, it displays content based on the segment when the user logs in. Since there are more segments, the segment API takes more time to get the user segment. long[]...
Headless API: Read-Only and Write-Only fields
Issue Schemas used by Headless API have fields with properties readOnly: true or writeOnly: true. What does it mean? Which field must be used when making a POST/PUT/PATCH request? Environment Any Liferay environment...
Theme style is not minified
Issue While building themes, user has noticed that theme's style files are not being minified. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Please change NODE_ENV=production by using the environment variable as per your...
ServletException during Liferay startup caused by a NullPointerException
Issue You might encounter an issue where you face an error when starting up Liferay which prevents proper functioning: javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NullPointerException at...
Long Combo URLs Exceeding 2048 Characters
Issue Long inbuilt Combo URLs exceeding 2048 characters are getting blocked at WAF level. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The long /combo URLs are designed to intentionally be close to the maximum...
User requires a documented list of Key Highlights ,Important changes and Breaking changes
Issue How to get a list of highlights or important changes that happened while upgrading from one update to another update of DXP version 7.4 in a single document. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Exporting...
com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.i18n.I18nFilter has been removed. What do I need to do?
Issue During startup (or upgrade) we see this error in the logs ERROR [main][VerifyProperties:163] Portal property "com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.i18n.I18nFilter" is obsolete Why was this removed, and what do we need...
How to disable NetVibes and Google Gadget in widget's sharing options
Issue Netvibes and Google Gadget widget sharing options could reveal some information. Is it possible to disable them? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution The url of those servlets are managed by this...
Cannot sign in to marketplace
Issue Steps to reproduce: Go to Control Panel > Marketplace Store Click the Sign In button Expected Behavior: Can sign in to the marketplace Observed Behavior: Clicking the Sign In button doesn’t do anything....
LPS-200065 is in the 2023.Q4.1 Quarterly release notes but is missing from the bundle
Issue LPS-200065 was included in the DXP 7.4 2023.Q4.1 release notes, but it was missing from the bundle Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 2023.Q4.1 bundles and docker images Resolution LPS-200065 has been included in the...
Removal of Velocity Template Engine
Issue The option to enable Velocity Template Engine has disappeared in Liferay DXP 7.4 and Quarterly Releases.  Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Quarterly Releases: 2023.Q3, 2023.Q4 Resolution Velocity templates were...
Errors calling an external SOAP web service related to javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider or com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl after upgrading to Java 11
Issue We have developed a custom login pre-action module where we want to call an external SOAP web service, this module was working on older Liferay versions. After upgrading to Java 11, if we try calling this external...
Does Liferay have a health check URL or a similar monitoring mechanism?
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue We need to monitor Liferay nodes health in order to connect it...
"Constraint Violation in UpgradeListTypeType" error in upgrade
Issue When attempting to upgrade, it has been observed an error when transitioning from a bundle prior to U100 to a bundle between U100 and U103. Any attempt to upgrade beyond U103 results in a failure with the...
Need to clone a Production environment to a lower one
Issue We had some issues upgrading our Production environment about a year ago and had to roll it back. Our Non Production and Pre-production environments remained on the newer version of Liferay (at the time) and we...
Environment becomes unstable after number of file descriptors has steadily increased
Issue A Liferay environment with a frontal element has become unstable after running for a few days. Checking the system's health, there has been a steady increase of open file descriptors. Environment Liferay DXP...
Service builder does not generate correct class package
Issue Service Builder does not generate the correct class package when both "com" and "org" are included in the package path. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a service.xml with package-path com.liferay.org and a...
Possibility of improving SEO removing "/-/" from friendlyURL
Issue When the user uses the default Liferay Blogs and clicks on Read More, the URL implicitly contains "/blog/-/blogs/" along with the friend URL part. However, the user needs to just have '/blog/' instead of...
How to rollback to a previous version of Liferay?
Issue We would like for some guidance on how to revert Liferay 7.3 to 7.1. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution If you have a backup copy of your 7.1 database and instance, you should be able to redeploy the pre-upgrade...
Suppressing an InvalidHost Warning
Issue Is it possible to suppress InvalidHost warnings that are similar to the following: 2023-12-18 18:15:55.485 WARN  [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-5][code_jsp:161] {code="500", msg="", uri=/} java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid...
Context initialization failed errors on deploying custom layout template
Issue Cannot deploy custom layout template to the portal Steps to reproduce: Startup Deploy the attached custom layout template Expected Behavior: It should be deployed successfully. Observed Behavior: The...
Cannot start a cluster with java.lang.IllegalAccessException: class javax.naming.spi.NamingManager
Issue After configuring the cluster using DNS_PING we obtain below stacktrace and the cluster doesn't start: com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException: Unable to create JGroupsClusterChannel at...
JBoss Datasource Error Causing Production Outages
Issue We had two production outages today and observed the following error: ERROR [liferay/search_writer/SYSTEM_ENGINE-7][ElasticsearchIndexWriter:143] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Future got interrupted Caused by:...
ORA-01795: maximum number of expressions in a list is 1000_ [Sanitized]
Issue After performing an upgrade between DXP versions and using an Oracle database, the following errors are observed: ERROR [main][UpgradeStepRegistratorTracker:185] Failed upgrade process for module...
Audit OSGi Dependency Error Post Upgrade
Issue We are observing the below error after upgrading: WARN  [main][DependencyManagerSyncUtil:73] Declarative Service Unsatisfied Component Checker check result: _Bundle {id: 148, name:...
Getting same response from two URLs having space ( ) and hyphen (-)
Issue When a friendly URL is created using hyphens (E.g. https://www.abc.in/test-my-friendly-url), then one more URL, same as the friendly URL, having space ( ) in place of the hyphen (-) (E.g....
Liferay DXP 7.4 Upgrade Compatibility with Spring 6.0.X
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Upgrade to 7.4 Error - DDMFormFieldValue
Issue When attempting to upgrade to DXP 7.4, users encounter the following error: WARN [main][DDMFieldUpgradeProcess:616] null java.lang.NullPointerException: null at...
PortalUtil.getPortalURL() is returning http response
Issue While trying to fetch some data using PortalUtil.getPortalURL(httpServletRequest) method, it returns http response even on a SSL enabled website. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution There...
Java NPEs in the Console When Refreshing the CAPTCHA Image
This article documents a known issue where refreshing the CAPTCHA image causes a Java NullPointerException (NPE) to be triggered. Please note that the CAPTCHA image will still be refreshed. Steps to Reproduce Start the...
Using the 'getOriginalServlet' Function to Retrieve the Default Query String in DXP 7.0
This article serves as a reference guide on how to use the getOriginalServletRequest function to get the default queryString when using the OSGi framework. Developers familiar with Liferay Portal 6.2 EE and now using...
Configuring Theme-Embedded Portlets After Deploying Security-Hotfix-11-6012
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....
Apache Struts 2 Vulnerability: CVE-2017-9805 and CVE-2017-12611 - REST XStream FreeMarker
The following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) have been reported for Apache Struts 2: CVE-2017-9805 CVE-2017-12611 CVE-2018-1327 - REST XStream FreeMarker CVE-2018-11776 How are Liferay DXP (both 7.0 and...
JSESSIONID Changes as Part of Liferay Security
This article documents Liferay's position regarding the Session Identifier (JSESSIONID), including how and why a new JSESSIONID is generated.  Resolution Customers doing their own security scan of the Liferay platform...
WeDeploy Auth Admin Portlet in Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Packs
When deploying Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 24, 25, 26 or 27, the WeDeploy Auth Admin portlet will appear in the Control Panel. WeDeploy is currently a beta product. The addition of this portlet will have no impact or...
Cookies Issue Related to Two-Character Domain Names While Using Internet Explorer
This article documents an issue that has been reported by some users working on Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP). It is a cookies issue that has been reported, and the issue arises when using certain versions of...
SAML Comprehensive Quick Start Guide for Liferay Portal
This is a comprehensive article that documents the steps for how to set up SAML on Liferay Portal 6.2 EE. In addition, this article covers the different ways that SAML can be implemented and utilized. SAML (Security...
JSONWS Guest Access
The Liferay platform's JSONWS page is available to unauthenticated users at your Liferay_URL/api/jsonws. However, this does not mean that guest users have access to execute JSON web services. Even if the web...
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Performance Issues Due to CSS Style Calculations
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Internet Explorer 11 with Compatibility Mode May Lead to Slow Page Loads
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