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Published Sep. 10, 2025

'The string this-site,this-site does not correspond to a valid search scope preference' console errors

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Kanchan Bisht

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Issue

  • Even though the hotfix that was generated by including LPS-146763 is installed, the following errors appear. 
    ERROR [default task-83][BaseJSPSettingsConfigurationAction:83] Unable to include JSP /search/bar/configuration.jsporg.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The string this-site,this-site does not correspond to a valid search scope preference
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:440)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:473)
...........
    at com.bluedart.hooks.filter.CrossScriptingFilter.doFilter(CrossScriptingFilter.java:77)
at com.liferay.bluedart.security.GlobalSecurityFilter.processFilter(GlobalSecurityFilter.java:89)
at com.liferay.bluedart.security.GlobalSecurityFilter.doFilter(GlobalSecurityFilter.java:55)

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.2 Fix Pack 17

Resolution

  • Custom plugins are the cause of the errors shown here, as shown in the error traces below. 
    • at com.bluedart.hooks.filter.CrossScriptingFilter.doFilter(CrossScriptingFilter.java:77) 
      at com.liferay.bluedart.security.GlobalSecurityFilter.processFilter(GlobalSecurityFilter.java:89) 
      at com.liferay.bluedart.security.GlobalSecurityFilter.doFilter(GlobalSecurityFilter.java:55)
  • Workaround : The following are some pointers that could be useful in this type of use cases. 
    The problematic data is stored in the portletPreferences table, users use Liferay APIs to get all preferences for portletIds that match com_liferay_portal_search_web_search_bar_portlet_SearchBarPortlet, they should all have a unique instanceId on the end as well. 
    Once they have the proper portletPreference entries, users should look for a preference "search scope" and remove duplicate values.

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