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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Starting Servers in the Correct Sequence

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Justin Choi

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Issue

  • What is the correct sequence to start up all servers during a restart?

Environment

  • DXP 7.0, 7.1

Resolution

  • Sometimes it is necessary to restart some if not all of the servers that Liferay DXP runs on or is dependent on. Reasons include rolling restarts for patching or maintenance.
  • As a rule, start the servers that Liferay DXP and legacy portal depend on first. Those that are not necessary to run Liferay DXP are second.

The correct order:

  1. Database servers.
  2. Search server - Elasticsearch or SOLR. This could also be clustered.
  3. Any CDN or repositories
  4. Application servers - at least one; this becomes the master node in a cluster environment. Start up others as needed later.

After these have been started successfully, start up secondary ones like web servers.

 

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