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How to change the default values available for password policy settings

Issue Is it possible to change the default durations that can be used for Password Policy settings (maximum age, warning time, etc.)? We want to set the password expiration maximum age to 12 weeks, but the closet...

Applying patches on multiple projects

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Issue As an administrator, I apply the hotfixes which are received from Liferay on multiple of our projects (for example SPACEPROGRAM and SPACEPROGRAMINTRA) However, depending on which project ID a ticket is...

How to find official Fix Packs in HelpCenter

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Issue Due to the migration processes of the Liferay systems, certain links for official Fix Pack releases could be outdated and are no longer accessible. Environment Starting from Liferay Portal 5.2 to...

What is a Slim Bundle?

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Starting in September of 2019 there will be an additional option to download “Slim Bundles”. Slim Bundles will be released for every fix pack and every service pack. Please note that...

Patching a Slim Bundle

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Issue When attempting to patch a Slim Service Pack bundle or Slim Fix Pack bundle the following error is generated: This installation does not include data for patching. Please copy...

Patching Tool Separate Command

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Please Note: The patching tool separate command is only available for Patching tool 2.x versions (Patching Liferay Portal and DXP until 7.2). The Patching Tool’s separate command helps...

Users which are deleted from Active Directory are present in the Liferay Portal

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Issue Users are not getting deleted from Liferay Portal even when these users are deleted from Active Directory. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution This is the intended behaviour of Liferay Portal....

Method to diff two Liferay Fix Packs

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Issue How can I find the difference between two fix pack versions? Is there a method to diff fix packs? Environment DXP 7.2 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.0 Portal 6.2 Resolution Quick method: Liferay provides an Online...

Who is this Anonymous User?

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Issue I started noticing actions logged in the Audit trail as a Blank User (user id 0). Who is this Anonymous user? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 (Fix Pack 60 onwards) Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution The...

Migrating the users from one portal to another

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Issue The requirement to import or migrate users from one Liferay Portal to the another Liferay Portal. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Resolution Importing users between the environments is not currently...

User list empty

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Issue The user list appears empty. Unable to find any user. Environment Liferay 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution This issue can be caused for three reasons There are no Users. :) The user does not have...

Record results from the lb command on Gogoshell

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Issue How do I record on a .txt file the results of executing the lb command on Gogoshell. Environment DXP 7.0 Resolution This is achieved by creating a script to record the session on Telnet. It's not possible to do...

LDAP User Groups are not Importing in Liferay DXP 7.1

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Issue When attempting to import Users with LDAP, sometimes User Groups do not import Environment Linux OS - Red Hat Enterprise 7.6 Liferay DXP 7.1 patched with dxp-10 LDAP Resolution This issue may occur if the...

Patching Tool 1.0.23

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The Patching Tool 1.0.23 is a maintenance release which includes fixes and minor updates. This article outlines improvements to the Patching tool, Steps on How to configure the...

Configuring Liferay's LDAP Settings to Import Users

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This article shows basic configuration of how to setup Liferay to import users from an LDAP server through the graphical user interface. Resolution Please note that the Control Panel...

FAQ for LDAP on Liferay DXP

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This document has been updated and ported to Liferay Learn and is no longer maintained here. This article documents some of the most frequently asked questions regarding the use of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol...

Managing Organization Request Notifications

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As a Help Center user, you can be a member of one or many different organizations. If you're a member of a shared organization, you can see tickets for all members of that organization. You can also receive...

Checking for Collisions Before Installing a Hotfix

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This article will walk through the basic steps that can be used to check for code collisions between a new fix pack or hotfix and custom plugins. NOTE: This procedure requires that the patches being installed include...

User is Able to Access Web Content Functions Without Proper Permissions

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This article documents a known issue in LPE-15180 where users are able to access web content functions without proper permissions. This vulnerability was fixed by the Portal-143-6210 Fix Pack. However, this fix was...

Patching Tool v22

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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...

Enabling or Disabling Permission to Edit Specific Fields in the My Account Portlet

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This article demonstrates how portal administrators can enable or disable permissions to edit specific fields in the My Account portlet in Liferay Portal 6.2. By default any user...

Including Patching Tool Info With a Help Center Ticket

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In the process of reproducing customer issues, it is critical that the patches in a given environment be made available to the Liferay Support Engineer who will be assisting you. This article describes how to capture...

Downloading the Source Code for Plugins in Liferay Marketplace

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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. If you are...

Site Roles Are Incorrectly Assigned or Lost When They Are Selected from Different Pages

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This article documents a bug in the search container with any list of selectable items. It was discovered that site administrators could not assign a Site Role if that Site Role is not listed on the first page. Roles...

Users May Appear in the Database but Not in Liferay Control Panel

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You may encounter an issue where specific users, or a group of users, are not appearing with the Control Panel. If upon querying the relevant tables in the database you are able to see...

Patch Installation Slowdown Due to Windows Security

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Issue When Patching Tool is run on a Windows machine, Windows Security can slow down the patch installation drastically due to the large amount of file operations being performed. Resolution If you experience extreme...

Identity Management in Liferay DXP

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Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) provides a robust authentication and authorization framework that allows you to manage users as desired by using the built-in mechanism or plugging into other identity and...

Users who were able to view Site Pages in the Control Panel in 6.1 cannot see Site Pages in the Dockbar in 7.1

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Issue In 6.1, we had an Organization Role which provided Control Panel access for users to view Site Pages. Following the upgrade to 7.1, we noticed users with this role are unable to see Site Pages...

Screen name validation error

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Issue Unable to choose a specific Screename. It could be cause by the following reasons: This specific Screen name is already chosen This Screen Name is not validated because the characters are not according to the...

Deleting Global and Default Site

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Issue Attempting to delete a Global or Default Site in the Environment Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution The Global and Default Sites cannot be deleted, since in case a new company is...

Disable Account Settings page for all users

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Issue Question: Is it possible to disable Account Settings page for all users. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution Disabling the Account Settings page for all users can be achieved by defining permission for the default...

Include more user attributes when exporting users to a CSV file

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Issue How to include more user attributes when exporting users to a CSV file Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution Add "users.export.csv.fields=" into portal-ext.properties to include more user attributes. # # Input a list...

Dockbar Display Error After Patch Installation With Patching Tool

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After installation of a new hotfix, the dockbar fails to display and an error message can be found in the logs: ERROR...

The service pack is Not available.

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Please be aware that the page you are viewing has been machine translated from Japanese into English and may contain some translation errors. If you observe any issues with the translation, please contact us. Issue Check...

How do I restrict Guest Users from Viewing Public Pages?

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Issue Sometimes it is necessary for Guests (non-authenticated users) to be restricted from viewing Public Pages so that they are only viewable by Site Members. Otherwise, Public Pages are for Guests and Site Members...

Managing Message Boards Categories and Threads Permissions

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This article sets forth the permissions rules for managing Message Boards Categories and Threads. One question is whether the system is granular enough to allow users to delete only category threads for which category...

How do we enable GDPR for Liferay products?

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Issue General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018 Environment Liferay 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution It’s ultimately your responsibility to assess...

Patching Tool 2.0.11

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Published: March 05, 2019 The Patching Tool 2.0.11 is a maintenance release for Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.0 and 7.1 which includes fixes and minor updates. Release...

Restricting Access to Specific User Fields

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This article documents how to restrict access to specific fields for certain users in the Liferay platform. For example, there may be the need to set the email address field for users...

Group Mapping Left Blank In LDAP Export Leads to Errors

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This articles serves as a troubleshooting guide. When Liferay is configured to export users from the portal to LDAP, the following error is encountered: 09:18:31,903 ERROR [LoginAction:128]...

How the Patching Tool Detects Changes to JSP Files

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This article explains the limitations of the patching tool (v22 and earlier) when detecting changes to the portal's JSP files. Resolution When customizations are deployed to the portal, the patching tool sometimes...

Using the Patching Tool With Websphere

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Websphere is a complex application server that does not behave like Tomcat, making its patching process slightly different Resolution There are two ways to patch Liferay Portal in...

Patching a Liferay Cluster With No Down Time

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This article describes steps for customers to patch Liferay instances in a cluster with no down time for the cluster environment. Known as a rolling change, there are limitations to...

Configuring a Database

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Configuring a Database By default for demonstration purposes, Liferay DXP/Portal is configured to use an embedded HSQL database. Beyond demonstration purposes, we recommend using a full-featured,...

Installing on Tomcat

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Installing on Tomcat Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on Tomcat. Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebSphere

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebSphere Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 or below Compatibility with IBM WebSphere application server has been removed in 2024.Q2 and later releases. ...

Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrades

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Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrades

Installing Liferay

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Installing Liferay Liferay runs on an application server. There are three ways to host Liferay: Using a Docker container Using a Liferay Tomcat bundle, on premises On a supported application...

Installing a Liferay-Tomcat Bundle

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Installing a Liferay-Tomcat Bundle The Tomcat Bundle includes the Apache Tomcat application server with Liferay DXP/Portal pre-deployed. It's the easiest, fastest way to install Liferay on...

Installing on JBoss EAP

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Installing on JBoss EAP Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on JBoss EAP. Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP...

Installing on WildFly

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Installing on WildFly Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on WildFly. Installing on WildFly requires installing the DXP WAR,...

Container Lifecycle and API

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Container Lifecycle and API At a high level, the container starts Tomcat with Liferay deployed on it. Additionally, however, the container entry point provides an API for executing these use cases:...

Running Liferay for the First Time

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Running Liferay for the First Time Once you've installed Liferay DXP/Portal and configured a database for it, it is ready to run. Start the Server Run the startup script bundled with your...

Docker Image Versions

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Docker Image Versions Liferay Docker image tags begin with a Liferay software version and end with an image version. [Liferay software version] [image version] For example, Liferay DXP 7.4.13...

Running Scripts in Containers

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Running Scripts in Containers If there's more that you want to do in the Liferay container beyond setting up Tomcat and Liferay files, deploying arifacts, and applying patches, you can use scripts....

Patching DXP in Docker

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Patching DXP in Docker Liferay patches fix DXP issues and the Patching Tool applies the patches. On Docker Hub, Liferay provides images pre-populated with each new Fix Pack, Security Fix Pack, and...

Installing Apps and Other Artifacts to Containers

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Installing Apps and Other Artifacts to Containers Applications and other artifacts (such as DXP activation keys) are installed to DXP Docker containers via the container's /mnt/liferay/deploy...

Setting Up JNDI on Tomcat

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Setting Up JNDI on Tomcat Liferay 7.4+ To set up JNDI resources, you must put the necessary JDBC drivers in the Tomcat lib folder (i.e. tomcat-9.0.56/lib). For example, if you use an Oracle...

Licensing DXP in Docker

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Licensing DXP in Docker If you're using a DXP trial license that's expiring or you have a new license (activation key) you must install, you can replace your container's existing license. Here's...

Patching Liferay

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Patching Liferay Liferay DXP uses Bundle Releases for its latest releases. Please see Updating Liferay if you are applying an Update. All Hotfixes are patches. If you're applying a Hotfix,...

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