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Performance Issue With LDAP Imports When Using Oracle Database
legacy Troubleshooting
This article is regarding a performance issue that may surface when executing an LDAP import using the UserGroup method for a large amount of users. Specifically, the issue is that the...
Patching a Liferay Cluster With No Down Time
legacy How To
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...
Liferay's Clustering API
legacy How To
Liferay will support our API and resolve any issues and answer any questions having to do with the API itself or any other part of Liferay's software. Issues and questions regarding...
Export Process Fails if the Asset Name Has a Forbidden Character
legacy Troubleshooting
This article documents a known issue in the export process if any asset has a forbidden character in the name. These characters are usually reserved for HTML and XML and thus should not be used. In the case of...
JSON Authentication for Custom Portlets
legacy Troubleshooting
Liferay will support our API and resolve any issues and answer any questions having to do with the API itself or any other part of Liferay's software. Issues and questions regarding custom development may be handled by...
Liferay Schema Encoding
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The Liferay schema encoding should always match the encoding used in the database. One of the easiest ways to do this is to simply use UTF-8 across the board so that no issues arise....
Enabling strip.css.sass Results in an Exception
legacy Troubleshooting
When strip.css.sass.enabled is set to true in the portal-ext.properties, a MalformedURLException will be thrown: ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-1][VirtualHostFilter:323] java.net.MalformedURLException: Path null does not...
Introduction of Sites in Liferay 6.1 EE
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In previous versions of Liferay Portal, there were two distinct ways to group things: Communities and Organizations. With Liferay Portal 6.1, these two options are still available, but...
Installing Liferay on Mule Tcat
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Liferay Portal Tcat Edition is a combination of Liferay Portal—the leading open source portal—and Tcat Server—an enterprise grade administration console for the Apache Tomcat application server. Tcat server provides...
Developer License Marked as Invalid on Liferay Portal 6.2
legacy Troubleshooting
Between fix packs "portal-96" and "portal-109", there is a known issue with license handling. When the maximum connection limit is reached, the license page is displayed and the license itself is marked as...
Installing a Patch Without Correctly Shutting Down Liferay Portal Corrupts the Portal Files
legacy Troubleshooting
When using patching-tool version 20 and below, corruptions of portal files can occur if a patch is installed when the portal is not completely shutdown, or if it is still running....
Importing Large LAR Files Fails
legacy Troubleshooting
Importing Large LAR files (100MB+) may fail in Liferay Portal. Below are some version-specific recommendations: For versions before DXP 7.1 Increase the size of the following property:...
CKEditor Missing Buttons When Page is Not Maximized
legacy How To
If the window size of the browser is not fully maximized, the CKEditor will not display all the buttons as when the browser is maximized. Resolution This behavior is a new feature...
Remote Staging Issues with Large Amounts of Data
legacy Troubleshooting
This article describes known issues that have been encountered when publishing large files using Remote Staging. Resolution Affected Products Liferay Portal 6.2 EE SP5-SP10 Known Issue: Invalid checksum for LAR file...
Liferay Portal 5.2 Documentation
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Liferay Portal 5.2 is a platform for creating effective business applications and solutions. It offers a robust feature set, impressive scalability, time-saving development tools, and...
Dockbar Display Error After Patch Installation With Patching Tool
legacy Troubleshooting
After installation of a new hotfix, the dockbar fails to display and an error message can be found in the logs: ERROR...
Changing the Storage Type When Using Dynamic Data List Data Definitions
legacy How To
When working with Dynamic Data Lists, it is possible to create your own data definition. By default, the Liferay platform stores the data definition as an xml, but you may also store...
Adding a Tag, Category, or Related Asset Does Not Increment the Version or Update the Time Stamp
legacy How To
This article documents a known issue with adding categories, tags or related assets to files in the Document and Media library. When you try to do this, a new version of the document...
Adding Portlets to Users' Private Pages By Default
legacy How To
This article describes how to add portlets to a user's private page by default. Resolution One way of achieving this is by creating a page anywhere in the portal with the pre-configured portlets you need, and...
Activating a Marketplace App Through a Proxy Server
legacy Troubleshooting
If a Marketplace app activation key is acquired via OrderId, the Liferay bundle will try to validate the key by accessing www.liferay.com. This is an issue if the server requires a forward proxy to access the...
No Logs in Elasticsearch
legacy Troubleshooting
This article documents a known issue with Elasticsearch operating mode when switching from REMOTE to EMBEDDED operation. Any changes in configuration do not take effect unless the...
Virtual LDAP Server Plugin Setup
legacy How To
The following article gives a basic use case for Liferay's Virtual LDAP Server Plugin. Liferay's EE Virtual LDAP plugin turns Liferay portal into a virtual LDAP server that can be accessed by external LDAP explorer...
Unable to Build a DXP 7.1 Theme in Developer Studio
legacy Troubleshooting
This article documents a known issue when building a theme in DXP 7.1, using Developer Studio 3.3. Steps to Reproduce Start Liferay Developer Studio 3.3 with a 7.1 workspace project. Go to New --> Liferay Module...
Utilizing the Validation Feature Within the Web Form Portlet
legacy How To
This article contains a brief example for how to effectively manage validation in the web forms portlet. Resolution Note that following the below reproduction steps (or something similar) will produce an error:...
Liferay Portal 6.1 Documentation
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Documentation Using Liferay Portal 6.1 Whitepapers Portlet and Feature Overview WCM Quick Start Guide  , content: Documentation Using Liferay Portal 6.1 Whitepapers Portlet and Feature Overview WCM Quick Start Guide  ,...
Site Template Use Cases
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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...
Inconsistent Check Interval Times Expires Web Content Articles Prematurely
legacy Troubleshooting
This article documents a known issue when configuring the Web Content check interval settings, and provides a workaround for the user. This known issue only affects Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.0. To configure...
Slow Publishing and Import Time for Site When Permissions Are Included in the LAR file
legacy Troubleshooting
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...
Unable to Include 'form' Attribute in Alloy Editor for the Web Content Portlet
legacy How To
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...
Setting up Solr on Linux with JBoss
legacy How To
This is an introductory guide to setting up Solr and then switching Liferay Portal's indexing method to Solr. Keep in mind that this is only one step in creating a cluster for use with...
Patching Tool 1.0.24
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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...
Setting Up Basic Facebook Authentication With Liferay Portal
legacy How To
This article will provide a step-by-step guide to configuring the Facebook login feature in Liferay Portal.   Resolution Create Facebook Developer Account To begin, you will need two facebook accounts; that is, a...
Special Characters Do Not Work in Friendly URL
legacy How To
Liferay platform "friendly URLs" allow you to create smaller, user-friendly URLs instead of the large, standard ones that the portlet creates. If you try using special characters in...
DXP Features Summary
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Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) has been redesigned to include new functionality. The following list is a summary of what is new to Liferay DXP. Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Foundation OSGi Open...
Setting Up OpenAM With Liferay Portal 6 on Tomcat
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Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. Liferay is not responsible for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. Any implementation of these...
Deployment Fails to Restart With Liferay Sync Connector 4.0.1
legacy Troubleshooting
This article documents a known issue that may arise while deploying Liferay Sync Connector 4.0.1 (the latest version at the time of this writing). If users deploy Sync Connector 4.0.1 .lpkg file on Liferay Digital...
Setting Up NTLM With Liferay
legacy How To
NTLM (NT Lan Manager) is a suite of Microsoft security protocols that provides authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users. When Liferay Portal is successfully integrated with NTLM, Active Directory users...
Setting Up Liferay Portal with Active Directory Server
legacy How To
The details of this article may also be covered in Configuring Liferay's LDAP Settings to Import Users. This article provides a comprehensive walkthrough for integrating an Active Directory Server with Liferay...
Using Liferay Connector to OAuth 2.0 in Liferay DXP 7.1
legacy How To
What is OAuth? It is a utility that authorizes third party applications to interact with the Liferay platform. The OAuth example from our official documentation is worth repeating here; users can make Twitter or...
Known Issues: Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Packs and Service Packs
legacy Troubleshooting
Note: This article is no longer maintained and is only made available for your reference. All the information in this article can now be found in the Liferay DXP Release Notes. This...
Publishing Individual Pages in a Staging Environment May Publish All Pages
legacy Troubleshooting
When publishing individual pages from a Staging environment to a Live environment, it is possible that upon publication, all pages in the Live environment may reflect changes. If this...
Using Application Display Templates on DXP 7.1
legacy How To
Application Display Templates Table of Contents Introduction to Application Display Templates (ADT) Working with an ADT: Media Gallery Using the API: Creating an ADT for Wiki Exporting / Importing ADTs Known Issues and...
Patching Liferay Portal When There Are Custom Apps Installed
legacy How To
Liferay Portal fix packs and hotfixes will often update, not only JSPs, but also classes. In order to ensure that your custom projects continue to use the most up-to-date code, please...
Notifications for Updated Versions of Plugins
legacy How To
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. When there...
Overriding Liferay's Default CSS for Individual Portlets
legacy How To
In custom environments, it may be necessary to apply custom styles to specific portlets. The example below gives guidance on how to override the Liferay Theme CSS in order to customize...
Roles and Permissions FAQ
legacy How To
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...
LSV-391: Security Advisory for Vulnerability With Pingback in Blogs
legacy How To
This advisory comes in response to the recent public announcement of a potential Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.0.4. The report talks about a perceived vulnerability for the...
Managing Expired and Future Scheduled Web Content
legacy
This article documents how the Web Content Display portlet is designed to display different versions of the same Web Content article. In particular, this article discusses the intended...
Making Liferay CAPTCHA Easier to Read in Liferay Portal 6.1
legacy How To
This article is intended for legacy versions of Liferay Portal CAPTCHA is an industry standard security measure that requires users to enter what they see a small window as part of the validation process when creating an...
ThreadLocal Leaking Caused by Usages of Netty in Elasticsearch
legacy
This article documents a possible known issue where there is ThreadLocal leak shown in the console logs when shutting down the application server:...
Hiding Portlets From Guests Who Do Not Have Permission to View It
legacy How To
When view permissions for guests are unchecked for a portlet, a guest will see the following message in the portlet: You do not have the roles required to access this portlet. While...
Group mapping required for LDAP export
legacy Troubleshooting
This article addresses one issue for Active Directory users attempting to log in to the Liferay platform. Liferay is configured for use with an LDAP server (without mapping the "Group"...
Known Issue: Error With URLs Leading With Period (.) in Tomcat 8.5
legacy Troubleshooting
Customers using Tomcat 8.5 and configuring the Liferay platform with URLs that have a leading period (.) may encounter the following error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: An invalid domain [.example.com] was specified...
Extension Environment Migration Tips
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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....
Embedding Videos in Web Content Articles on DXP 7.1+
legacy How To
This reference article describes several different ways to embed videos in Web Content Articles in Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1+. It is designed to supplement Liferay's Official Documentation on Publishing...
Defining Wiki Permissions
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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. Wiki...
Using Multiple Languages for Staging
legacy How To
This article outlines a practical suggestion for avoiding issues when using multiple languages in a site along with the Liferay platform’s staging feature. Following this suggestion will help prevent future staging...
Defining Encryption Algorithms for Passwords Stored in the Database
legacy How To
By default, Liferay encrypts the passwords that go into the database. The default algorithm is SHA-1 in 6.0 and 6.1 versions, which changed to PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1/160/128000 in version...
Communicate Standard for Using 'Live-Editable' Portlets for Staging
legacy How To
This article outlines a practical suggestion for keeping data in sync between the staging and live site for portlets that allow changes in both places. Following the workaround will help prevent staging publication...
Liferay's permissions.inline.sql.check.enabled property
legacy Troubleshooting
When searching, guest users are able to see highlighted folders, categories, and threads when they have no permission to view them. Resolution During search, Liferay runs a permission...