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Installing Liferay on an Application Server
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Installing Liferay on an Application Server You can install Liferay DXP or Liferay Portal on any supported application server. This is typically the most practical installation type to use in...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Application Servers
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Application Servers As new Liferay versions are released, their dependencies and installation steps change. Liferay made a big change for DXP with the 2025.Q3...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Tomcat
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Tomcat Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the fastest way to get started using Liferay DXP. This...
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. ...
Service Accounts
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Service Accounts A service account is a common abstraction in systems used to make authenticated API requests on behalf of the system. Every virtual instance in Liferay comes with one service...
Standard Permissions
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Standard Permissions Liferay defines several standard permissions across various applications and resources, such as view, edit, update, and more. Managing permissions Permissions are best managed...
Creating and Managing User Groups
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Creating and Managing User Groups A user group is a list of users created for a specific purpose. User groups can be created across the hierarchical boundaries of organizations. For example, an...
Users
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Users Every person who accesses a Liferay site is considered a user. Unauthenticated users are considered Guest users. Liferay ships out-of-the-box with a default admin user who has complete...
Updating User Profile Pictures
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Updating User Profile Pictures Users have profile pictures. Administrative Users can upload images in the Edit User form, and Users can update their own account information, including profile...
Updating User Profile Pictures for Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions
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Updating User Profile Pictures for Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions Users have profile pictures. Administrative Users can upload images in the Edit User form, and Users can update their own account...
Understanding Roles and Permissions
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Understanding Roles and Permissions To give users the necessary permissions to perform their intended function within Liferay DXP, you must first associate the set of permissions with a role. ...
User Groups
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User Groups Creating and Managing User Groups Managing Site Membership and Permissions with User Groups User Group Sites
Managing Site Membership and Permissions with User Groups
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Managing Site Membership and Permissions with User Groups You can use user groups to manage site membership, roles, and permissions. Managing Site Membership with User Groups One of the primary...
User Group Sites
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User Group Sites With user group sites, you can create pages that are added automatically to each member’s personal site. These pages are organized into two page sets, My Profile (public) and My...
Adding and Managing Users
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Adding and Managing Users Core user management activities include adding, editing, and deleting users. These activities are typically restricted to Administrative users. Adding Users Open the...
Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrades
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Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrades Liferay's flexibility makes it possible to host it in any way you choose: on any Kubernetes-based cloud platform via Helm charts and Terraform scripts, on...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebLogic
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebLogic Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below If you are using WebLogic as your application server, it is highly recommended to install DXP to a...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Wildfly
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Wildfly Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.1 or below Installing on WildFly requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring WildFly, and...
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 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...
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...
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,...
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...
Deploying WARs (WAB Generator)
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Deploying WARs (WAB Generator) You can create applications as Java EE-style Web Application ARchive (WAR) artifacts or as Java ARchive (JAR) OSGi bundle artifacts. Bean Portlets, PortletMVC4Spring...
Exporting Packages
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Exporting Packages In OSGi, packages are private by default. You must explicitly exporting a package so other modules can import and use them. Here's how to export packages: Open your bnd.bnd...
Semantic Versioning
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Semantic Versioning Semantic Versioning is a three tiered versioning system for incrementing version numbers based on the degree of API change made in a releasable software component. It's a...
Gogo Shell Commands
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Gogo Shell Commands The Gogo shell executes Felix Gogo basic commands and Liferay commands. The Gogo shell is accessible in the Control Panel (recommended) and from the command line. Here are some...
Importing Packages
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Importing Packages You often find yourself in a position of needing functionality provided by another module. To access this functionality, you must import packages from other modules into your...
JARs Excluded from WABs
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JARs Excluded from WABs [Liferay-generated web application bundles (WABs) are stripped of third party JARs that contain packages that Liferay exports already. Deploying the same third party...
Using an OSGi Service
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Using an OSGi Service Liferay APIs are readily available as OSGi services. You can access a service by creating a field of that service type and annotating the field with @Reference, like this: ...
Digital Asset Management
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Digital Asset Management Use Liferay’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) features to store, organize, and reuse documents, images, and other media across your site. The Documents and Media library...
DevOps
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DevOps :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: Local Integrations Configuring Documents and Media Previews Enabling Antivirus Scanning for Uploaded Files Configuring Cache Control for Documents and Media...
Module Projects
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Module Projects Liferay applications and customizations are OSGi modules: .jar files containing Java code and some extra configuration for publishing and consuming APIs. A module project comprises...
Exported Third Party Packages
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Exported Third Party Packages Liferay provides over one-hundred third party Java packages at run time. The com.liferay.portal.bootstrap module exports the packages by specifying individual packages...
Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies
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Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies An application can rely on multiple OSGi modules. Resolving their Java package dependencies can be challenging. In a perfect world, every package...
Developer Guide
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Developer Guide This guide provides comprehensive information and references to help you effectively use the Document API, understand adaptive media modules, and create video shortcut providers.
Creating Video Shortcut Providers
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Creating Video Shortcut Providers Liferay DXP 7.4+ By default, Liferay's external video shortcuts support YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Twitch. However, you can extend this feature to support...
Specifying Dependencies
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Specifying Dependencies You must satisfy all dependencies to compile and deploy a module successfully. After you find the dependency artifacts, add them as dependencies in your Gradle build file....
Finding Artifacts
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Finding Artifacts To use external artifacts in your project, you must configure their dependencies in your build.gradle Gradle script. Before specifying an artifact as a dependency, you must first...
Using the Gogo Shell
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Using the Gogo Shell The Gogo shell provides a way to interact with the module framework. Among other things, you can Dynamically install/uninstall bundles (modules) Examine package...
Command Line Gogo Shell
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Command Line Gogo Shell If you're in a development environment, you can interact with the module framework locally from the command line. Gogo shell should only be run from the command line in...
Adaptive Media Modules Reference
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Adaptive Media Modules Reference Adaptive Media's Modules Some modules in the Adaptive Media app are mandatory and must be enabled for Adaptive Media to function, while others can be disabled. The...
Enabling LibreOffice / OpenOffice Integration
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Enabling LibreOffice / OpenOffice Integration LibreOffice and OpenOffice are open source productivity suites that you can integrate with Liferay. By default Liferay includes PDFBox, which generates...
Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews
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Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews Documents and Media provides integration with the FFmpeg multimedia framework for generating audio and video file previews. To use this integration, you...
Setting Storage Quotas for Documents and Media
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Setting Storage Quotas for Documents and Media You can define storage quotas in Documents and Media by enabling the data.limit.dl.storage.max.size portal property. Once you define a value for this...
Creating SharePoint Repositories in Documents and Media
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Creating SharePoint Repositories in Documents and Media Once you've added a SharePoint OAuth2 configuration, you can use it to create repositories in Documents and Media that are mounted to...
Documents and Media
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Documents and Media The Documents and Media application stores and manages files in your Liferay instance. This includes files uploaded directly to Documents and Media, as well as those uploaded in...
Generating Images Using AI
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Generating Images Using AI Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ The Documents and Media application provides integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT engine using the AI Creator tool. With an OpenAI API...
Accessing Documents with WebDAV
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Accessing Documents with WebDAV You can access the Document Library from your desktop file manager via WebDAV. WebDAV is a protocol based on HTTP for managing files stored on web servers. WebDAV is...
Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Google Drive
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Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Google Drive Liferay DXP provides integration with Google Drive so you can create and edit Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides via the Documents and Media...
Enabling Links to Google Drive Documents
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Enabling Links to Google Drive Documents Liferay supports Google Drive in Documents and Media. When enabled, you can create shortcuts to your Google Drive files that enable you to view and manage...
Enabling Liferay's REST Connector to SharePoint
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Enabling Liferay's REST Connector to SharePoint Requires DXP Subscription; Compatible with SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online Liferay's REST Connector to SharePoint integrates Documents and...
Publishing and Sharing
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Publishing and Sharing
Managing Document Access
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Managing Document Access Effectively managing document access in Liferay ensures that your organization’s data remains secure while being accessible to the right users. Control document access by...
Using Adapted Images in Site Content
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Using Adapted Images in Site Content Adaptive Media operates in the background to create multiple resolutions for images uploaded to Liferay DXP. When used in blogs, web content, or content pages,...
Using Workflow with Documents and Media
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Using Workflow with Documents and Media Documents and Media is fully integrated with Liferay's workflow engine. This means you can define custom review and approval processes for your files. In...
Adaptive Media Configuration Reference
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Adaptive Media Configuration Reference Liferay 7.3 U28+/GA28+ and 7.4 U78+/GA78+ With Adaptive Media, you can configure supported media types, determine the resolutions used for previews and...
Managing Image Resolutions
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Managing Image Resolutions You can manage adapted image resolutions via the Adaptive Media application. This includes manually generating adapted images, disabling/enabling resolutions, as well as...
Uploading and Managing
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Uploading and Managing Use your Liferay environment to upload and manage digital assets. This section covers topics from the basics of uploading files to advanced management of digital documents...
Adding Image Resolutions
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Adding Image Resolutions By default, Adaptive Media includes two image resolutions: preview and thumbnail. You can define additional image resolutions to help optimize site performance for common...