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Roles and Permissions
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Roles and Permissions To get things done in Liferay DXP, users must have the proper permissions. Roles join users with permissions. Most administrative work for roles and permissions is done in...
Configuring a Password Policy
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Configuring a Password Policy Password policies enhance the security of your installation. You can use the default policy that ships with Liferay (modified or as is), or you can create your own...
Creating and Managing Roles
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Creating and Managing Roles Once you understand roles and permissions, you can create the roles and empower your users to work within your Liferay DXP solution. Create and manage roles in Control...
Liferay's Default Cookies Reference
Liferay's Default Cookies Reference Strictly Necessary Cookies Cookie NamePurposeDuration COOKIE_SUPPORTStores the user's preference (true/false) to store cookies in the browser.365 Days...
Managing Third-Party Cookies
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Managing Third-Party Cookies Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Third-party cookies are generated by domains different from the one a user is currently visiting. These cookies are often used by...
Organizations
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Organizations Organizations in Liferay can enable distributed user and site management that reflects real world organizational hierarchies. Organizations can nest to an unlimited number of...
Creating and Managing Organizations
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Creating and Managing Organizations If you're not sure what Organizations are or whether you need them, start here. Adding Organizations Click Users and Organizations from Control Panel → Users....
Organization Roles
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Organization Roles Liferay Organizations provide a convenient way to implement distributed User management. With them, you can use Organization-scoped Roles to assign standard permissions to all...
Assigning Users to Roles
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Assigning Users to Roles The location of a role's assignment UI corresponds with the Role's scope. Regular Roles Globally scoped regular roles are available for configuration in the DXP Control...
Assigning Roles to User Segments
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Assigning Roles to User Segments Liferay DXP 7.2 SP2+, Liferay CE 7.3.1 GA2+ User segments are dynamically assigned user collections. If a segment can be well-defined with the available criteria,...
Default Roles Reference
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Default Roles Reference All roles available in a Liferay DXP installation can be viewed in the Roles administrative application, organized by scope. Navigate there using Control Panel → Users →...
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. ...
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...
Defining Role Permissions
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Defining Role Permissions Roles collect permissions, so when users are given a role, they inherit all its permissions. If you create a role with permission to access something in the Control...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 Earlier Liferay Versions on JBoss EAP
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on JBoss EAP Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring JBoss,...
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...
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...
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...
Installing Liferay On A Local Server
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Installing Liferay On A Local Server Liferay runs on an application server. There are three ways to host Liferay on a local machine: Using a Docker container Using a Liferay Tomcat bundle On a...
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 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. ...
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...
Liferay Cloud Native Provisioning
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Liferay Cloud Native Provisioning Liferay's cloud native experience is a Kubernetes-based Helm chart for portable deployment of Liferay instances to any cloud with a Kubernetes engine. This...
Liferay Helm Values Reference
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Liferay Helm Values Reference Helm is configured in YAML. Below are descriptions of the Liferay default Helm chart values. affinity: {} # Set Liferay DXP StatefulSet spec...
Running Liferay DXP in Amazon Web Services
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Running Liferay DXP in Amazon Web Services There are three ways to host Liferay DXP in AWS: Installing Liferay DXP using the plain Helm chart. Installing Liferay DXP from AWS Marketplace. ...
Configuring Internally Managed Services
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Configuring Internally Managed Services Internally managed services are configured and managed within the chart. These services are defined using the dependencies property: dependencies: : ...
AWS Managed Resources Reference
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AWS Managed Resources Reference By default, Liferay uses several managed services to run background operations when hosting in AWS. These resources facilitate the provisioning and continued use of...
Using GovCloud to run Liferay in AWS
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Using GovCloud to run Liferay in AWS Government entities can use GovCloud to provision Liferay in AWS. Subscribe to Liferay DXP Visit the AWS Marketplace. In Discover Products, find Liferay...
Using Marketplace Artifacts to Run Liferay in AWS
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Using Marketplace Artifacts to Run Liferay in AWS You can use AWS Marketplace artifacts to provision Liferay in AWS. Prerequisite Oras CLI (optional) Launch Liferay Set and export environment...
Using the AWS Chart to Run Liferay in AWS
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Using the AWS Chart to Run Liferay in AWS Using the AWS chart is a CLI-only method for provisioning Liferay in AWS. Launch Liferay Set and export an environment variable to hold the Liferay AWS...
Auto-Scaling in AWS
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Auto-Scaling in AWS Liferay's auto-scaling feature automatically creates and destroys replicas (nodes) in the Liferay cluster to optimize performance. You can choose the minimum and maximum number...
Configuring Externally Managed Services
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Configuring Externally Managed Services Externally managed services are created, configured, and managed outside the Liferay Helm chart. Database Configuring an external database for Liferay in...
Making Liferay Public in AWS
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Making Liferay Public in AWS Now that you have Liferay installed, all that's left is to make it publicly available and then configure HTTPS for secure communication. Install the nginx Ingress...
Configuring Liferay in AWS
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Configuring Liferay in AWS Since Liferay installations hosted in AWS use Helm, you must configure and customize Liferay using the Helm CLI. You can write as many .yaml files as you need. To update...
Viewing Metrics from Kubernetes
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Viewing Metrics from Kubernetes It is important to track resource usage in the Kubernetes cluster. To view your resource usage, you must use a collector and an exporter. Before you can view...
Viewing Metrics with Glowroot
Viewing Metrics with Glowroot This article describes how to use Glowroot in Liferay installations hosted in AWS. For information on how to set up Glowroot in other circumstances, see Using...
Maintaining a Liferay Installation
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Maintaining a Liferay Installation Starting with Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3+ and 7.4 GA1+, Liferay adopted a new release model for delivering updates and fixes. This new approach is referred to as Bundle...
Running Liferay on any Kubernetes Cluster
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Running Liferay on any Kubernetes Cluster These instructions are purposefully generic. They install a cluster that works on any Kubernetes implementation, but additional work is needed to make that...
Blue-Green Deployments
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Blue-Green Deployments Blue-green is a deployment technique in which you duplicate your production environment (the blue environment) and modify the duplicate (the green environment) with software...
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,...
Accessing DXP Patch Code
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Accessing DXP Patch Code Subscribers Liferay DXP Fix Pack and Hotfix source code is available in a private GitHub repository called liferay-dxp. The source code facilitates identifying and...
Slimming Down Patched Installations
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Slimming Down Patched Installations Subscribers In Liferay DXP 7.2, patch information is retained in Patch Files in the installation by default. This facilitates restoring DXP to a previous patch...
Backing Up
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Backing Up Once you have your DXP installation running, you should implement a comprehensive backup plan that accounts for unforeseen events. Backup copies are also valuable for testing updates...