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Patching Tool v21
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Since the release of the last Patching Tool v20, we have been busy implementing new improvements that will enhance the user experience as well as the Support engineers’ ability to assist users. Starting with version 21, the Patching Tool will log the installed patch levels of your portal...
Addressing the 'WARNING: Some of the currently installed fixes are not available' Patching-Tool Error
legacy Troubleshooting
When attempting to install patches with the Patching-Tool Install command, an error message is generated, which states:  Running install would revert some of the previous fixes. Installation process is stopped. Resolution The patching-tool generates this warning to indicate that there...
Liferay Sync Frequently Asked Questions
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Information about products not created by Liferay is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute Liferay Support recommendation nor endorsement. Liferay also does not assume any responsibility for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. This...
Introduction to AlloyUI
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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 While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This article provides you with three things: A basic description of AlloyUI Outlines some of the benefits of using...
Special Characters Do Not Work in Friendly URL
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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 the friendly URL, such as changing /web/guest/home with any combination of special characters, they do not...
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 Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) is a framework that allows for modular...
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 principles is the responsibility of the subscriber. This article will...
Deployment Fails to Restart With Liferay Sync Connector 4.0.1
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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 Experience Platform (DXP) 7.0, there may be an error which will cause the...
Setting Up NTLM With Liferay
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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 who are logged in will be able to seamlessly log into Liferay Portal....
Setting Up Liferay Portal with Active Directory Server
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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 Portal. By integrating Active Directory with Liferay Portal, you will be able...
Using Liferay Connector to OAuth 2.0 in Liferay DXP 7.1
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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 Facebook available on Liferay Portal or DXP. Instead of entering your...
Known Issues: Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Packs and Service Packs
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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 article documents a list of known issues that exist in Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Packs and Service Packs. Fix...
Publishing Individual Pages in a Staging Environment May Publish All Pages
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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 happens, it is likely the case that Web Content Articles were published incorrectly. Resolution When...
Using Application Display Templates on DXP 7.1
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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 Troubleshooting Resolution Introduction Application display templates...
Patching Liferay Portal When There Are Custom Apps Installed
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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 follow these guidelines Resolution Use the latest Patching Tool found here: Patching Tool download page....
Notifications for Updated Versions of Plugins
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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. When there are updates to plugins in the Liferay Marketplace, it is possible to receive on-screen notifications...
Overriding Liferay's Default CSS for Individual Portlets
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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 portlets to fit requirements. Resolution Affected Products Liferay Portal 6.0 EE SP2 and above Please...
Roles and Permissions FAQ
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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 site Members to have permissions to add content to a page. How can I...
LSV-391: Security Advisory for Vulnerability With Pingback in Blogs
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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 pingback functionality in the blogs feature of the product. You can find a...
Managing Expired and Future Scheduled Web Content
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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 behaviors for expired or those scheduled for future display. Resolution Content creators often create...
Making Liferay CAPTCHA Easier to Read in Liferay Portal 6.1
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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 account. Only human users are able to see the contents. Liferay has...
ThreadLocal Leaking Caused by Usages of Netty in Elasticsearch
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This article documents a possible known issue where there is ThreadLocal leak shown in the console logs when shutting down the application server: org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkThreadLocalMapForLeaks The web application [ROOT] created a ThreadLocal with key of...
Hiding Portlets From Guests Who Do Not Have Permission to View It
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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 this is one way to handle guests who don't have access to the portlet, it is also possible to hide this...
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" attribute in the User section) LDAP export is enabled LDAP user, "user1" is able to log in to Liferay...
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 for this cookie Resolution Please...
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. Ext-plugins were created to replace the extension environment that was used in Liferay 5.2.x EE and previous...
Embedding Videos in Web Content Articles on DXP 7.1+
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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 Web Content and optimizing your content using structures and templates....
Vocabulary and Category Management for Staging
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This article outlines a practical suggestion for managing the use of categories and vocabularies in a way that prevents publication errors due to dependencies.  Resolution When working within a site, a user may select vocabularies from both the current site as well as the global site....
Page Reordering for Staging
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This article outlines a practical suggestion for performing a page reordering in a staged environment. Following the suggestion below will ensure that pages are reordered without the publish taking an inordinate amount of time.  Resolution When reordering pages within a staged site, a...
Spring Framework Security Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1270, CVE-2018-1271, CVE-2018-1272
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QUESTION: How are Liferay Digital Enterprise 7.0 and Liferay Portal affected by the Spring Framework Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1270, CVE-2018-1271, and CVE-2018-1272? Resolution Impact to Liferay CVE-2018-1270: Liferay Portal 6.2 and Digital Enterprise 7.0 are not affected because they...
Disabling the Authentication System and Delegating It to an LDAP Server
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By default, the Liferay platform always uses its own authentication system that checks and validates the user password in its own database. Even if you enable LDAP settings and set it as required, the Liferay platform will always check and validate the user password in its own database...
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 Permissions can be "layered" because of the multiple permission levels that can go into accessing Wiki...
Using Multiple Languages for Staging
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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 publication failures.  Resolution When utilizing multiple languages...
Defining Encryption Algorithms for Passwords Stored in the Database
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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 6.2. The encryption algorithm can be changed and even turned off via the portal-ext.properties. Because...
Communicate Standard for Using 'Live-Editable' Portlets for Staging
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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 errors and failure. Resolution Generally, if staging is enabled for a...
Creating Numeric Screen Names
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This article describes how numeric screennames can be used in Liferay Portal. Resolution Set the following property to true in the portal-ext.properties file that will override the default functionality of being unable to create numeric screennames. # Set this to true when you want the...
Patch Management Best Practices
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The principles below are adopted from general industry standard patch management best practices. Following these will help mitigate the risk of change on production servers. Awareness Liferay communicates the availability of maintenance updates for Liferay products through Announcements....
Configuring Lucene to Reindex Less Aggressively on Liferay Portal
legacy Troubleshooting
In Liferay Portal, after completing a large LDAP import, performance may suffer because Lucene is set to re-index after every change. For example, if there are 15,000 users, Lucene will perform an index after each user is added, which will result in 15,000 index commits. This slows down...
Limitations When Using Pjax to Render Embedded Content
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This article describes a fundamental product limitation when pjax is used to render programmatically nested content in Liferay platforms. (Pjax is a jQuery plugin, a standalone JavaScript module that uses AJAX (XmlHttpRequest) and pushState() to deliver a fast browsing experience.) This...
Correcting Translations in the Liferay Platform
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When installing Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.0 or any Liferay Portal version, portal administrators have the option to leverage any of the translations that come with the default installation. This article outlines the best way/s to correct these translations. Resolution...
Configuring LDAP to Ignore Attributes During the Import Process
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This article describes how specific LDAP attributes can be ignored during LDAP user import. Sometimes, users may change some information on the Liferay Portal. When the next scheduled LDAP import is executed, it will overwrite the user-made change. To ensure the change is not...
Changing the Default Title or Description of a Portlet System-wide
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The title of a portlet is determined by the language properties files and may be changed system-wide by using a language ext properties file similar to portal-ext.properties. Resolution To demonstrate how to change the portlet titles, this article we will seek to change the title of...
Splitting Blog Information Into Different Pages
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Through the Blog Portlet, there is a unique functionality where Blog information can be split into different pages. Resolution To achieve this functionality, start by going to the wrench in the portlet and scoping the portlet to the specific page. This would make the scoped portlet...
Optimizing Lucene
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In most cases, optimizing Lucene is helpful; in larger deployments it is a necessity. This article aims to explain the relevant settings for optimizing Lucene and provide links to further information. It must be mentioned, though, that this service is not supported by Liferay...
Configuring the automatic email notification URLs to display the correct port number
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When an email notification is sent out, the template for the message may not be referencing the correct port within the URL. For example, the email may show the URL as "http://www.liferay.com:8080" instead of port 80. Resolution To resolve this issue, add the following properties to the...
AIX License Deployment Issue
legacy Troubleshooting
When using the AIX operating system with Liferay Portal 6.1, a license may fail to deploy, giving the output: License is in use by another instance. Resolution This license issue is due to a known issue with AIX, in which neither ipconfig nor ifconfig will return the mac address for the...
Message Boards Issue When Configuring With HTML and Creating Hyperlinks With the 'Other' Designation
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This article documents a known behavior where Message Boards' CKEditor—when configured to HTML—will have text stripped from hyperlinks after a post. This is usually observed after setting the protocol to Other. Resolution This behavior is expected under Liferay DXP's Antisamy...
Liferay's permissions.inline.sql.check.enabled property
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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 check on each of the results to see if the user that is searching has rights to view the result in...
Liferay Portal Activation Key Deployment Instructions for versions 5.2 SP5 to 6.0.X
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Activation Key deployment for Liferay Portal versions 5.2.9 (Service Pack 5) to 6.0.x is different from key deployment for Liferay versions 5.2 SP4 and earlier. Activation keys are no longer generated based off the Server ID. Instead, you'll need an .xml key file. This file will be...
Elasticsearch and Liferay Enterprise Search Security Advisory: CVE-2018-3831
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CVE-2018-3831 reports that, "Elasticsearch Alerting and Monitoring in versions before 6.4.1 or 5.6.12 have an information disclosure issue when secrets are configured via the API. The Elasticsearch _cluster/settings API, when queried, could leak sensitive configuration information such...
Excluding User Groups Not Part of the BaseDN In LDAP Import
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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. In older versions of Liferay Portal (e.g. 5.1.x, 5.2 EE SP3), by default, Liferay will import all user groups a...
Apache Struts 2 Vulnerability: CVE-2017-9805 and CVE-2017-12611 - REST XStream FreeMarker
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The following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) have been reported for Apache Struts 2: CVE-2017-9805 CVE-2017-12611 CVE-2018-1327 - REST XStream FreeMarker CVE-2018-11776 How are Liferay DXP (both 7.0 and 7.1) and Liferay Portal affected by the Apache Struts 2 Vulnerability?...
JSESSIONID Changes as Part of Liferay Security
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This article documents Liferay's position regarding the Session Identifier (JSESSIONID), including how and why a new JSESSIONID is generated.  Resolution Customers doing their own security scan of the Liferay platform might have noticed that a new JSESSIONID may have been generated....
Java NPEs in the Console When Refreshing the CAPTCHA Image
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This article documents a known issue where refreshing the CAPTCHA image causes a Java NullPointerException (NPE) to be triggered. Please note that the CAPTCHA image will still be refreshed. Steps to Reproduce Start the Liferay Digital Enterprise 7.0 platform. Click the Sign In link at...
Open LDAP setup guide
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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 principles is the responsibility of the subscriber. This article contains a...
Cookies Issue Related to Two-Character Domain Names While Using Internet Explorer
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This article documents an issue that has been reported by some users working on Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP). It is a cookies issue that has been reported, and the issue arises when using certain versions of Internet Explorer behind a two-character domain...
Using the 'getOriginalServlet' Function to Retrieve the Default Query String in DXP 7.0
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This article serves as a reference guide on how to use the getOriginalServletRequest function to get the default queryString when using the OSGi framework. Developers familiar with Liferay Portal 6.2 EE and now using DXP 7.0 (also 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3) will find that certain requests are now...
WeDeploy Auth Admin Portlet in Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Packs
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When deploying Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 24, 25, 26 or 27, the WeDeploy Auth Admin portlet will appear in the Control Panel. WeDeploy is currently a beta product. The addition of this portlet will have no impact or security risk.  Installing an affected fix pack will result in the...
Configuring Theme-Embedded Portlets After Deploying Security-Hotfix-11-6012
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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. Security-hotfix-11-6012, which is available for Liferay Portal 6.0 EE SP2, is preventing embedded portlets from...
Changes in Wiki Syntax Parsing from 6.0 EE SP1 to 6.0 EE SP2
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In Liferay Portal 6.0 EE SP2, a new Creole parser for the Wiki portlet has been implemented and changed how links are parsed. For example, previously in 6.0 EE SP1, links using single brackets like "[ ]" will redirect the user to a new Wiki page. In 6.0 EE SP2 and newer versions, links...

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