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Creating Web Content Structures
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Creating Web Content Structures Create web content structures to serve as building blocks for web content articles and determine the information you can include when writing them. To create a web...
Managing Web Content Structures
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Managing Web Content Structures You can manage structures from the structures page: Open the Site Menu (Site Menu) and go to Content & Data → Web Content. Select the Structures tab. Open the...
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...
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 →...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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 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...
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...
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 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 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 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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 Prometheus
Viewing Metrics with Prometheus The Liferay Helm chart is prepared to set up the Prometheus JMX Exporter project agent out-of-the-box. Set the JMX_AGENT_YAML environment variable to the following...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Migrating Liferay Instances
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Migrating Liferay Instances Liferay DXP 2025.Q2+/Portal GA148+ [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) You can...
Maintaining Clustered Installations
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Maintaining Clustered Installations Setting up your Liferay DXP installation to function in a cluster provides performance and scalability improvements, but also requires additional consideration...
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...
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...
Performing Rolling Restarts
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Performing Rolling Restarts The rolling restart cluster maintenance process involves shutting down and updating nodes one at a time (while the other nodes are running) until they're all updated....
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,...