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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 →...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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...
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....
Custom Code and Patch Compatibility
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Custom Code and Patch Compatibility Subscribers If you deploy code that customizes or patches your DXP 7.2 installation, you must maintain its compatibility with all patches you're using. The...
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...
Advanced Patching for DXP 7.2
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Advanced Patching for DXP 7.2 Here are the DXP 7.2 advanced patching topics: Using Slim Bundles demonstrates conserving disk space by using DXP fix pack bundles that don't include Patch Files. ...
Applying a Hotfix
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Applying a Hotfix Subscribers A Hotfix is a fix or collection of fixes delivered between Updates (or between Fix Packs for versions before DXP 7.3 SP3) to address a customer's confirmed critical...
Using Slim Bundles
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Using Slim Bundles Subscribers Liferay DXP 7.2 Fix Packs and Service Packs are also released bundled with the Tomcat application server. They are available as traditional bundles and Slim Bundles....
System Properties
System Properties Liferay DXP/Portal runs in the application server's JVM. System properties can be passed directly to the JVM as arguments to java in the format -D[name1]=[value1] or can be loaded...
Database Configuration
Database Configuration 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,...
Uninstalling Patches
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Uninstalling Patches Subscribers After you install a patch, you may decide to restore your installation to a previous patch level. Here you'll learn how to Uninstall Patches Revert (uninstall)...
Getting Patch Information
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Getting Patch Information Subscribers You can see patch information at a glance, which helps maintain your installation and get help from Liferay Support. The Patching Tool's info command lists...
Installing Patches in Earlier Versions
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Installing Patches in Earlier Versions Subscribers The Patching Tool applies Fix Packs (including Security Fix Packs and Service Packs) for versions prior to Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3. It also applies...
Portal Developer Properties
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Portal Developer Properties There are Portal Properties that facilitate development. Liferay's portal-developer.properties file includes all of them. The portal-developer.properties file is enabled...
Updating Previous Versions of Liferay
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Updating Previous Versions of Liferay Staying current with updates gives you the best security and quality. Security Updates are releases that address the latest security issues immediately. ...
Liferay Home
Liferay Home Liferay Home is the folder from which Liferay DXP/Portal launches applications, reads and applies configurations, loads JAR files, generates logs, and more. Liferay Home's location...
Installing the Patching Tool
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Installing the Patching Tool Subscribers The Patching Tool is easy to install and update. Installation Download the Patching Tool from the Customer Portal. For DXP 7.3+, download the latest...
JVM Configuration
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JVM Configuration As of Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA125+, Liferay DXP/Portal requires a Java JDK 17 or 21 (prior versions support JDKs 8 and 11) with specific JVM option settings. There are also...
Configuring Cluster Link
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Configuring Cluster Link Enabling Cluster Link activates distributed caching. The cache is distributed across multiple Liferay DXP nodes running concurrently. Cluster Link uses Ehcache replication....
Setting Up Liferay
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Setting Up Liferay After installing Liferay, configure it to meet your needs. Here are common setup tasks. Setup Tasks Preconfigure the System Activate Liferay (Subscription Required) ...
Clustering for High Availability
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Clustering for High Availability Liferay DXP can scale to serve everything from the smallest to the largest web sites. Out-of-the-box, it's configured optimally for a single server environment. If...
Liferay DXP 2024.Q2 Breaking Changes
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Liferay DXP 2024.Q2 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay DXP 2024.Q2. As the...
Using a CDN
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Using a CDN A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a distributed infrastructure for caching static, file-based content. When visitors hit your site, your static content is loaded from the server...
Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes
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Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes At minimum, nodes in a DXP cluster must be configured to share the same database (or database cluster) in order to function. Optimizations discussed here...
Tuning Liferay
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Tuning Liferay There are several ways to tune Liferay's performance. This involves configuring the Java Virtual Machine and frameworks that support the Liferay application, monitoring performance...
Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth
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Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth Liferay DXP 7.4 U79+/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA79+ Connect your Microsoft email service to Liferay with the use of OAuth 2.0 authorization. Note, Microsoft...
Liferay DXP 2024.Q3 Breaking Changes
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Liferay DXP 2024.Q3 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay DXP 2024.Q3. As the...
Session Replication with Tomcat
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Session Replication with Tomcat Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA92+ To ensure user session data is synchronized across all instances in the cluster, Liferay supports session replication. If one...
Initial Instance Localization
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Initial Instance Localization Liferay DXP supports localization by language, time zone, and more. The English (US) language translation and GMT time zone are the defaults, but DXP has over 40...
2024 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
2024 Deprecations and Breaking Changes Liferay quarterly releases introduce new features and enhancements while phasing out older or less-used functionality. Some features move to Maintenance Mode,...
Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster
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Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster A fast, easy way to learn DXP clustering is to set up a two node DXP cluster environment on one machine using Docker containers. This example creates two DXP...
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in Liferay DXP 2024.Q3
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in Liferay DXP 2024.Q3 Features moved to Maintenance Mode or marked as Deprecated in Liferay DXP 2024.Q3 appear here. For details about these statuses and their...
Data Cleanup
Data Cleanup Before database upgrades, Liferay executes data cleanup processes to repair databases with obsolete data. This lightens the load of the upgrade tool, improving performance and reducing...
Database Tuning for Upgrades
Database Tuning for Upgrades Performing an upgrade impacts the database differently from daily running in production. Because of this, you should tune your database for the upgrade process before...
Example: Removing Intermediate Journal Article Versions
Example: Removing Intermediate Journal Article Versions These instructions and code samples demonstrate removing intermediate Journal Article versions. In the script console, you can remove...
Troubleshooting Upgrades
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Troubleshooting Upgrades Liferay has many out-of-the-box tools and features to identify and solve issues that may arise when performing an upgrade. To troubleshoot, you can upgrade modules...
7.2 Breaking Changes
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7.2 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in 7.3
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in 7.3 With each new DXP release, a feature may not warrant continued enhancements or may become obsolete. Stopping enhancements for a feature puts it in...
7.4 Breaking Changes
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7.4 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay 7.4, starting with the latest quarterly...
Renamed Language Keys
Renamed Language Keys In Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4, module language keys were centralized to a module called portal-language-lang. Source location: ...
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in 7.2
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in 7.2 With each new DXP release, a feature may not warrant continued enhancements or may become obsolete. Stopping enhancements for a feature puts it in...
Post-Upgrade Considerations
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Post-Upgrade Considerations After upgrading the database, you should configure Liferay for production again and check up on feature changes that might affect your Liferay instance. Re-enable...
Common Upgrade Issues
Common Upgrade Issues Skipping an upgrade step or creating custom references to the Liferay database, can cause upgrade issues. The following questions and answers address some common situations. ...
Definitions
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Definitions There are four types of definitions: Individuals: attributes of individuals accessing your site Events: default and custom actions that happen on your site Event Attributes:...