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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,...
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. ...
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...
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....
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...
Configuring the Patching Tool
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Configuring the Patching Tool Subscribers The Patching Tool can be adapted to any DXP installation. The tool's auto-discovery option is the easiest way to configure the Patching Tool. If you...
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...
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...
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. ...
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)...
Database Templates
Database Templates Below are templates (example portal properties and Docker environment variables) for configuring various databases as a built-in data source for Liferay DXP. MariaDB Portal...
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...
Liferay Software Versions
Liferay Software Versions Starting with Liferay 7.4, Liferay adopted a rolling release model for delivering updates and fixes. This means Liferay 7.4 is a long living release with many releases for...
Portal Properties
Portal Properties Configuration options are specified using Portal Properties, sets of name/value pairs read from properties files and Docker environment variables on server startup. Default values...
Updating Liferay
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Updating Liferay Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3+/Portal 7.4 GA1+ Update your Liferay installation with Bundle Releases. The latest features, security releases, as well as library updates are all delivered...
Reference
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Reference When installing Liferay, you must take into consideration the specifics of your environment. These topics help you integrate Liferay into your existing environment and aid in...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Activating Liferay DXP
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Activating Liferay DXP Subscription Required Liferay DXP is activated using an XML (.xml) activation key. It specifies your DXP subscription terms or trial agreement. When you run Liferay DXP for...
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...
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) ...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
User Groups
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User Groups Creating and Managing User Groups Managing Site Membership and Permissions with User Groups User Group Sites
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: : ...