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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...
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...
LDAP Configuration Reference
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LDAP Configuration Reference To access LDAP configuration settings, open the Global Menu (Applications Menu icon) and navigate to Control Panel → Configuration → Instance Settings → Security →...
Configuring the Anonymous User
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Configuring the Anonymous User Internet users are increasingly and justifiably concerned about how their personal data is processed by the systems they use. Liferay is aware of the need for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Managing Privacy Settings
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Managing Privacy Settings You can ensure GDPR compliance for your cookies and collect administrator usage data (such as Control Panel and Product Menu interactions) using Liferay's configuration...
Exporting User Data
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Exporting User Data One of the General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR) tenets is that Users have a right to data portability. Data portability means that users have the right to receive their...
Connecting to an LDAP Directory
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Connecting to an LDAP Directory Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers are common user stores for Liferay DXP. You can configure LDAP at the system scope in System Settings or at the...
Managing User Data (GDPR)
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Managing User Data (GDPR) Liferay's User Associated Data (UAD) framework assists you in meeting two of the General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR) technically challenging requirements: The...
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...
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 Sites
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Organization Sites Liferay Organizations enable distributed User management, providing a convenient way to organize and manage instance users and roles to reflect your organizational hierarchy....
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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 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...
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...
Using OpenID Connect
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Using OpenID Connect OpenID Connect is a lightweight authentication layer that enables users to authenticate using accounts they have on other systems. It's built on top of the OAuth 2.0...
Using Authentication Verifiers
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Using Authentication Verifiers Authentication Verifiers authenticate remote invocations of Liferay Portal's API in a centralized and extensible way. They have two main responsibilities: Verify...
Using Workflow with Accounts
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Using Workflow with Accounts Liferay 7.4 U49+/GA49+ Accounts are fully integrated with Liferay's workflow engine, so you can enable an approval process for account creation. To enable a workflow...
Connecting to a User Directory
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Connecting to a User Directory LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a common user store for Liferay DXP. You can import user information from an LDAP server into Liferay or export...
Sanitizing User Data
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Sanitizing User Data One of the technically challenging requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the right to be forgotten. The purpose here is not to go into the details of...
Adding a New Organization Type
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Adding a New Organization Type By default, Liferay DXP only includes the Organization type. You can configure the existing type or add additional types in System Settings → Users → Organization...
Adding Users to Organizations
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Adding Users to Organizations With Liferay organizations, you can manage users and permissions to model your real-life organizational hierarchy, which can then be quickly implemented in...
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,...
Users and Permissions
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Users and Permissions Liferay comes with a comprehensive framework to manage user access and roles within Liferay. To support complex organizational needs, there are several entities within the...
Accounts
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Accounts Available 7.4+ Accounts provide administrators with a way to organize and manage users for various commerce or business needs. Unlike organizations or user groups, accounts help...
AntiSamy
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AntiSamy Liferay DXP includes an AntiSamy module that protects against user-entered malicious code. If your site allows users to post content in message boards, blogs, or other applications, these...
Setting Channel Defaults
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Setting Channel Defaults Liferay 7.4 U49+/GA49+ Users with the necessary account management permissions can set channel defaults for business accounts. Open the Global Menu ( Global Menu ) and...
Configuring User Import and Export
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Configuring User Import and Export The import/export settings configure mappings between LDAP and Liferay to match users between the two systems. Finding Users in Your LDAP Directory...
Account Users
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Account Users For Liferay 7.4 U55+/GA55+ Once you've created an account, you can associate existing users with it manually. Alternatively, you can create and associate users with an account...
Account Management Widget
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Account Management Widget Available 7.4+ Use Account Management widget to manage and access account information from any page. This provides access for those without permission to view the Control...
Adding Subtypes to Account Addresses
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Adding Subtypes to Account Addresses Liferay DXP 2025.Q2+ In addition to billing and shipping address types, administrators can define and assign custom subtypes for account addresses. This...
Contacts
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Contacts Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ Using the new Contact tab on an account, you can add contact details related to the account: Addresses Phone Numbers Email Addresses Websites ...
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...
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...
Configuring Containers
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Configuring Containers Everything that is configurable in a Liferay installation is configurable in a Liferay Docker container. Here are the most common things to configure: JVM Options Portal...
Docker Image Versions
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Docker Image Versions Liferay Docker image tags begin with a Liferay software version and end with an image version. [Liferay software version] [image version] For example, Liferay DXP 7.4.13...
Docker Packages
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Docker Packages These are the packages Liferay installs in the Ubuntu OS to support a full Liferay DXP environment. This list includes neither the JDK nor the dependencies the packages require. ...
Building Liferay Docker Images
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Building Liferay Docker Images Liferay is open-source and fully customizable. You can create your own Liferay Docker images using Dockerfiles to suit the needs of your installation. For example,...
Container Lifecycle and API
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Container Lifecycle and API At a high level, the container starts Tomcat with Liferay deployed on it. Additionally, however, the container entry point provides an API for executing these use cases:...
Installing Apps and Other Artifacts to Containers
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Installing Apps and Other Artifacts to Containers Applications and other artifacts (such as DXP activation keys) are installed to DXP Docker containers via the container's /mnt/liferay/deploy...
Adding a Site
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Adding a Site Sites are customizable spaces within Liferay, designed for building personalized digital experiences that engage specific audiences and meet unique organizational goals. Creating a...
Creating Pages
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Creating Pages Pages form the foundation of your site's content and user experience. With Liferay, you can create dynamic and engaging web experiences using flexible, low-code tools to define...
Licensing DXP in Docker
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Licensing DXP in Docker If you're using a DXP trial license that's expiring or you have a new license (activation key) you must install, you can replace your container's existing license. Here's...
Using the Full Page Application Page Type
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Using the Full Page Application Page Type Create a new page and select Full Page Application under Other. Enter a name and click Add. Under Layout, select the Full Page Application you want...
Adding a Page to a Site
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Adding a Page to a Site Adding and customizing pages is a key part of managing your Liferay site. You can add pages using the Pages application or through the Page Tree menu. For Liferay 7.4 U22+...
Adding Pages
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Adding Pages Managing a Liferay site involves adding and customizing pages to deliver content and create a personalized user experience. Learn how to create new pages and child pages from the...
Upgrading to a New Docker Image
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Upgrading to a New Docker Image As new Liferay versions are released as Docker images, you can upgrade to them. Upgrading Liferay describes the process. Always back up your data and installation...