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Updating Previous Versions of Liferay
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. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Migrating Liferay Instances
Migrating Liferay Instances Liferay DXP 2025.Q2+/Portal GA148+ [Beta Feature](https://learn.liferay.com/web/guest/w/dxp/system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags#beta-feature-flags) ...
Published Date: Apr 25, 2025 4:46 PM
Reference
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
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,...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
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...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Maintaining Clustered Installations
Maintaining Clustered Installations Setting up your Liferay DXP installation to function in a cluster provides performance and scalability improvements, but also requires additional consideration...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Performing Rolling Restarts
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....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Patching Earlier DXP Versions
Patching Earlier DXP Versions Liferay DXP uses Bundle Releases for its latest releases. Please see [Updating Liferay](./updating-liferay.md) if you are applying an Update. All Hotfixes are patches....
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Using Slim Bundles
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....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Installing Patches
Installing Patches 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 Hotfixes for any DXP...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Understanding Patch Types
Understanding Patch Types Subscribers The Liferay Support Team creates and releases fixes to issues discovered in DXP. The fixes are packaged in ZIP files referred to generally as patches. There...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Blue-Green Deployments
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Advanced Patching for DXP 7.2
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. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Custom Code and Patch Compatibility
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Slimming Down Patched Installations
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Reference
Reference Installing the Patching Tool Configuring the Patching Tool Getting Patch Information Uninstalling Patches Accessing DXP Patche Code
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Accessing DXP Patch Code
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...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Configuring the Patching Tool
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
JVM Configuration
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Configuring Single Sign-On
Configuring Single Sign-On Liferay Portal/DXP supports many ways of authenticating, from token-based solutions to standards such as OpenID Connect and SAML. With all the available options, you...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
SAML Authentication Process Overview
SAML Authentication Process Overview Both the IdP and the SP can initiate the Single Sign On process, and the SSO flow is different depending on each one. Regardless of how it's initiated, SSO is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Liferay Authentication With Auth0 Using OpenId Connect
Configuring Liferay Authentication With Auth0 Using OpenId Connect This tutorial guides you through integrating Auth0, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment using OpenID...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Liferay Authentication With Okta Using OpenId Connect
Configuring Liferay Authentication With Okta Using OpenId Connect This tutorial guides you through the basic steps needed to integrate Okta, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your environment...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Liferay Authentication With PingOne Using SAML
Configuring Liferay Authentication With PingOne Using SAML This tutorial guides you through the basic steps needed to integrate PingOne, your Identity Provider (IdP), with your Liferay environment...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Token-based Single Sign On Authentication
Token-based Single Sign On Authentication Token-based SSO authentication was introduced in Liferay Portal 7.0 to standardize support for Shibboleth, SiteMinder, Oracle OAM, and any SSO product that...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using OpenAM
Using OpenAM Deprecated in Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 OpenAM 13 is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129. OpenAM 12 and below were deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.2. Versions of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using OpenID Connect
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Developer Guide
Developer Guide
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Captcha API Basics
Captcha API Basics Liferay provides a headless API to retrieve and submit captchas using the SimpleCAPTCHA engine. Using the /captcha endpoint from the API Explorer, you can add captchas in your...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
SCIM Group API Basics
SCIM Group API Basics Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Liferay provides a headless API to perform CRUD operations on SCIM groups to keep their information in sync with your company's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
SCIM User API Basics
SCIM User API Basics Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Liferay provides a headless API to perform CRUD operations on SCIM users to keep their identity information in sync with your company's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Fast IDentity Online 2
Fast IDentity Online 2 Available: Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ The Fast IDentity Online 2 or FIDO2 standard allows for the use of biometrics (i.e., fingerprint readers), mobile devices, or other...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Multi-Factor Authentication
Multi-Factor Authentication Liferay DXP 7.3+ Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) provides better security by requiring users to prove their identity in multiple ways, or factors. The basic user...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Multi-Factor Authentication Checkers
Multi-Factor Authentication Checkers Liferay DXP 7.4 ships with two additional factor checkers for Multi-Factor Authentication. Both of them are disabled by default, because they're only useful in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using Multi-Factor Authentication
Using Multi-Factor Authentication To enhance your installation's security, you should disable less secure, one-factor forms of authentication, such as Basic Auth, Digest Auth, and WebDAV. You can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Content Security Policy Headers
Configuring Content Security Policy Headers [Beta Feature](../../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Modern browsers use Content Security Policy HTTP...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Setting Service Access Policies
Setting Service Access Policies Service Access Policies define what services or service methods can be invoked remotely. You can apply many of them at once to produce a combined effect. They are...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Securing Web Services
Securing Web Services Liferay DXP provides four security layers for web services: IP permission layer: The IP address from which a web service invocation request originates must be white-listed in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM)
System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ System for Cross-domain Identity Management or SCIM, is an open standard that automates user provisioning. In...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
AntiSamy
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

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