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Getting Started
Getting Started Liferay DXP is a powerful, open source, enterprise-ready platform for building and deploying web applications. However, all of that power and functionality can make it difficult to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Managing Web Content Structures
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Web Content Templates
Web Content Templates With Web Content Templates, you can define how content appears, ensuring that your web content aligns with your brand and functional requirements. Learn how to create...
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Embedding Widgets in Web Content Templates
Embedding Widgets in Web Content Templates You can embed core or custom widgets, instanceable or not, in web content templates. Below is an example of embedding a web content widget in FreeMarker:
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Mapping Web Content Templates to Fragments
Mapping Web Content Templates to Fragments By default, you can map web content structure fields holding a single value (such as date, numeric, image, number, or text) to fragments. For multi-value...
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Using Taglibs in Web Content Templates
Using Taglibs in Web Content Templates Liferay's taglibs are accessible when developing templates in FreeMarker. There is no need to instantiate these taglibs within your FreeMarker template;...
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Creating Your First Site
Creating Your First Site Sites are collections of pages that contain and display content. This article walks through creating a new Site based on an existing out-of-the-box template. Creating a...
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What's New in Liferay DXP 7.3
What's New in Liferay DXP 7.3 The latest release of Liferay DXP includes many significant new features and improvements. These features will enhance how you build your site, analyze your site's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
What's New in Liferay DXP 7.4
What's New in Liferay DXP 7.4 Liferay DXP 7.4 comes with enhanced functionality and exciting improvements that make it even easier for both technical and non-technical users to deliver and optimize...
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Headless Delivery
Headless Delivery
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API Builder
API Builder Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal 7.4 GA102+ [Beta Feature](../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) This feature is currently behind a beta feature...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Building a Sample API Application
Building a Sample API Application Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal 7.4 GA102+ [Beta Feature](../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) The API Builder is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Changing Your Site's Appearance
Changing Your Site's Appearance Liferay has many ways to customize your site's appearance. Your site's favicon and theme are two of the first elements you may want to change. Themes set a default...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Introduction to the Admin Account
Introduction to the Admin Account The Admin User account is created by default in any new installation of Liferay DXP and has full permissions to modify every facet of a Liferay DXP instance. The...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Navigating DXP
Navigating DXP Liferay DXP's out-of-the-box navigation is organized into three major areas: Site Menu, Personal Menu, and Global Menu. Site Menu The DXP Site Menu on the left side of the screen...
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Starting with a Docker Image
Starting with a Docker Image The latest versions of Liferay are available as Docker images on Docker Hub. They're in two categories: Liferay/Portal Liferay/DXP Follow the steps below to...
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APIs with REST Builder
APIs with REST Builder REST Builder is a code generation tool that makes it easy for you to take your local APIs and make them available on the web. It uses the OpenAPI Specification to generate...
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Consuming APIs
Consuming APIs APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, serve as the bridge between different software applications, allowing them to communicate and exchange data. By consuming external APIs,...
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Producing and Implementing APIs with REST Builder
Producing and Implementing APIs with REST Builder With REST Builder, you can define the API you want to build, and REST Builder provides the framework and endpoints for you. Deploy an Example REST...
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Consuming GraphQL APIs
Consuming GraphQL APIs Liferay DXP contains GraphQL APIs for most of its applications. Here's how to consume them in three steps: Identify the API you wish to consume. Identify the site...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Using External Reference Codes
Using External Reference Codes Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ Many of Liferay's headless API endpoints support an external reference code (ERC). The ERC field is useful in wide range of scenarios. For...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Using OAuth 2.0
Using OAuth 2.0 OAuth 2.0 is an industry-standard authorization protocol. Users can seamlessly share select credentials from your Liferay-based website with various clients. OAuth 2.0 works by...
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Consuming REST Services
Consuming REST Services Liferay DXP contains REST services for most of its applications. These services are fully OpenAPI compliant. Here, learn how to consume them. This takes only three steps: ...
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Data Migration Center
Data Migration Center Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal 7.4 GA102+ [Beta Feature](../../system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Currently, this feature is behind...
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Making Unauthenticated Requests
Making Unauthenticated Requests By default, Liferay DXP restricts API access for the sake of security, requiring authentication to get a valid response. However, in certain cases it may make sense...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Applying a Hotfix
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...
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Backing Up
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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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. ...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Uninstalling Patches
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)...
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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. ...
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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...
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Authenticating with CAS (Central Authentication Service)
Authenticating with CAS (Central Authentication Service) CAS was deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.2 and removed as of Liferay DXP 7.4. Please use [SAML](./authenticating-with-saml.md) instead. CAS...
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Configuring SAML at the System Level
Configuring SAML at the System Level Before allowing any portal instances to enable SAML authentication, you should configure it at the system level so those instances have a foundation from which...
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Importing User Groups' Memberships from an External IdP through SAML
Importing User Groups' Memberships from an External IdP through SAML This feature was released behind a dev feature flag. It was made Generally Available (GA) in Liferay DXP 2024.Q2/GA120. You...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
JVM Configuration
JVM Configuration As of Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal 7.4 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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
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...
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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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Authentication Basics
Authentication Basics By default, Liferay DXP uses the Sign In widget to authenticate users. The Sign In widget appears on the default home page at http[s]://[server-name:port]/web/guest/home. If...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 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
Authenticating with Kerberos
Authenticating with Kerberos You can use Kerberos to authenticate Microsoft Windows™ accounts with Liferay DXP. This is done by using a combination of Liferay DXP's LDAP support and a web server...
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Authenticating with SAML
Authenticating with SAML The SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) adapter provides Single Sign On (SSO) and Single Log Off (SLO) in your deployment. SAML works by using Identity Providers...
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Configuring SAML at the Instance Level
Configuring SAML at the Instance Level Each portal instance can be a SAML provider, either an Identity Provider (IdP) or a Service Provider (SP). Whichever role your DXP instance fills, you can...
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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...
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SAML Settings
SAML Settings Many of the same fields appear in both the Service Provider and the Identity Provider configurations. Here's a reference. Name: Name the SP or IdP. This is just a descriptive name;...
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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...
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SAML Admin
SAML Admin The SAML Admin panel is the best place to configure your SAML instance. Use it instead of Instance Settings to streamline your SAML administration experience. You can configure an...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
Using OpenAM
Using OpenAM Deprecated in Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/GA129 OpenAM 13 is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/GA129. OpenAM 12 and below were deprecated as of Liferay DXP 7.2. Versions of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM

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