Capability

DXP Self-Hosted Installation, Maintenance, and Administration

In addition to SaaS and PaaS deployment approaches for Liferay DXP, you can also opt to self-host Liferay DXP. Self-hosting gives you flexibility to deploy Liferay DXP on-premises or to a cloud computing provider of your choice, giving you complete control over deployment, infrastructure, and maintenance.

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Deployment Approach
Capability
Installation and Upgrades
Official Documentation
Installation and Upgrades Liferay DXP 7.3 and Below Liferay Commerce is a digital commerce platform built on Liferay DXP. See the prerequisites and available options for installing, deploying, and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
3.0 Breaking Changes
Official Documentation
3.0 Breaking Changes This is a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay Commerce developers or Users in Commerce 3.0. We try our...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
4.0 Breaking Changes
Official Documentation
4.0 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay Commerce developers or users in Commerce...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Activating Liferay Commerce Enterprise
Official Documentation
Activating Liferay Commerce Enterprise Starting with Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3, Commerce ships with all Liferay bundles and Docker containers and doesn't require a separate installation. However, the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
3.0 Release Notes
Official Documentation
3.0 Release Notes Release Highlights Compatibility with Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay Commerce 3.0 is compatible with the latest version of Liferay DXP. Leverage the new experience management, content...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Installing Commerce 2.1 and Below
Official Documentation
Installing Commerce 2.1 and Below Previous releases of Liferay Commerce required additional installation steps that are no longer necessary on Commerce 3.x and above. Prerequisites Before...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Deploying Liferay Commerce to an Existing Liferay Installation
Official Documentation
Deploying Liferay Commerce to an Existing Liferay Installation This article documents how to deploy Liferay Commerce to an existing Liferay DXP instance. Because Liferay Commerce is built on...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Using the Liferay Commerce Docker Image
Official Documentation
Using the Liferay Commerce Docker Image The latest version Liferay Commerce is available as a docker image. Follow these steps to download the latest Docker image release of Liferay Commerce and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Using the Liferay Commerce Tomcat Bundle
Official Documentation
Using the Liferay Commerce Tomcat Bundle The Liferay Commerce bundle is available for download from the Liferay Commerce Community Downloads page. The bundle contains the latest version of Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Maintenance Versions
Official Documentation
Maintenance Versions Fix Packs are released on a periodic basis and include bug and security fixes. If you are installing a fix pack to an installation that has custom code deployed, we recommend...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Upgrading Liferay Commerce
Official Documentation
Upgrading Liferay Commerce To enhance the quality of your experience with Liferay Commerce, Liferay provides periodic product upgrades with bug fixes and new features. Users should consider...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Providing Files to the Container
Official Documentation
Providing Files to the Container The Liferay container uses the files you provide to execute the following use cases: Configure Liferay with .properties Files and .config files Configure Tomcat...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Running Scripts in Containers
Official Documentation
Running Scripts in Containers If there's more that you want to do in the Liferay container beyond setting up Tomcat and Liferay files, deploying arifacts, and applying patches, you can use scripts....
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Using Liferay Docker Images
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Docker Images Docker Hub hosts Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal Docker images, bundled with Tomcat on Linux. The Liferay Docker Hub pages provide image details and tags for the...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Building Liferay Docker Images
Official Documentation
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,...
Published Date: May 22, 2025 4:39 PM
Configuring Containers
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Container Lifecycle and API
Official Documentation
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:...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Installing Apps and Other Artifacts to Containers
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Docker
Official Documentation
Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Docker The Liferay Docker container has tools for maintenance and troubleshooting out-of-the-box. You can set various environment variables to modify settings...
Published Date: Aug 16, 2024 3:43 PM
Docker Image Versions
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM