Capability

Sites

Liferay sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. Each site includes applications for creating content, designing pages, and more. With these features, you can bring your custom solutions to life, whether intranets, public sites, customer portals, or e-commerce storefronts. In fact, you can leverage Liferay's multi-site capabilities to create multiple such sites in the same Liferay instance.

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Deployment Approach
Capability
Installing Liferay DXP in Alibaba Cloud
Installing Liferay DXP in Alibaba Cloud Coming Soon!
Published Date: May 16, 2025 4:35 PM
Installing Liferay DXP in Microsoft Azure
Installing Liferay DXP in Microsoft Azure
Published Date: May 16, 2025 4:35 PM
Installing Liferay DXP in Google Cloud Platform
Installing Liferay DXP in Google Cloud Platform Coming Soon!
Published Date: May 16, 2025 4:35 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
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
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...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Portal Developer Properties
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Setting Up Liferay
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) ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Activating Liferay DXP
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Clustering for High Availability
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Cluster Link
Configuring Cluster Link Enabling Cluster Link activates distributed caching. The cache is distributed across multiple Liferay DXP nodes running concurrently. Cluster Link uses Ehcache replication....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes
Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes At minimum, nodes in a DXP cluster must be configured to share the same database (or database cluster) in order to function. Optimizations discussed here...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Unicast over TCP
Configuring Unicast over TCP If your network configuration or the geographical distance between cluster nodes prevents you from using UDP Multicast clustering, you can configure TCP Unicast. You...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster
Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster A fast, easy way to learn DXP clustering is to set up a two node DXP cluster environment on one machine using Docker containers. This example creates two DXP...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Mail
Configuring Mail Liferay DXP/Portal can be configured to use a mail server to send email notifications for a variety of purposes: User registration and password management, Site membership...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Session Replication with Tomcat
Session Replication with Tomcat Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA92+ To ensure user session data is synchronized across all instances in the cluster, Liferay supports session replication. If one...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:47 AM
Alternative Email Configuration Methods
Alternative Email Configuration Methods There are several methods of configuring Liferay DXP to connect to a mail server. The simplest way to get started is to configure mail using through the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Default Email Senders
Configuring Default Email Senders By default, emails sent by Liferay DXP use the name and email address as the default admin user. This behavior can be configured for each of the different email...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Initial Instance Localization
Initial Instance Localization Liferay DXP supports localization by language, time zone, and more. The English (US) language translation and GMT time zone are the defaults, but DXP has over 40...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Tuning Your JVM
Tuning Your JVM Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning primarily focuses on adjusting Java heap and non-heap settings and configuring garbage collection. Finding settings that perform well for you...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth
Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth Liferay DXP 7.4 U79+/Liferay Portal 7.4 GA79+ Connect your Microsoft email service to Liferay with the use of OAuth 2.0 authorization. Note, Microsoft...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Tuning Liferay
Tuning Liferay There are several ways to tune Liferay's performance. This involves configuring the Java Virtual Machine and frameworks that support the Liferay application, monitoring performance...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using a CDN
Using a CDN A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a distributed infrastructure for caching static, file-based content. When visitors hit your site, your static content is loaded from the server...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Post-Upgrade Considerations
Post-Upgrade Considerations After upgrading the database, you should configure Liferay for production again and check up on feature changes that might affect your Liferay instance. Re-enable...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Upgrading Liferay
Upgrading Liferay Liferay is continuously being enhanced with new features as new versions are released. To access these features in your current project, you must upgrade your Liferay instance to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Data Removal
Data Removal Available 7.4+ Use the Data Removal tool to erase unnecessary application data, such as expired journal articles and publication previews. To remove data, Open the Global Menu...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Data Cleanup
Data Cleanup Available 7.3+ When you're done using an obsolete Liferay app or capability, you can remove its data. You can use the Control Panel or a configuration file to do data cleanup. Here's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Database Pruning for Faster Upgrades
Database Pruning for Faster Upgrades The more data you have the longer your data upgrade takes. Unneeded site data is a common occurrence. Pruning the database of unneeded data improves upgrade...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Preparing for an Upgrade
Preparing for an Upgrade Preparation and planning may be of little consequence for small, casual installations but is mandatory for large enterprise-level installations. Create a Back Up Always...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Database Tuning for Upgrades
Database Tuning for Upgrades Performing an upgrade impacts the database differently from daily running in production. Because of this, you should tune your database for the upgrade process before...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Example: Removing Intermediate Journal Article Versions
Example: Removing Intermediate Journal Article Versions These instructions and code samples demonstrate removing intermediate Journal Article versions. In the script console, you can remove...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Troubleshooting Upgrades
Troubleshooting Upgrades When you upgrade a DXP instance for a production release, the data upgrades must be done correctly and swiftly. Here are some ways to help assure success: Create a test...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Common Upgrade Issues
Common Upgrade Issues Skipping an upgrade step or creating custom references to the Liferay database, can cause upgrade issues. The following questions and answers address some common situations. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Upgrade Report
Upgrade Report Available 7.4+ When you perform upgrades, it is important to know the changes made and any issues that occurred. The upgrade status returns combined results for core upgrades,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Upgrading Modules Using Gogo Shell
Upgrading Modules Using Gogo Shell To troubleshoot upgrade issues with particular modules, it may be necessary to test and perform upgrades on a per-module basis, instead of en-masse. Liferay has...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM