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This article documents a change in where to define serviceLocator properties in Liferay platforms; both in Portal and Digital Experience Platform (DXP). Developers familiar with this functionality in Portal 6.2 can enable or disable this property to allow specific calls in Freemarker or...

Liferay comes equipped out-of-the-box with a variety of portlets that users may add to their page. For various reasons, however, an administrator may wish to remove some of these portlets from the pool of available portlets. Fortunately, this can be achieved either in the control panel...

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. When upgrading to the latest Liferay Portal, there are many things to take into account. This guide is designed to...

This article documents a known issue in which structures with duplicate element names fail Dynamic Data Mapping (DDM) verification when upgrading from Liferay Portal 6.1 to Liferay Portal 6.2 or Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.0 or 7.1. For customers who are upgrading their Liferay...

When upgrading to the latest version of Liferay Portal, there are many things to take into account. This guide is designed to assist in the upgrading process. Please read and ensure your environment is ready prior to performing the upgrade. Resolution These instructions should be used if...

This article serves as a reference for how to configure Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) to use Amazon Web Services S3. DXP users can leverage Amazon S3 in two key areas; to serve as a file store repository, and to manage clustering. Regardless of which usage, there are three...

This article serves as a reference guide for how to set system wide properties through the system-ext.properties file. Similar to the relationship between the portal.properties and portal-ext.properties files, administrators can affect system wide changes in the system.properties by...

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. This article outlines steps on how to setup a DB2 connection with Liferay Portal. This article use properties set...

This article provides a checklist when you move your existing data from an old Liferay environment to a new one. Resolution For database, please backup the database in old environment and import it to the new environment. For documents, they are stored...

This article documents how to use the data migration tool in the Server Administration section of Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.1. The Data Migration Tool allows administrators to migrate data quickly between Documents and Media repository to another, such as moving from...

When upgrading to the latest Liferay Portal, there are many things to take into account. This guide is designed to assist in the upgrading process. Please read and ensure your environment is ready prior to performing the upgrade. Resolution These are listed in order of what should be...

Liferay Portal is designed to handle as many languages as you want to support. This is done by pulling out all language specific text and storing it in the language.properties files. This way, when a page loads, Liferay Portal will detect the language, pull up the corresponding language...

For developers, Liferay has created a set of documentation (Javadocs) that provide API and code detail for working with Liferay DXP's core software. To access the Javadocs, follow either one of the following instructions. For the zip file, navigate to the Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix...

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. There are multiple application servers that allow users to deploy plugins via an administration console of some...

Preserving anonymity of users when providing data to Liferay may be a concern for certain use-cases. The following guidelines should assist in determining which data should be anonymized and finding where 'sensitive' data can be located on Liferay's database. Resolution Create a SQL...

This article documents how to change the time zone in your Liferay DXP 7.0 environment. Given that users are working with the Liferay platform from all over the world, it is important to have the ability to change the time zone. You can do this at two different levels; the individual...

This article is a guide to help users set up, install and cluster Liferay DXP 7.0 or 7.1 on AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).  Resolution EC2 Instance Set Up There are 2 kinds of EC2 instances: (1) EC2-classic and (2) EC2-VPC. Please refer to Amazon's documentation for more detailed...

This article documents how the Liferay platform will automatically generate URLs appended with /web/, which can also be changed to a friendly URL. This may be an issue for those who do not want to append generated endings to URLs. For instance: http://liferay.com/web/page.html becomes...

This article documents how to deploy Liferay Portal 6.2 or Liferay DXP (7.0 or 7.1) on WebSphere Application Server with Network Deployment (commonly abbreviated ND). The Network Deployment Edition is a tool that offers an additional profile to manage multiple application server...

This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. Permission algorithm 5 was used as the default permissions algorithm starting with Liferay Portal 5.1. Beginning...