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Using Multi-Factor Authentication Subscription To enhance your installation's security, you should disable less secure, one-factor forms of authentication, such as Basic Auth, Digest Auth, and...

Securing Web Services

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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...

Setting Up CORS

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Setting Up CORS CORS stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. An Origin is a web server at a different domain, and a Resource is some asset stored on the server, like an image, PDF, or HTML file....

Using Authentication Verifiers

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Using Authentication Verifiers Authentication Verifiers authenticate remote invocations of Liferay Portal's API in a centralized and extensible way. They have two main responsibilities: Verify...

Setting Up Liferay

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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) ...

Activating Liferay DXP

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Activating Liferay DXP Starting with the 2026.Q1 release, all Liferay DXP installations—including trial and free-tier environments—require an XML (.xml) activation key to enable core features and...

Clustering for High Availability

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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...

Configuring Cluster Link

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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....

Configuring Unicast over TCP

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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...

Configuring Mail

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Configuring Mail Liferay can be configured to use a mail server to send email notifications for a variety of purposes: user registration, password management, site membership notifications, content...

Database Configuration for Cluster Nodes

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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...

Example: Creating a Simple DXP Cluster

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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...

Configuring Microsoft Office 365 with OAuth

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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...

Upgrading Liferay

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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...

Configuring Default Email Senders

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Configuring Default Email Senders By default, emails sent by Liferay DXP use the name and email address of the default admin user. This behavior can be configured for each of the different email...

Initial Instance Localization

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Initial Instance Localization Liferay DXP supports localization by language, time zone, and more. The English (US) language translation and UTC time zone are the defaults, but DXP has over 40...

Tuning Liferay

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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...

Tuning Your JVM

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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...

Serving Static Resources via a CDN

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Serving Static Resources via a CDN This article explains how to configure Liferay to rewrite URLs for static resources (images, CSS, JS) so they are served from a separate CDN domain. A Content...

Preparing for an Upgrade

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Preparing for an Upgrade Preparation and planning may be of little consequence for small, casual installations but is mandatory for large enterprise-level installations. There are specific...

Post-Upgrade Considerations

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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...

Troubleshooting Upgrades

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Troubleshooting Upgrades Liferay has many out-of-the-box tools and features to identify and solve issues that may arise when performing an upgrade. To troubleshoot, you can upgrade modules...

Upgrading the Database

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Upgrading the Database Liferay's tools and instructions facilitate upgrading DXP and Portal environments safely and quickly. Non-clustered environments that have small data sets, can be upgraded...

Development

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Development Liferay's development platform makes developers faster and more efficient by providing a baseline set of features to build upon. Rather than start from scratch, you can start instead...

Building Applications

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Building Applications For maximum compatibility with all of Liferay's deployment options, you can combine Liferay's Objects, Client Extensions, and other features and tools to build real-world...

Updating Customizations

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Updating Customizations Plugins (e.g., themes, apps, and customizations) you've developed must be adapted to the new Liferay version. This can be as simple as updating dependencies or updating code...

Building a Custom Ticketing System

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Building a Custom Ticketing System Liferay makes it easy for you to build digital solutions. For example, you can create a custom ticketing application with the styling and features needed for your...

Defining a Custom Data Schema

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Defining a Custom Data Schema The ticketing application requires custom data fields and selections. You use Liferay objects and picklists to define a custom data schema. Creating Custom Picklists...

Deploying a Custom Application

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Deploying a Custom Application You can use a custom element client extension to render a JavaScript application as a widget on a Liferay site page. The application is served by Liferay and...

Implementing a Documentation Referral System

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Implementing a Documentation Referral System The ticketing system can be further enhanced with a documentation referral system. The system searches automatically for relevant documentation based on...

Ticket Management with Cron Jobs

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Ticket Management with Cron Jobs Use Cron jobs to automate managing tickets. For example, have a job to run at a regular schedule to delete any tickets that have a resolution type of duplicate or...

Applying a Custom Theme

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Applying a Custom Theme You can use different front-end client extensions to customize the look and feel of your site. Specifically, theme CSS type client extension can be used as an alternative to...

Building a Time Off Requester

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Building a Time Off Requester Liferay 7.4+ With Liferay Objects, you can build entire applications without writing code or deploying modules. Here, create a Time Off Request application using...

Asset Framework

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Asset Framework The asset framework is behind many of Liferay's most powerful features. It provides tools for displaying and interacting with any type of content and data. For example, if you build...

Enabling Assets

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Enabling Assets Many of Liferay's applications (e.g. Blogs, Documents and Media, Message Boards, etc.) are asset-enabled out of the box. You can publish assets with the Asset Publisher widget or...

Cache

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Cache

Expando

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Expando Accessing Custom Fields with Expando

Data Frameworks

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Data Frameworks

Data Scopes

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Data Scopes

Defining Entities

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Defining Entities Entities are the heart and soul of a service. They represent the map between the model objects in Java and your database fields and tables. Service Builder automatically maps your...

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