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How to check Java's TZData (Timezone Data) version
Issue In countries where Daylight Savings Time (Summer Time) is defined each year the timezone data (TZData) can be outdated. This procedure can help you fetch the version of the TZData currently in use...
Documents and Media: Disable permission for users to add new folder
Issue A user assigned a 'Site Role' is able to create a new folder in Documents and Media How can I prevent a user creating new folders? Environment DXP 7.1    DXP 7.2    DXP 7.3    Resolution By default, Site...
How to set up a clean bundle in your local environment
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Where can I get the database query logs for my Liferay PaaS project?
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Where can I get database query logs for my Liferay PaaS...
JavaScript Loader OSGI config settings don't appear to be applied following an upgrade to 7.2+
Issue When upgrading to DXP 7.3, we moved our previously modified OSGi .config files to the new bundle, but the settings from the JavaScript Loader .config file do not appear to be taking effect, as the default...
Changes to Tomcat classloading order as of Tomcat 8+
Issue In Tomcat 7 and earlier versions, class loading for EXT JAR files were done in alphabetical order. However, with Tomcat 8 and later, class loading has been changed to be decided by the underlying file system....
How do I implement a JNDI database connection on Liferay PaaS
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Portal Administrators may require a connection to the...
Delay when fetching data from headless-admin-user/v1.0/user-accounts for the first time after server restart
Issue When running a REST API call as below:...
Is it possible to schedule LDAP imports for a specific time of day in Liferay DXP?
Issue In Liferay Portal 6.2, it was possible to create a cron trigger in the liferay-portlet.xml file to accomplish LDAP imports for a specific time of day without creating a customization. These types of scheduled...
Is It Possible To Change Deployed War Location?
Issue The default location of the deployed war is ${liferay.home}/osgi/war folder. Is it possible to change the location?   Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+   Resolution You can use the following property to change the...
Persisting a Secret Environment Variable upon deleting and redeploying a service
Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue For business reasons, we have a custom service that we...
Enable BundleStartStopLogger debug log traces
Issue How to enable BundleStartStopLogger debug log traces to see module lifecycle events during startup. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Stop the server. If it doesn't exist create a folder named log4j...
Portlet Management in a clustered Liferay DXP using WebLogic
Issue How can I manage portlets in a clustered Liferay DXP environment using WebLogic?    Environment Liferay DXP 7.x WebLogic   Resolution Since Liferay DXP 7.x, you will have no access to any modules deployed within the...
How to manually remove / delete a portlet
Issue How can I completely delete a portlet so that I can redeploy an older version? When I uninstall a portlet from the App Manager, it's only Blacklisted and not uninstalled. How do I remove a custom module in...
The default Liferay DXP site's name cannot be localized/translated
Issue I am using the default Liferay DXP site, renamed it, but I do not see the language button or an option to add the site name in different languages. Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.0+ Resolution The default site's...
How to update our Tomcat server?
Issue We've found a security issue in our current Tomcat server version The issue has been fixed in the latest version of Tomcat Does Liferay provide a fix for the issue? If not, how can we upgrade our...
Disable Footer Section
Issue How to hide the footer section("Powered by Liferay" section)? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution The below steps can be followed to disable the footer section: 1) Go to Site Builder > Pages. 2) Click on the...
Adjusting Log Levels to persist after portal restart
Issue Log levels that have been adjusted through the Server Administration are reset after a server restart. I'd like the log levels adjustments to persist after restarts. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution Adjust log...
[CKEditor] Paragraph tag is appended to content in blogs by default
Issue We are using CKEditor instead of the regular editor. When putting some content into the HTML field while creating blogs <p> and </p> tags are appended by default. We would like to remove these tags or change them...
Groovy Script for deleting users from the database
Directly modifying the database is not advised because we are unable to provide assistance regarding the damage it might do. The suggested approach in these cases is a groovy script that uses Liferay's API....
Remove portlets programmatically with the removePortletId method
Issue I would like to remove portlets from pages programmatically (e.g. with a script or a background job) with the use of the removePortletId method, but without permission checking.  Environment Liferay DXP...
Is it possible to change how much memory Gradle uses during a Liferay PaaS build in Jenkins?
Issue Since our Jenkins builds are using Gradle Daemons, we would like to increase the memory available to control how much memory Gradle uses, so that it is increased from this default: org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx512m...
Avoid user login after every session timeout
Issue On every session expire it is asking for user login again Environment Liferay 7.0 Resolution Login after each session timeout is the default functionality of the Liferay portal. In order to avoid login after...
Is there any way to retrieve the User account's creator
Issue Is there any way or SQL statement to retrieve the User account's creator? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution There have two ways to retrieve the User account's creator. The user account's creator can be...
Configuring multiple virtual hosts so that both www and non-www can be used
Issue To configure multiple virtual hosts on one site(for example, both www.aaa.com and aaa.com). The Virtual Host can not be configured by using both of the different hosts. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution...
Deploying Liferay 6.2 SP 15 on Jboss EAP 6.2
Issue This article will outline a basic walkthrough on how-to deploy Liferay 6.2 SP 15 on Jboss EAP 6.2 specific to EAP version.          Environment Liferay 6.2 JBoss EAP 6.2  Resolution Prerequisite Download...
I cannot configure the "Look and Feel" of widgets on the Content Page
Issue A new Content Page is created and a widget is added to it. There is no kebab menu on it (3 dots) and there is no Look and Feel Configuration button either. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution The menu is no...
The work folder is no longer appearing since DXP 7.2 SP1
Issue After updating to SP1 (fix pack dxp-2) on DXP 7.2 the $[Liferay-home]/work folder is no longer there or no longer generates new content Environment DXP 7.2 SP1 or above. Resolution The $[Liferay-home]/work...
What configuration needs to be done to bypass the proxy in Liferay?
Issue What are the proxy configurations to be done at Liferay to bypass the proxy available in the network? Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 Resolution The configurations...
Read the data of portlet.properties from custom portlet
Issue How to read the data from the portlet.properties from the custom portlet? Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution Please Note: The following procedures involve customizations that are beyond the scope of Liferay...
How to Change the Session Timeout Value
Issue How do I modify Liferay's default session-timeout of any logged-in user? Environment DXP 7.2 DXP 7.3 DXP 7.4 Resolution This value is set on the [App_Server_HOME]/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml file....
How to automatically log thread dumps when the portal is too slow in Liferay?
Issue How to automatically generate thread dumps when the portal is slow? Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Liferay DXP 7.0,7.1,7.2,7.3, and  7.4 Resolution Liferay has provided the below two properties which...
How to Configure Multiple Site Names with Different HostNames
Issue How Multiple Sites can be configured with Different HostNames in the portal? The below example illustrates the requirement. If there are two sites Site A and Site B then, 1) Site A should be mapped with...
CacheFilter Expiration time
Issue The cache filter caches processed web content.  To change the cache expiration time to live ehcache.xml needs to be modified. So where can we set the expiration time. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Resolution The...
Login issue when configuring the SSL on JBoss EAP 7.0
Issue Login issue when configuring the SSL on JBoss EAP 7.0 Environment Portal: Liferay DXP 7.0 Application Server: JBoss EAP 7.0 Operating System: Ubuntu 19.04 Resolution Please Note: The following procedures and...
How to delete page scope
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Why is the server now timing out users after 15 minutes instead of 30?
Issue After updating past de-68 for Liferay DXP 7.0 or past dxp-5 for Liferay DXP 7.1 users are now timing out after 15 minutes. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 using the Tomcat application server Liferay DXP...
Upgrading from Liferay DXP 7.1 to 7.2
This paper is a high-level overview of the effort involved in moving from Liferay DXP 7.1 to 7.2. It contains an upgrade checklist, the upgrade steps, and what to do after a successful...
Logging Mechanism for Liferay Database Pool
Issue 1. How to increase the logging around connection pool which can help to understand the activities within the connection pool? 2. What other container-managed database connection pool can be used instead of c3p0?...
How to programmatically undeploy a module in DXP 7.1?
Issue I want to undeploy a module from my code, usig API I tried using DeployManagerUtil.undeploy(context), but nothing happens Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution If you are trying to undeploy a module by its context...