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Adding Users to Organizations
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Adding Users to Organizations With Liferay organizations, you can manage users and permissions to model your real-life organizational hierarchy, which can then be quickly implemented in...
Organization Sites
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Organization Sites Liferay Organizations enable distributed User management, providing a convenient way to organize and manage instance users and roles to reflect your organizational hierarchy....
Assigning Roles to User Segments
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Assigning Roles to User Segments Liferay DXP 7.2 SP2+, Liferay CE 7.3.1 GA2+ User segments are dynamically assigned user collections. If a segment can be well-defined with the available criteria,...
Configuring a Password Policy
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Configuring a Password Policy Password policies enhance the security of your installation. You can use the default policy that ships with Liferay (modified or as is), or you can create your own...
Defining Role Permissions
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Defining Role Permissions Roles collect permissions, so when users are given a role, they inherit all its permissions. If you create a role with permission to access something in the Control...
Adding a New Organization Type
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Adding a New Organization Type By default, Liferay DXP only includes the Organization type. You can configure the existing type or add additional types in System Settings → Users → Organization...
Organization Roles
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Organization Roles Liferay Organizations provide a convenient way to implement distributed User management. With them, you can use Organization-scoped Roles to assign standard permissions to all...
Roles and Permissions
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Roles and Permissions To get things done in Liferay DXP, users must have the proper permissions. Roles join users with permissions. Most administrative work for roles and permissions is done in...
Assigning Users to Roles
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Assigning Users to Roles The location of a role's assignment UI corresponds with the Role's scope. Regular Roles Globally scoped regular roles are available for configuration in the DXP Control...
Creating and Managing Roles
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Creating and Managing Roles Once you understand roles and permissions, you can create the roles and empower your users to work within your Liferay DXP solution. Create and manage roles in Control...
Default Roles Reference
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Default Roles Reference All roles available in a Liferay DXP installation can be viewed in the Roles administrative application, organized by scope. Navigate there using Control Panel → Users →...
Standard Permissions
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Standard Permissions Liferay defines several standard permissions across various applications and resources, such as view, edit, update, and more. Managing permissions Permissions are best managed...
Service Accounts
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Service Accounts A service account is a common abstraction in systems used to make authenticated API requests on behalf of the system. Every virtual instance in Liferay comes with one service...
Creating and Managing User Groups
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Creating and Managing User Groups A user group is a list of users created for a specific purpose. User groups can be created across the hierarchical boundaries of organizations. For example, an...
User Groups
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User Groups Creating and Managing User Groups Managing Site Membership and Permissions with User Groups User Group Sites
Adding and Managing Users
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Adding and Managing Users Core user management activities include adding, editing, and deleting users. These activities are typically restricted to Administrative users. Adding Users Open the...
User Group Sites
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User Group Sites With user group sites, you can create pages that are added automatically to each member’s personal site. These pages are organized into two page sets, My Profile (public) and My...
Users
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Users Every person who accesses a Liferay site is considered a user. Unauthenticated users are considered Guest users. Liferay ships out-of-the-box with a default admin user who has complete...
Managing Site Membership and Permissions with User Groups
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Managing Site Membership and Permissions with User Groups You can use user groups to manage site membership, roles, and permissions. Managing Site Membership with User Groups One of the primary...
Updating User Profile Pictures
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Updating User Profile Pictures Users have profile pictures. Administrative Users can upload images in the Edit User form, and Users can update their own account information, including profile...
Cloud Native Experience
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Cloud Native Experience Subscription This documentation reflects the Cloud Native Experience (CNE) as of Liferay DXP 2026.Q1. Use the latest version of the boilerplate repository before starting...
Cloud Native Experience: AWS Ready for Cloud 2025.Q4 and Earlier Versions
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Cloud Native Experience: AWS Ready for Cloud 2025.Q4 and Earlier Versions This guide covers the AWS Ready toolkit version used throughout 2025.Q4 and earlier. Starting in 2026.Q1, the toolkit has...
Cloud Native Experience: Cloud Provider Ready
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Cloud Native Experience: Cloud Provider Ready These provider-optimized toolkit offerings include opinionated Terraform blueprints that automate Day 0 tasks, such as networking, cluster...
AWS Managed Resources Reference
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AWS Managed Resources Reference By default, Liferay uses several managed services to run background operations when hosting in AWS. These resources facilitate the provisioning and continued use of...
Configuring Externally Managed Services
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Configuring Externally Managed Services Externally managed services are created, configured, and managed outside the Liferay Helm chart. Database Configuring an external database for Liferay in...
Configuring Liferay in AWS
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Configuring Liferay in AWS Since Liferay installations hosted in AWS use Helm, you must configure and customize Liferay using the Helm CLI. You can write as many .yaml files as you need. To update...
Making Liferay Public in AWS
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Making Liferay Public in AWS Now that you have Liferay installed, all that's left is to make it publicly available and then configure HTTPS for secure communication. Install the nginx Ingress...
Updating User Profile Pictures for Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions
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Updating User Profile Pictures for Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions Users have profile pictures. Administrative Users can upload images in the Edit User form, and Users can update their own account...
Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrades
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Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrades Liferay's flexibility makes it possible to host it in any way you choose: on any Kubernetes-based cloud platform via Helm charts and Terraform scripts, on...
Auto-Scaling in AWS
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Auto-Scaling in AWS Liferay's auto-scaling feature automatically creates and destroys replicas (nodes) in the Liferay cluster to optimize performance. You can choose the minimum and maximum number...
Configuring Internally Managed Services
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Configuring Internally Managed Services Internally managed services are configured and managed within the chart. These services are defined using the dependencies property: dependencies: : ...
Running Liferay DXP in Amazon Web Services
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Running Liferay DXP in Amazon Web Services There are three ways to host Liferay DXP in AWS: Installing Liferay DXP using the plain Helm chart. Installing Liferay DXP from AWS Marketplace. ...
CNE AWS Ready: Cleaning Up the Environment
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CNE AWS Ready: Cleaning Up the Environment If you no longer need your Cloud Native Experience (CNE) environment, remove the infrastructure and platform resources to avoid unnecessary cloud costs. ...
CNE AWS Ready: Incremental Backup and Restore
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CNE AWS Ready: Incremental Backup and Restore Liferay Cloud Native Experience (CNE) AWS Ready supports automated backups and restores using AWS Backup and Argo Workflows. Backups are disabled by...
CNE AWS Ready: Understanding EKS Auto Mode
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CNE AWS Ready: Understanding EKS Auto Mode Cloud Native Experience (CNE) uses Amazon EKS Auto Mode to manage Kubernetes node scaling automatically. EKS Auto Mode scales cluster nodes when...
CNE AWS Ready: Prerequisites
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CNE AWS Ready: Prerequisites Before running the bootstrap scripts to deploy the Liferay Cloud Native Experience (CNE) in your AWS environment, prepare your local machine, cloud accounts, and Git...
CNE AWS Ready: Running Liferay on AWS GovCloud
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CNE AWS Ready: Running Liferay on AWS GovCloud Use the Liferay Cloud Native Experience (CNE) installer to provision a Liferay environment on AWS GovCloud (US). The installer creates the required...
Cloud Native Experience: Kubernetes Ready
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Cloud Native Experience: Kubernetes Ready The Generic Blueprint of the Cloud Native Experience is for teams running Liferay DXP on any CNCF-certified Kubernetes cluster, whether on-premises or in a...
Running Liferay on any Kubernetes Cluster for Cloud 2025.Q4 and Earlier Versions
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Running Liferay on any Kubernetes Cluster for Cloud 2025.Q4 and Earlier Versions This guide covers the Kubernetes toolkit version used throughout 2025.Q4 and earlier. Starting in 2026.Q1, the...
Using GovCloud to run Liferay in AWS
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Using GovCloud to run Liferay in AWS Government entities can use GovCloud to provision Liferay in AWS. Subscribe to Liferay DXP Visit the AWS Marketplace. In Discover Products, find Liferay...
Using Marketplace Artifacts to Run Liferay in AWS
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Using Marketplace Artifacts to Run Liferay in AWS You can use AWS Marketplace artifacts to provision Liferay in AWS. Prerequisite Oras CLI (optional) Launch Liferay Set and export environment...
Viewing Metrics from Kubernetes
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Viewing Metrics from Kubernetes It is important to track resource usage in the Kubernetes cluster. To view your resource usage, you must use a collector and an exporter. Before you can view...
Viewing Metrics with Prometheus
Viewing Metrics with Prometheus The Liferay Helm chart is prepared to set up the Prometheus JMX Exporter project agent out-of-the-box. Set the JMX_AGENT_YAML environment variable to the following...
Viewing Metrics with Glowroot
Viewing Metrics with Glowroot This is how to use Glowroot in Liferay installations hosted in AWS. For information on how to set up Glowroot in other circumstances, see Using Glowroot with Liferay....
CNE AWS Ready: Using Elasticsearch
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CNE AWS Ready: Using Elasticsearch Cloud Native Experience environments provision OpenSearch by default for search and analytics workloads. You can configure the platform to use Elasticsearch...
Cloud Native Experience: AWS Ready - Getting Started
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Cloud Native Experience: AWS Ready - Getting Started The Cloud Native Experience (CNE) AWS Ready toolkit provides an opinionated framework for deploying Liferay DXP on Amazon Web Services using...
CNE: Helm Values Reference
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CNE: Helm Values Reference Helm is configured in YAML. Below are descriptions of the Liferay default Helm chart values. affinity: {} # Set Liferay DXP StatefulSet spec affinity...
CNE: AWS Ready - Bootstrap Configuration Reference
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CNE: AWS Ready - Bootstrap Configuration Reference The following configuration defines the cloud infrastructure, GitOps synchronization settings, and bootstrap execution options for Cloud Native...
CNE: AWS Ready - GitOps Infrastructure Configuration Reference
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CNE: AWS Ready - GitOps Infrastructure Configuration Reference Cloud Native Experience (CNE) uses GitOps to manage infrastructure configuration. These configuration files define environment...
Cloud Native Experience Glossary
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Cloud Native Experience Glossary This glossary provides a unified vocabulary for the Cloud Native Experience (CNE). Use these terms ensure consistent communication across development, platform...
Installing Liferay On A Local Server
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Installing Liferay On A Local Server Liferay runs on an application server. There are three ways to host Liferay on a local machine: Using a Docker container Using a Liferay Tomcat bundle On a...
Installing a Liferay-Tomcat Bundle
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Installing a Liferay-Tomcat Bundle The Tomcat Bundle includes the Apache Tomcat application server with Liferay DXP/Portal pre-deployed. It's the easiest, fastest way to install Liferay on...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on JBoss EAP
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on JBoss EAP Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring JBoss,...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Tomcat
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Tomcat Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the fastest way to get started using Liferay DXP. This...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Application Servers
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Application Servers As new Liferay versions are released, their dependencies and installation steps change. Liferay made a big change for DXP with the 2025.Q3...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebSphere
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebSphere Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 or below Compatibility with IBM WebSphere application server has been removed in 2024.Q2 and later releases. ...
Installing on Tomcat
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Installing on Tomcat Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on Tomcat. Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the...
Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Wildfly
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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Wildfly Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.1 or below Installing on WildFly requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring WildFly, and...
Installing on JBoss EAP
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Installing on JBoss EAP Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on JBoss EAP. Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP...
Setting Up JNDI on Tomcat
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Setting Up JNDI on Tomcat Liferay 7.4+ To set up JNDI resources, you must put the necessary JDBC drivers in the Tomcat lib folder (i.e. tomcat-9.0.56/lib). For example, if you use an Oracle...