Liferay Portal-Installation and

Configuration
Liferay Portal-Installation and Configuration
Table of Contents
1. Application Servers .................................................................................................................. 1
Geronimo 1.1 with Tomcat ................................................................................................... 1
JBoss 4.04 with Jetty ........................................................................................................... 2
JBoss 4.04 with Tomcat ....................................................................................................... 5
Jetty 5.1.1 .......................................................................................................................... 8
Tomcat 5.5.17 .................................................................................................................. 10
Resin 3.0.19 ..................................................................................................................... 13
Websphere 6.0.2.5 ............................................................................................................. 14
Installation ............................................................................................................... 14
Set Up Database Service ............................................................................................. 15
Mail Configuration .................................................................................................... 19
Install Liferay ........................................................................................................... 23
Start Liferay Portal .................................................................................................... 28
2. Special Cases ........................................................................................................................ 30
Using Oracle 9 and 10 Database ........................................................................................... 30

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1.1. ......................................................................................................................................... 18

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Chapter 1. Application Servers
This document is the expert installation and configuration guide to install Liferay Portal 4.x on top of supported ap-
plication servers. For easy installation with Liferay bundled with an application server, please refer to Chapter 1:
Getting Started [http://content.liferay.com/4.0.0/docs/quickstart/ch01.html] of the Quick Start Guide. Please note
that this documentation will be using MySQL as the database. To use other databases, please subsitute that database
JDBC driver and configure accordingly. Consult the Database section of the developers guide or your Database Ad-
ministrator for more details.

Geronimo 1.1 with Tomcat

1. Download and install Geronimo/Tomcat [http://geronimo.apache.org/downloads.html] into your preferred dir-
ectory. From now on, the directory where you installed Gernonimo will be referred to as $GERONIMO_HOME.

2. Download and install JDK 5 [http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/index.jsp] . Set an environment variable

called %JAVA_HOME% to point to your JDK directory.

3. Download MySQL from www.mysql.com [http://www.mysql.com] and install.

4. Download liferay-portal-4.1.x.war [http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

5. Download portal-kernal.jar from liferay Portal 4.1.x Dependencies

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

6. Populate your database with the portal schema and default data.

a. Download script create-mysql.sql from Liferay Portal 4.1.0 SQL Scripts

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

b. In command prompt, run mysql script by entering mysql < create-mysql.sql.

7. Edit $GERONIMO_HOME\bin\geronimo.bat

insert at line 219:

set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms128m -Xmx512m -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Duser.timezone=GMT

8. Point browser to localhost:8080/console to enter Administration Console.

• Login in as User: system and Password: manager

9. Click Common Libs under Services.

• Click Browse, find portal-kernal.jar and add

• Group: Liferay

• Artifact: Portal-kernel

• Version: enter version number of jar

• Type: Jar

• Click Install???

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10. Click Database Pools under Services

• Click Using the Geronimo database pool wizard

• Name of Database Pool: LiferayPool

• Database Type: MySql

• Click Next

• Driver Jar: click Download a Driver and select MySQL Connector/J3.0.17

• Click Next

• DB User Name: <none>

• DB Password: <none>

• Port: 3306 (default)

• Host: localhost

• Database: lportal

• Click Next

• Click Test Connection

• Click Deploy

11. Click Deploy New under Applications

• Archive: Browse for lieray-portal-4.x.war

• Click Install

12. Click Web App WARs

• Uninstall geronimo/welcome-tomcat/1.1/car

• Start -default/liferayportal/xxxxxxx.../war

13. Open your browser to http://localhost:8080. Click on My Liferay at the upper right hand corner to enter the lo-
gin screen. Your login is [email protected] and your password is test.

JBoss 4.04 with Jetty

1. Download and install JBoss AS [http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossas] into your preferred directory. From now
on, the directory where you installed Tomcat will be referred to as $JBOSS_HOME.

2. Download and install JDK 5 [http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/index.jsp] . Set an environment variable

called %JAVA_HOME% to point to your JDK directory.

3. Download MySQL from www.mysql.com [http://www.mysql.com] and install.

4. Download liferay-portal-4.x.ear [http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

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5. Edit $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml:

<classpath codebase="${jboss.server.lib.url:lib}/ext" archives="*"/>

6. Create directory $JBOSS_HOME/directory/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-jetty.sar.

Download jetty-5.1.4-jboss-4.0.2.sar
[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7322&package_id=132
252] and unzip to directory.

7. Remove $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar.

8. Remove $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/management.

9. Create file $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/liferay-ds.xml with following content:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<datasources>
<local-tx-datasource>
<jndi-name>jdbc/LiferayPool</jndi-name>
<connection-url>
jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8
</connection-url>
<driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class>
<user-name></user-name>
<password></password>
<min-pool-size>0</min-pool-size>
</local-tx-datasource>
</datasources>

10. Go to $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib/ and create new directory ext. Download mysql-con-

nector-java-{$version}-bin.jar [http://www.mysql.com/products/connector/j/] and copy to this directory. (This
is the JDBC connector for MySQL, for other databases, go to appropriate website to download.)

11. Populate your database with the portal schema and default data.

a. Download script create-mysql.sql from Liferay Portal 4.1.0 SQL Scripts

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

b. In command prompt, run mysql script by entering mysql < create-mysql.sql.

12. Download portlet.jar and portal-kernel.jar from liferay Portal 4.1.0 Dependencies
[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

a. Copy to $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib/ext.

13. Set mail properties by replacing the contents of

$JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/mail-service.xml with:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<server>
<mbean code="org.jboss.mail.MailService"
name="jboss:service=MailSession">
<attribute name="JNDIName">mail/MailSession</attribute>
<attribute name="User">nobody</attribute>
<attribute name="Password">password</attribute>
<attribute name="Configuration">
<configuration>

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<property name="mail.store.protocol"
value="imap" />
<property name="mail.transport.protocol"
value="smtp" />
<property name="mail.imap.host"
value="localhost" />
<property name="mail.pop3.host"
value="localhost" />
<property name="mail.smtp.host"
value="localhost" />
</configuration>
</attribute>
</mbean>
</server>

14. Configure JAAS. Edit $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/conf/login-config.xml and comment

out the entire XML for policy 'other' in lines 140-156.

<!--<application-policy name = "other">-->

...
<!--<authentication>
<login-module code =
"org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule"
flag = "required" />
</authentication>
</application-policy>-->

15. Deploy liferay-portal-4.x.ear.

a. Create directory $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/liferay-portal.ear

b. Unzip liferay-portal-4.x.ear to directory

c. Go to JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/liferay-portal.ear/lib

i. Move dom4j.jar,jaxen.jar to JBOSS_HOME/lib

ii. Move commons-collections.jar to JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib

iii. Remove hibernate3.jar,jboss-hibernate.jar from

JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib

16. Edit $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jbossjca-service.xml:

Change Debug attribute in line 63 from true to false:

<attribute name="Debug">false</attribute>

17. In $JBOSS/server/default/deploy/jbossws14.sar/META-INF/jboss-service.xml

Comment out deployer service for JSE and EJB2.1 endpoints

line 36-40

<!--<mbean name="jboss.ws:service=WebServiceDeployerJSE"
code="org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployerJSE">
<depends-list optional-attribute-name="Interceptables">
<depends-list-element>jboss.web:service=WebServer</depends-list-element>

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</depends-list>
</mbean>-->

lines 45-49

<!--<mbean name="jboss.ws:service=WebServiceDeployerEJB21"
code="org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployerEJB21">
<depends-list optional-attribute-name="Interceptables">
<depends-list-element>jboss.ejb:service=EJBDeployer</depends-list-element>
</depends-list>
</mbean>-->

lines 72-75

<!--<mbean name="jboss.ws:service=WebServiceDeployerNestedJSE"
code="org.jboss.ws.server.WebServiceDeployerNestedJSE">
<depends optional-attribute-name="MainDeployer"
proxy-type="attribute">jboss.system:service=MainDeployer</depends>
<depends>jboss.ws:service=WebServiceDeployerJSE</depends>
</mbean>-->

18. Edit $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jms/jbossmq-destinations-service.xml.

Clear out text between server tags:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<server>
</server>

19. Start JBoss. Open your browser to http://localhost:8080. Click on My Liferay at the upper right hand corner to
enter the login screen. Your login is [email protected] and your password is test.

JBoss 4.04 with Tomcat

1. Download and install JBoss AS [http://labs.jboss.com/portal/] into your preferred directory. From now on, the
directory where you installed Tomcat will be referred to as $JBOSS_HOME.

2. Download and install JDK 5 [http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/index.jsp] . Set an environment variable

called %JAVA_HOME% to point to your JDK directory.

3. Download MySQL from www.mysql.com [http://www.mysql.com] and install.

4. Download liferay-portal-4.x.ear [http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

5. Edit $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml:

<classpath codebase="${jboss.server.lib.url:lib}/ext" archives="*"/>

6. Delete $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/ROOT.war.

7. Edit $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/conf/web.xml:

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replace default servlet (lines 79-91) :

<servlet>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>listings</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

with:

<servlet>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>listings</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>input</param-name>
<param-value>4096</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>output</param-name>
<param-value>4096</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

8. Create $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/liferay-ds.xml with following con-

tent:

<datasources>
<local-tx-datasource>
<jndi-name>jdbc/LiferayPool</jndi-name>
<connection-url>
jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8
</connection-url>
<driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class>
<user-name></user-name>
<password></password>
<min-pool-size>0</min-pool-size>
</local-tx-datasource>
</datasources>

9. Go to $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib/ and create new directory ext. Download mysql-con-

nector-java-{$version}-bin.jar [http://www.mysql.com/products/connector/j/] and copy to this directory. (This
is the JDBC connector for MySQL, for other databases, go to appropriate website to download.)

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10. Populate your database with the portal schema and defult data.

a. Download script create-mysql.sql from Liferay Portal 4.x SQL Scripts

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

b. In command prompt, run mysql script by entering mysql < create-mysql.sql.

11. Download portlet.jar and portal-kernel.jar from liferay Portal 4.x Dependencies
[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

a. Copy to $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib/ext.

12. Set mail properties by replacing the contents of

$JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/mail-service.xml with:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<server>
<mbean code="org.jboss.mail.MailService"
name="jboss:service=MailSession">
<attribute name="JNDIName">mail/MailSession</attribute>
<attribute name="User">nobody</attribute>
<attribute name="Password">password</attribute>
<attribute name="Configuration">
<configuration>
<property name="mail.store.protocol"
value="imap" />
<property name="mail.transport.protocol"
value="smtp" />
<property name="mail.imap.host"
value="localhost" />
<property name="mail.pop3.host"
value="localhost" />
<property name="mail.smtp.host"
value="localhost" />
</configuration>
</attribute>
</mbean>
</server>

13. Configure JAAS. Edit $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/conf/login-config.xml and comment

out the entire XML for policy other in lines 140-156.

<!--<application-policy name = "other">-->

...
<!--<authentication>
<login-module code =
"org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule"
flag = "required" />
</authentication>
</application-policy>-->

14. Deploy liferay-portal-4.x.ear.

a. create new directory $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/liferay-portal.ear

b. unzip liferay-portal-4.x.ear to directory

c. go into $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/liferay-portal.ear/lib

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• move dom4j.jar,jaxen.jar to JBOSS_HOME/lib

• move commons-collections.jar goes to JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib

• remove hibernate3.jar,jboss-hibernate.jar from JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib

15. Edit JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jbossjca-service.xml:

change Debug attribute in line 63 from true to false:

<attribute name="Debug">false</attribute>

16. Edit JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jms/jbossmq-destinations-service.xml. Clear out text between server

tags:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<server>
</server>

17. Start JBoss. Open your browser to http://localhost:8080. Click on My Liferay at the upper right hand corner to
enter the login screen. Your login is [email protected] and your password is test.

Jetty 5.1.1
1. Download and install JDK 1.4 or 1.5 [http://java.sun.com/javaee/]. Set an environment variable called
%JAVA_HOME% to point to your JDK directory.

2. Download MySQL from www.mysql.com [http://www.mysql.com] and install.

3. Download and install Jetty 5.1.11 [http://jetty.mortbay.org/jetty/index.html]. Note: Only this version of Jetty is
supported by Liferay. Others may work but will not be covered in this documentation. From now on the home
directory where you installed Jetty will be called $JETTY_HOME.

4. Download liferay-portal-pro-4.1.0.war [http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

5. Download portlet.jar and portal-kernel.jar from liferay Portal 4.x Dependencies

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

a. Create a $JETTY_HOME/lib/ext directory and copy these two files there. If the files do not extract to this
directory, make sure they are in the correct directory by moving them there.

6. Populate your database with the portal schema and default data.

a. Download script create-mysql.sql from Liferay Portal 4.x SQL Scripts

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads]

b. In command prompt, run mysql script by entering mysql < create-mysql.sql

7. Edit $JETTY_HOME/extra/etc/start-plus.config.

$(jetty.home)/lib/ext/

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$(jetty.home)/lib/ext/*

8. Create a data source bound to jdbc/LiferayPool by editing $JETTY_HOME/etc/jetty.xml.

<Call name="addService">
<Arg>
<New class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.JotmService">
<Set name="Name">TransactionMgr</Set>
<Call name="addDataSource">
<Arg>jdbc/LiferayPool</Arg>
<Arg>
<New
class="org.enhydra.jdbc.standard.StandardXADataSource">
<Set name="DriverName">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</Set>
<Set
name="Url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8</
<Set name="User"></Set>
<Set name="Password"></Set>
</New>
</Arg>
<Arg>
<New
class="org.enhydra.jdbc.pool.StandardXAPoolDataSource">
<Arg type="Integer">4</Arg>
<Set name="MinSize">4</Set>
<Set name="MaxSize">15</Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</Call>
</New>
</Arg>
</Call>

9. Download mysql-connector-java-{$version}-bin.jar [http://www.mysql.com/products/connector/j/] and copy to

to $JETTY_HOME/lib/ext.. (This is the JDBC connector for MySQL, for other databases, go to appropri-
ate website to download.)

10. Create a mail session bound to mail/MailSession.

a. Edit $JETTY_HOME/etc/jetty.xml and configure a mail session.

<Call name="addService">
<Arg>
<New
class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.MailService">
<Set name="Name">MailService</Set>
<Set name="JNDI">mail/MailSession</Set>
<Put
name="mail.smtp.host">localhost</Put>
</New>
</Arg>
</Call>

11. Create $JETTY_HOME/etc/jaas.config.

PortalRealm {
com.liferay.portal.kernel.security.jaas.PortalLoginModule
required;
};

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12. Create directory $JETTY_HOME/webapps/root and unpack liferay-portal-pro-4.x.war.

13. Go to $JETTY_HOME/webapps/root/WEB-INF/lib and delete xercesImpl.jar and

xml-apis.jar.

14. Copy $JETTY_HOME/webapps/root/WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging.jar to

JETTY_HOME/ext (overwriting existing one).

15. Create batch file.

a. Create a directory $JETTY_HOME/bin

b. Create run.bat (Note, this is for Windows platform. For other platforms, configure accordingly)

@echo off
if "" == "%JAVA_HOME%" goto errorJavaHome
%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java -Xmx512m -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Duser.timezone=GMT
-Djava.security.auth.login.config=../etc/jaas.config
-DSTART=../extra/etc/start-plus.config -jar ../start.jar ../etc/jetty.xml
goto end
:errorJavaHome
echo JAVA_HOME not defined.
goto end
:end

Note: If you get a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception while starting up Jetty, give your JVM more
memory by setting -Xmx512m.

16. Start Liferay by running run.bat. Open your browser to http://localhost:8080. Click on My Liferay at the upper
right hand corner to enter the login screen. Your login is [email protected] and your password is test.

Tomcat 5.5.17
1. Download and install Tomcat 5.5.17 [http://tomcat.apache.org/] into your preferred directory. From now on, the
directory where you installed Tomcat will be referred to as $TOMCAT_HOME.

2. Download and install JDK 5 [http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/index.jsp] . Set an environment variable

called %JAVA_HOME% to point to your JDK directory.

Note: If you are using JDK 1.4, you must download and install the JDK 1.4 Compatability Package at tom-
cat.apache. For JDK 1.4 users: delete
$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/xercesImpl.jar. For JDK 5 users: move
$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/xercesImpl.jar to TOM-
CAT_HOME/common/endorsed.

3. Download MySQL from www.mysql.com [http://www.mysql.com] and install.

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4. Create and edit $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml to set up the portal web ap-

plication.

<Context path="">
</Context>

5. Download liferay-portal-pro-4.x.war [http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

6. Download portlet.jar and portal-kernel.jar from liferay Portal 4.x Dependencies

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

a. Create a $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib/ext directory and copy these two files there. If the files do
not extract to this directory, make sure they are in the correct directory by moving them there.

7. Edit $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/catalina.properties.

common.loader=
${catalina.home}/common/classes,\
...\
${catalina.home}/common/lib/ext/*.jar

8. Configure data sources for your database. Make sure the JDBC driver for your database is accessible by Tom-
cat.

a. Download mysql-connector-java-{$version}-bin.jar [http://www.mysql.com/products/connector/j/]. (This

is the JDBC connector for MySQL, for other databases, go to appropriate website to download.)

b. Copy to $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib/ext.

9. Edit $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml.

<Context...>
<Resource
name="jdbc/LiferayPool"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8"
username=""
password=""
maxActive="100"
maxIdle="30"
maxWait="10000"
/>
</Context>

10. Populate your database with the portal schema and default data.

a. Download script create-mysql.sql from Liferay Portal 4.x SQL Scripts

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

b. In command prompt, run mysql script by entering mysql < create-mysql.sql

11. Create a mail session bound to mail/MailSession.

Edit $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml and configure a mail session.

<Context...>

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<Resource
name="mail/MailSession"
auth="Container"
type="javax.mail.Session"
mail.transport.protocol="smtp"
mail.smtp.host="localhost"
/>
</Context>

12. Configure JAAS.

Edit $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml and configure a security realm.

<Context...>
<Realm
className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JAASRealm"
appName="PortalRealm"
userClassNames="com.liferay.portal.security.jaas.PortalPrincipal"
roleClassNames="com.liferay.portal.security.jaas.PortalRole"
debug="99"
useContextClassLoader="false"
/>
</Context>

13. Repeat this step for a file called $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/tunnel.xml if you

want to enable Liferay's HTTP tunneling.

14. Create $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/jaas.config.

PortalRealm {
com.liferay.portal.kernel.security.jaas.PortalLoginModule
required;
};

15. Edit $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/catalina.bat so that Tomcat can reference the login module.

rem ----- Execute...

set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms128m -Xmx512m -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Duser.timezone=GMT
-Djava.security.auth.login.config=%CATALINA_HOME%/conf/jaas.config

16. Delete contents $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT directory.

17. Unpack liferay-portal-pro-4.x.war to $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT.

18. For supporting UTF-8 UIRIEncoding, edit $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml.

<!-- Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080 -->

<Connector port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
/>

19. Run Tomcat, point browser to http://localhost:8080. Sign in as [email protected] and password test

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Resin 3.0.19
1. Download and install Resin [http://www.caucho.com/] into your preferred directory. From now on, the direct-
ory where you installed Resin will be referred to as $JBOSS_HOME.

2. Download and install JDK 5 [http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/index.jsp] . Set an environment variable

called %JAVA_HOME% to point to your JDK directory.

3. Download MySQL from www.mysql.com [http://www.mysql.com] and install.

4. Edit $RESIN_HOME/conf/resin.conf.

replace lines 60-64

<class-loader>
<tree-loader path="${resin.home}/lib"/>
<tree-loader path="${server.root}/lib"/>
</class-loader>

with

<class-loader>
<tree-loader path="${resin.home}/lib"/>
<tree-loader path="${server.root}/lib"/>
<compiling-loader path="${server.rootDir}/common/classes"/>
<library-loader path="${server.rootDir}/common/lib"/>
</class-loader>

add:

<database>
<jndi-name>jdbc/LiferayPool</jndi-name>
<driver type="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver">
<url>jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8</url>
<user></user>
<password></password>
</driver>
<prepared-statement-cache-size>8</prepared-statement-cache-size>
<max-connections>20</max-connections>
<max-idle-time>30s</max-idle-time>
</database>
<resource jndi-name="mail/MailSession" type="javax.mail.Session">
<init>
<mail.store.protocol>imap</mail.store.protocol>
<mail.transport.protocol>smtp</mail.transport.protocol>
<mail.imap.host>localhost</mail.imap.host>
<mail.pop3.host>localhost</mail.pop3.host>
<mail.smtp.host>localhost</mail.smtp.host>
</init>
</resource>
<system-property
javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory="org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactory
/>
<system-property
javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory="org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl"
/>
<system-property

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javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory="org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryIm
/>
<system-property
org.xml.sax.driver="org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser" />

5. Go to $RESIN_HOME and create new directory common\lib. Download mysql-connect-

or-java-{$version}-bin [http://www.mysql.com/products/connector/j/].jar and copy to this direct-
ory. (This is the JDBC connector for MySQL, for other databases, go to appropriate website to download.)

6. Populate your database with the portal schema and default data.

a. Download script create-mysql.sql from Liferay Portal 4.1 SQL Scripts

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads].

b. In command prompt, run mysql script by entering mysql < create-mysql.sql.

7. Download portlet.jar and portal-kernel.jar from Liferay Portal 4.1 Dependencies

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads] and copy to $RESIN_HOME\common\lib.

8. Delete contents of $RESIN_HOME\webapps\ROOT.

9. Unzip liferay-portal-pro-4.x.war to $RESIN_HOME\webapps\ROOT.

10. Download liferay-portal-ent-4.0.0-src.zip.

a. Go to $\lib\development\ and copy activation.jar and mail.jar to

$RESIN_HOME\common\lib , saxpath.jar and xalan.jar to $RESIN_HOME\lib

b. Go to $\lib\portal and copy xercesImpl.jar and xml-apis.jar to

$RESIN_HOME\lib

11. Go to $RESIN_HOME\bin and create run.bat.

..\httpd.exe -Xmx512m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Duser.timezone=GMT

12. Start Resin. Open your browser to http://localhost:8080. Click on My Liferay at the upper right hand corner to
enter the login screen. Your login is [email protected] and your password is test.

Websphere 6.0.2.5
Note: Throughout this installation and configuration process, Websphere will prompt you to Click Save to apply
changes to Master Configuration. Do so intermittently to save your changes.

Installation
1. Download Liferay Portal Professional 4.1.0 WAR , unzip and compile.

2. Install IBM Websphere.

3. Install MySql.

4. Download and extract these liferay jars to websphere\appserver\lib\ext.

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• portal-kernel.jar and portlet.jar (Liferay Portal 4.1.1 Dependencies

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads])

• liferay-portal-jaas.jar (Liferay Portal Enterprise 4.1.1 JAAS Libraries

[http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads])

• portal-ear\mysql-connector-java-3.x.x-bin.jar (MySQL
[http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/3.1.html])

Set Up Database Service

1. Start Websphere.

2. Open Adminstrative Console and login.

3. Click Resources, click JDBC Providers.

4. Click Next.

5. For name, enter name of jdbc provider, e.g. liferayjdbc.

6. Clear any text in classpath.

7. For Implementation class name enter

com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource

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8. Click OK.

9. Click Data sources under Additional Properties.

10. Click New.

11. Enter a name: liferaydatabasesource.

12. Enter JNDI, jdbc/LiferayPool.

13. Everything else should stay to default.

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14. Click OK.

15. Under Additional Properties, click Custom properties.

16. Click New.

17. Create 3 custom properties by entering Name, Value and clicking OK for each row on this table.

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Table 1.1.
name value
1. user root
2. serverName localhost
3. databaseName lportal

18. When done correctly, custom properties should look like this:

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19. Download Liferay Portal 4.1.0 SQL Scripts [http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads] and extract cre-
ate-mysql.sql.

20. In command prompt, run mysql script by entering mysql < trunk\sql\create\create-mysql.sql

21. Click data sources test connection to test.

Mail Configuration
1. Click Resources, Mail providers.

2. Click Built-in Mail Provider.

3. Click Mail Sessions.

4. Click New.

a. Name: liferaymail

b. JNDI name: mail/MailSession

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5. Click OK.

6. Click Security.

7. Click Global security.

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8. Select Enable global security.

9. Deselect enforce java 2 security.

10. In Active user registry, select custom user registry.

11. Click Apply to go to Custom user registry page.

12. Enter 'system' for server user ID.

13. Enter 'password' for server user password.

14. Enter Custom registry class name

com.liferay.portal.security.jaas.ext.websphere.PortalUserRegistry.

15. Click Apply.

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16. Insert username/password into database.

17. Open a mysql console.

18. Enter Use lportal

19. Enter Insert into User_ (companyId, userId, password_) values ('system',
'system', 'password');

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Install Liferay
1. Click Applications, click Install new applications

2. Browse for portal-ear\liferay-portal.war.

3. Enter context root '/'.

4. Click Next

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5. Select Generate Default Bindings>Override default bindings>Use default viral host name for web mod-
ules:

6. Click Next. Click Continue. For Steps 1 to 4, click Next to apply defaults.

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7. In Step 5, check all authenticated.

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8. Click Next.

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9. Click Finish.

10. Wait for installation process.

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11. Save this configuration to master configuration by clicking on System administration and Save Changes to
Master Repository.

Start Liferay Portal

1. Applications.

a. Click Enterprise Applications.

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b. Uninstall DefaultApplication, PlantsByWebSphere and SamplesGallery.

c. Select liferay-portal.war, click start

2. Open up browser and point to http://localhost:9080. Liferay portal home page should be seen.

3. Edit your Stop the Server shortcut to set the user id and password. If you don't do this, you will not be able to
stop the server after you restart WebSphere: "C:\Program
Files\WebSphere\AppServer\bin\stopServer.bat" server1 -user system -
password password

4. Stop Websphere and retart it. Login on with 'system' for username and 'password' for password.

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Using Oracle 9 and 10 Database
For Oracle 9 and 10 use jdbc driver ojdbc14.jar
[http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/htdocs/jdbc_10201.html]

For Oracle 10, also follow this step:

1. Edit portal.properties and add:

hibernate.jdbc.batch_size=0

Do not use the default setting of 20.

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