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Hi folks, I have been fighting with my first fresh installations of liferay ce 7. Here is my version.sh output:

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/local/liferay/tomcat-8.0.32
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/local/liferay/tomcat-8.0.32
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/liferay/tomcat-8.0.32/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr/local
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/local/liferay/tomcat-8.0.32/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/liferay/tomcat-8.0.32/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Server version: Apache Tomcat/8.0.32
Server built:   Feb 2 2016 19:34:53 UTC
Server number:  8.0.32.0
OS Name:        FreeBSD
OS Version:     11.0-RELEASE-p9
Architecture:   amd64
JVM Version:    1.8.0_131-b11
JVM Vendor:     Oracle Corporation

I have successfully gone through the installation wizard locally on my win7 laptop with and without sample data, hsql and postgresql. But my installation attempts on the ec2 server are not going so well. I have removed the /usr/local/liferay folder and extracted the bundle zip to /usr/local/liferay. I have dropped, recreated, and granted all privileges to the postgresql 9.4 database I'm trying to use for this. Here is my /usr/local/liferay/portal-ext.properties with the passwords swapped out:

admin.email.from.address=test@umich.edu
admin.email.from.name=DevConnect NonProd
company.default.name=DevConnect NonProd
company.default.web.id=umich.edu
default.admin.first.name=Agile
default.admin.screen.name=AgileTeam
default.admin.last.name=Team
default.admin.email.address.prefix=test
default.admin.password=B0B2496285CF274EB298AAFE2E8F370AFCA21257C6C01665FFEEB051D44767E0
jdbc.default.driverClassName=org.postgresql.Driver
jdbc.default.password=981FC62577417A3BC049F0E6A6BC9A9AD929F1F34B94752BCBEB3F8DA156A776
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:postgresql://test.umich.edu:5432/devconnect_np?ssl=true&sslfactory=org.postgresql.ssl.NonValidatingFactory
jdbc.default.username=devconnect_np
liferay.home=/usr/local/liferay
setup.wizard.add.sample.data=off
setup.wizard.enabled=false
#company.security.auth.requires.https=true
#session.enable.phishing.protection=false
#web.server.http.port=80
#web.server.https.port=443
#web.server.protocol=https
web.server.host=connect-np.dev.umich.edu
#redirect.url.security.mode=domain
#redirect.url.domains.allowed=connect-np.dev.umich.edu

I can see the homepage at http://connect-np.dev.umich.edu:8080 and click on sign in, in the upper right. But when I try logging in with the test@umich.edu email address and the default admin password specified in my portal-ext.properties I see the following warning log entry:

21:47:47,632 WARN  [http-nio-8080-exec-3][SecurityPortletContainerWrapper:348] User 0 is not allowed to access URL http://connect-np.dev.umich.edu:8080/web/guest/home and portlet com_liferay_login_web_portlet_LoginPortlet

My browser goes to:

http://connect-np.dev.umich.edu:8080/web/guest/home?p_p_id=com_liferay_login_web_portlet_LoginPortlet&p_p_state=exclusive&p_p_mode=view&_com_liferay_login_web_portlet_LoginPortlet_javax.portlet.action=%2Flogin%2Flogin&_com_liferay_login_web_portlet_LoginPortlet_mvcRenderCommandName=%2Flogin%2Flogin&p_p_lifecycle=0

And the page has an unstyled form with the email address & password
I started looking in the user_ and comparing the records created on the server install vs my local postgresql installation, to see if maybe the password didn't get set properly, but nothing obvious stands out to me. The error kind of sounds like it isn't authenticating to the user, because userid 0 doesn't exist. My default admin user has a userid of 20156.

Hoping this is something obvious, or maybe there is a doc/wiki page I'm not finding that point how to turn the logging levels up for liferay 7 (tomcat 8 bundle) so that I can get more debug logs for the com.liferay.login namespace to see if there is an earlier failure that is not represented well by the warning. Thank you for your help.

-Luke