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So just a quick blog post today... I was working with Support where they were trying to help a client that had a failed U64 bundle upgrade in Production and we were trying to understand what the failure was and help the client complete the upgrade. Then my friend Christopher Lui happened to mention: the odd thing is that this customer upgraded their Dev environment...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA66: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.66-ga66 Bundles and other download options ...

If you have multiple node and want to achieve session replication using jgroup cluster then please follow steps to achieve your goal. Tomcat Node-I Configuration  S1: Create tcp.xml(under tomcat/conf directory) and place below content     Example          <config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"         xmlns="urn:org:jgroups"      ...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA65: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.65-ga65 Bundles and other download options ...

Single ready reference of important links for customers & partners of Liferay: Where is the customer portal: https://www.liferay.com/customers Where do I find the documentation – Version & Product wise: https://learn.liferay.com/ Where is the developer portal: https://www.liferay.com/developers Where is the partner portal: https://www.liferay.com/partners Where...

Here are some links on important technical concepts of Liferay – Part 1. Hope this is helpful to all using and learning Liferay. Clustering: Liferay DXP Clustering – Liferay Help Center Upgrade: Upgrade Basics — Liferay Learn LXC: Liferay Experience Cloud – Liferay Help Center Search: Search Overview — Liferay Learn Architecture: Introduction to...

Keywords in the identity & access management space along with single sign on: Active Directory LDAP OAuth Kerberos OpenID SAML CAS Seamless login Shibboleth IAM SSO JWT Identity provider Service provider MFA TFA Principal Identity synchronization Identity lifecycle management Entitlement Authorization Authentication Federated identity B2B...

Searching these keywords on Liferay will keep you updated on what’s happening in the ecosystem. Add “Liferay” in-front of these keywords & search the same. It’s a mix of technical & functional / product feature topics. This is Part-1 of the series. Module loader MVC portlet Logging Upgrade Patch tool Search filter Hot fixes Service packs Search experiences ...

Developers and managers both struggle at times to pre-plan usage of best practices in projects causing many problems which are best avoided. Providing below some learnings & best practices on using and working with Liferay – Part 1. Don’t work directly on the Liferay database. Use the groovy script console in CONTROL PANEL or the Liferay User Interface. Use the...

An unbiased view on why you should adopt a platform like Liferay and what are the benefits in using Liferay: Having implementations in various domains like insurance, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, education, government, intranets, commerce, energy, customer / partner portals and more Open standards based system built with and around Java &...

Notes on Liferay search optimization – Part 1. There are two parts to search optimization in Liferay. One is the internal search and other is the SEO / Digital Marketing for content. Below, I am sharing concepts and keywords to explore for both areas. Liferay internal search: Search BluePrints Search Insights Custom Indexers Tags & Categories ReIndexing ...

Some learnings below from various Liferay upgrades that I have been part of: Upgrades need us to plan various dry runs in advance on non-production environment Divide your upgrade between core / database and non-core upgrade Core includes Liferay engine, configurations and database Non-core includes themes, custom code, integrations and such Understand how to use...

How to debug Liferay? Some pointers. – Part 1. Many a times, we only check at specific places and forget other areas while debugging. This small blog acts as a checklist to check and debug Liferay. Look at installing and using GLOWROOT Check the slow traces / web transactions / errors and the related graphs in GLOWROOT Check the logging levels module wise and overall Check...

Introduction Recently there have been a bunch of questions lately in Slack, in Ask, and even in Liferay Support tickets complaining about the time it takes to log into Liferay and what can be done to improve performance, specifically targeting the hash algorithms... TL;DR - Liferay has increased the rounds on the PBKDF2 hash which is detrimental to your login...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA64: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.64-ga64 Bundles and other download options ...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA63: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.63-ga63 Bundles and other download options ...

In a recent article, I explained how you can setup glowroot to have some great APM capabilities to monitor Liferay: https://liferay.dev/blogs/-/blogs/setting-up-glowroot-apm From time to time, I got to help customers understanding failures in their database upgrade from one Liferay version to a new one. The logs for upgrade can be very long and difficult to analyze. I've just...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA62: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.62-ga62 Bundles and other download options ...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA61: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.61-ga61 For more information on using the...

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below. Docker image To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA60: docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.60-ga60 Bundles and other download options ...