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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

You're reading from   Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook Over 60 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently create complex and highly personalized enterprise intranet solutions with Liferay Portal 6.x CE

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782164289
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installation and Basic Configuration 2. Authentication and Registration Process FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with a Liferay User / User Group / Organization 4. Liferay Site Configuration 5. Roles and Permissions 6. Documents and Media in Liferay 7. Working with Content 8. Search and Content Presentation Tools 9. Liferay Workflow Capability 10. Collaboration Tools 11. Quick Tricks and Advanced Knowledge 12. Basic Performance Tuning Index

Migrating content from one database to another database


The content migration tool is an interesting feature that Liferay provides as an out-of the-box core implementation. As you know, Liferay gives administrators a choice to select one of the database engines, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and so on. It allows users to change the database engine without losing data.

Let's assume that our Liferay instance uses the PostgreSQL database, and we want to change it to MySQL engine.

Getting ready…

In order to migrate our content, we need to create a new MySQL database. To achieve it log in to your database:

mysql -u {USER} -p

Then, create a new database using the following command:

CREATE DATABASE lportal
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8
DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

How to do it…

This functionality is available out-of-the-box. Moreover, it doesn't require developer support. All migration processes can be done with the help of the GUI. To migrate data, follows these steps:

  1. Log in as an administrator...

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