Chapter 5. Building your First Liferay Site

In the previous chapter, you saw the advanced configuration of Liferay. You now know how to rename the portal, enable OpenID SSO, enable Terms of Use for your portal, change the hostname, configure the mail server, and so on. After successfully completing all the exercises mentioned in the previous chapter, you should have the above mentioned topics configured in your portal instance. Also, you can access your portal using http://neighbourhood.cignex.com instead of http://localhost:8080.

Now, we have done all the groundwork to build a Liferay website. In this chapter, you will start building your Liferay site. In the rest of the book, we will keep building our CIGNEX Neighborhood portal. This chapter will serve as a foundation to the rest of the chapters of this book. You will go through the following concepts in this chapter:

• Components of the site

• Community and organization—the most basic need of any Liferay Portal

• Knowing the user group

• Knowing page...