Chapter 4. Tips and Tricks-Advanced Configuration

In the last chapter, you saw the basics of the portal. You learned about how to navigate around in Liferay, and the basic concepts: what a community and an organization are, the portal architecture, and theming.

In this chapter, we will explore more, see how we can tweak Liferay a bit, and learn about some advanced configuration.

By the end of this chapter, we will understand how to do the following:

• Rename our portal

• Enable OpenID SSO

• Enable Terms of Use

• Enable Email Notification

• Add custom attribute

• Integrate OpenOffice

• Change the hostname

• Configure the Mail server