Liferay Beginner's Guide: Quick and easy techniques to build, deploy, and maintain your own Liferay portal with this book and ebook

Extract the zip file that you downloaded to the folder called bundles.

We will call the extracted folder LIFERAY_HOME.

There will be a tomcat folder inside LIFERAY_HOME which we will refer to as TOMCAT_HOME.

Navigate to TOMCAT_HOME/bin and double-click on startup.bat.

Your server should start up properly and you should see the console as shown in the following screenshot:

Open a browser and type http://localhost:8080; this will open the Liferay home page.

Extract the zip file that you downloaded to the folder called bundles (which we created for the last exercise).

We will call the extracted folder LIFERAY_HOME.

There will be a jboss folder inside LIFERAY_HOME, which we will refer to as JBOSS_HOME:

Navigate to JBOSS_HOME/bin and double-click on run.bat.

Your server should start up properly and you should see the console as shown in the following screenshot:

Open a browser and type http://localhost:8080 and this will open the Liferay home page.

Extract the zip file that you downloaded to the bundles folder (created earlier).

We will call the extracted folder LIFERAY_HOME.

There will be a tomcat folder inside LIFERAY_HOME, which we will refer to as GLASSFISH_HOME:

By default, when we install GlassFish, a default domain named domain1 is created. Our Liferay is inside this domain.

So to start Liferay, navigate to GLASSFISH_HOME/bin from a command prompt.

Issue the command asadmin start-domain domain1.

Wait for the domain to start. After the domain is started, it takes some time to deploy the application for the first time.

You can check the log at GLASSFISH_HOME/domains/domain1/logs/server.log.

You can also navigate to the...

Double-click the executable file you downloaded for Oracle WebLogic. You will be presented with the following screen:

Click on Next and when it asks you for a path, select the option Create a new Middleware home and then provide the location where you want to install the server. We will refer to this as WEBLOGIC_HOME.

Click on Next until it shows you the screen where you see the installation progress as follows:

Once Weblogic is done with the installation it will show the following screen, with the option checked to Run Quickstart. Quickstart is a one stop point for creating new domains and upgrading domains from the previous version. It also provides online documentation to get started with.

Continuing from where we left off, when we click on the Done button, we are presented with the QUICKSTART screen as I mentioned earlier.

Let us create a domain for Liferay. Click on Getting started with WebLogic server . This will bring up a screen with two options for creating a new WebLogic domain or extending an existing WebLogic domain. Select the option to create a new WebLogic domain and click on Next:

Provide the name of the domain. It would be good if we name it Liferay. Also, you will have to provide the location of the domain. This is where our Liferay would go. So we would call this DOMAINS_HOME for future reference.

When you click Next it will give you an option to set the name and password for the administrator user. Provide the credentials you would like to have and click on the Next button:

This will bring you a screen from which you can select the mode as well...

Create a folder called Liferay, which we will refer to as LIFERAY_HOME from now on.

Extract the Tomcat zip file you have downloaded earlier to LIFERAY_HOME. You should see a folder named apache-tomcat-6.0.33 inside LIFERAY_HOME. From now on this folder will be referred to as TOMCAT_HOME.

Create a folder called ext inside TOMCAT_HOME/lib. Extract the Portal Dependencies jars zip that you downloaded earlier to this ext folder.

Copy the jars like mysql.jar, jta.jar, and mail.jar inside the TOMCAT_HOME/lib folder, which has been provided to you in the code folder of this chapter.

Create a file called ROOT.xml inside TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost. Add the following content inside ROOT.xml:

<Context path=””>
</Context>

Open the file TOMCAT_HOME/conf/catalina.properties and find a property called common.loader. Append ${catalina.home}/lib/ext/*.jar at the end as follows:

common.loader=${catalina...

Double-click on the installable file that you just downloaded, which will show the following screen:

Click on the Next button and accept the terms of use and again click Next, which will bring up a screen as shown in the following screenshot to select the type of setup:

Select the radio button next to Complete, again click on Next, and then click on Install, as shown in the following screenshot:

This will start the installation of MySQL and after it is done it will show a couple of screens on which you have to click Next again:

Once installed, it will bring up the following screen, which will ask for configuring MySQL server:

Make sure you have ticked the checkbox against Configure the MySQL Server Now and then click on Finish, which will show up the starting screen. Click on the Next button to reach the following screen:

Select Detailed Configuration...