Time for action – deploying Liferay

Next, follow these steps to configure Liferay with Tomcat:

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

   <Context path=””>
   </Context>
   

6. 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...