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Updating User Profile Pictures for Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions

Updating User Profile Pictures for Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions Users have profile pictures. Administrative Users can upload images in the Edit User form, and Users can update their own account...

Installing Liferay

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Installing Liferay Liferay runs on an application server. There are three ways to host Liferay: Using a Docker container Using a Liferay Tomcat bundle, on premises On a supported application...

Users

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Users Every person who accesses a Liferay site is considered a user. Unauthenticated users are considered Guest users. Liferay ships out-of-the-box with a default admin user who has complete...

User Group Sites

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User Group Sites With user group sites, you can create pages that are added automatically to each member’s personal site. These pages are organized into two page sets, My Profile (public) and My...

Updating User Profile Pictures

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Updating User Profile Pictures Users have profile pictures. Administrative Users can upload images in the Edit User form, and Users can update their own account information, including profile...

Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrades

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Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrades

Assigning Roles to User Segments

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Assigning Roles to User Segments Liferay DXP 7.2 SP2+, Liferay CE 7.3.1 GA2+ User segments are dynamically assigned user collections. If a segment can be well-defined with the available criteria,...

Assigning Users to Roles

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Assigning Users to Roles The location of a role's assignment UI corresponds with the Role's scope. Regular Roles Globally scoped regular roles are available for configuration in the DXP Control...

Creating and Managing Roles

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Creating and Managing Roles Once you understand roles and permissions, you can create the roles and empower your users to work within your Liferay DXP solution. Create and manage roles in Control...

Standard Permissions

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Standard Permissions Liferay defines several standard permissions across various applications and resources, such as view, edit, update, and more. Managing permissions Permissions are best managed...

Understanding Roles and Permissions

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Understanding Roles and Permissions To give users the necessary permissions to perform their intended function within Liferay DXP, you must first associate the set of permissions with a role. ...

Configuring a Database

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Configuring a Database By default for demonstration purposes, Liferay DXP/Portal is configured to use an embedded HSQL database. Beyond demonstration purposes, we recommend using a full-featured,...

Adding and Managing Users

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Adding and Managing Users Core user management activities include adding, editing, and deleting users. These activities are typically restricted to Administrative users. Adding Users Open the...

Setting Up JNDI on Tomcat

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Setting Up JNDI on Tomcat Liferay 7.4+ To set up JNDI resources, you must put the necessary JDBC drivers in the Tomcat lib folder (i.e. tomcat-9.0.56/lib). For example, if you use an Oracle...

Installing on WildFly

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Installing on WildFly Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on WildFly. Installing on WildFly requires installing the DXP WAR,...

Running Liferay for the First Time

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Running Liferay for the First Time Once you've installed Liferay DXP/Portal and configured a database for it, it is ready to run. Start the Server Run the startup script bundled with your...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Application Servers

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Application Servers As new Liferay versions are released, their dependencies and installation steps change. Liferay made a big change for DXP with the 2025.Q3...

Installing a Liferay-Tomcat Bundle

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Installing a Liferay-Tomcat Bundle The Tomcat Bundle includes the Apache Tomcat application server with Liferay DXP/Portal pre-deployed. It's the easiest, fastest way to install Liferay on...

Installing Liferay on an Application Server

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Installing Liferay on an Application Server You can install Liferay DXP or Liferay Portal on any supported application server. This is typically the most practical installation type to use in...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on JBoss EAP

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on JBoss EAP Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring JBoss,...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Tomcat

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Tomcat Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the fastest way to get started using Liferay DXP. This...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Wildfly

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on Wildfly Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.1 or below Installing on WildFly requires installing the DXP WAR, installing dependencies, configuring WildFly, and...

Installing on JBoss EAP

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Installing on JBoss EAP Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on JBoss EAP. Installing on JBoss EAP requires installing the DXP...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebLogic

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebLogic Liferay DXP 2025.Q2/Portal 2025.Q1 or below If you are using WebLogic as your application server, it is highly recommended to install DXP to a...

Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebSphere

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Installing Earlier Liferay Versions on WebSphere Liferay DXP 2024.Q1/Portal GA112 or below Compatibility with IBM WebSphere application server has been removed in 2024.Q2 and later releases. ...

Installing on Tomcat

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Installing on Tomcat Liferay DXP 2025.Q3+/Portal 2026.Q1+ For pre-Jakarta Liferay versions, see Installing Earlier Versions on Tomcat. Using a Liferay-Tomcat bundle or Docker image is the...

Blue-Green Deployments

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Blue-Green Deployments Blue-green is a deployment technique in which you duplicate your production environment (the blue environment) and modify the duplicate (the green environment) with software...

Performing Rolling Restarts

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Performing Rolling Restarts The rolling restart cluster maintenance process involves shutting down and updating nodes one at a time (while the other nodes are running) until they're all updated....

Migrating Liferay Instances

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Migrating Liferay Instances Liferay DXP 2025.Q2+/Portal GA148+ [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) You can...

Maintaining Clustered Installations

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Maintaining Clustered Installations Setting up your Liferay DXP installation to function in a cluster provides performance and scalability improvements, but also requires additional consideration...

Maintaining a Liferay Installation

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Maintaining a Liferay Installation Starting with Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3+ and 7.4 GA1+, Liferay adopted a new release model for delivering updates and fixes. This new approach is referred to as Bundle...

Backing Up

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Backing Up Once you have your DXP installation running, you should implement a comprehensive backup plan that accounts for unforeseen events. Backup copies are also valuable for testing updates...

Advanced Patching for DXP 7.2

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Advanced Patching for DXP 7.2 Here are the DXP 7.2 advanced patching topics: Using Slim Bundles demonstrates conserving disk space by using DXP fix pack bundles that don't include Patch Files. ...

Patching Liferay

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Patching Liferay Liferay DXP uses Bundle Releases for its latest releases. Please see Updating Liferay if you are applying an Update. All Hotfixes are patches. If you're applying a Hotfix,...

Accessing DXP Patch Code

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Accessing DXP Patch Code Subscribers Liferay DXP Fix Pack and Hotfix source code is available in a private GitHub repository called liferay-dxp. The source code facilitates identifying and...

Installing the Patching Tool

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Installing the Patching Tool Subscribers The Patching Tool is easy to install and update. Installation Download the Patching Tool from the Customer Portal. For DXP 7.3+, download the latest...

Configuring Internally Managed Services

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Configuring Internally Managed Services Internally managed services are configured and managed within the chart. These services are defined using the dependencies property: dependencies: : ...

Slimming Down Patched Installations

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Slimming Down Patched Installations Subscribers In Liferay DXP 7.2, patch information is retained in Patch Files in the installation by default. This facilitates restoring DXP to a previous patch...

Custom Code and Patch Compatibility

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Custom Code and Patch Compatibility Subscribers If you deploy code that customizes or patches your DXP 7.2 installation, you must maintain its compatibility with all patches you're using. The...

Getting Patch Information

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Getting Patch Information Subscribers You can see patch information at a glance, which helps maintain your installation and get help from Liferay Support. The Patching Tool's info command lists...

Provisioning Liferay in Kubernetes

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Provisioning Liferay in Kubernetes Cloud environments require a layer of orchestration to manage containers, and that is usually Kubernetes. If you're already heavily invested in the cloud, you can...

Running Liferay DXP in Amazon Web Services

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Running Liferay DXP in Amazon Web Services There are two ways to host Liferay DXP in AWS: Installing Liferay DXP from AWS Marketplace. Installing Liferay DXP using the plain Helm chart. For...

AWS Managed Resources Reference

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AWS Managed Resources Reference By default, Liferay uses several managed services to run background operations when hosting in AWS. These resources facilitate the provisioning and continued use of...

Applying a Hotfix

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Applying a Hotfix Subscribers A Hotfix is a fix or collection of fixes delivered between Updates (or between Fix Packs for versions before DXP 7.3 SP3) to address a customer's confirmed critical...

Configuring the Patching Tool

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Configuring the Patching Tool Subscribers The Patching Tool can be adapted to any DXP installation. The tool's auto-discovery option is the easiest way to configure the Patching Tool. If you...

Uninstalling Patches

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Uninstalling Patches Subscribers After you install a patch, you may decide to restore your installation to a previous patch level. Here you'll learn how to Uninstall Patches Revert (uninstall)...

Auto-Scaling in AWS

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Auto-Scaling in AWS Liferay's auto-scaling feature automatically creates and destroys replicas (nodes) in the Liferay cluster to optimize performance. You can choose the minimum and maximum number...

Configuring Externally Managed Services

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Configuring Externally Managed Services Externally managed services are created, configured, and managed outside the Liferay Helm chart. Database Configuring an external database for Liferay in...

Using Slim Bundles

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Using Slim Bundles Subscribers Liferay DXP 7.2 Fix Packs and Service Packs are also released bundled with the Tomcat application server. They are available as traditional bundles and Slim Bundles....

Installing Patches in Earlier Versions

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Installing Patches in Earlier Versions Subscribers The Patching Tool applies Fix Packs (including Security Fix Packs and Service Packs) for versions prior to Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3. It also applies...

Updating Liferay

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Updating Liferay Liferay DXP 7.3 SP3+/Portal 7.4 GA1+ Update your Liferay installation with Bundle Releases. The latest features, security releases, as well as library updates are all delivered...

Updating Previous Versions of Liferay

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Updating Previous Versions of Liferay Staying current with updates gives you the best security and quality. Security Updates are releases that address the latest security issues immediately. ...

Viewing Metrics from Kubernetes

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Viewing Metrics from Kubernetes It is important to track resource usage in the Kubernetes cluster. To view your resource usage, you must use a collector and an exporter. Before you can view...

Configuring Liferay in AWS

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Configuring Liferay in AWS Since Liferay installations hosted in AWS use Helm, you must configure and customize Liferay using the Helm CLI. You can write as many .yaml files as you need. To update...

JVM Configuration

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JVM Configuration As of Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA125+, Liferay DXP/Portal requires a Java JDK 17 or 21 (prior versions support JDKs 8 and 11) with specific JVM option settings. There are also...

Installing Liferay in Amazon Web Services

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Installing Liferay in Amazon Web Services You can run Liferay DXP on AWS using a new or an existing EKS cluster; a plain installation or Liferay's offering on AWS Marketplace. Either installation...

Activating Liferay DXP

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Activating Liferay DXP Subscription Required Liferay DXP is activated using an XML (.xml) activation key. It specifies your DXP subscription terms or trial agreement. When you run Liferay DXP for...

Configuring Cluster Link

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Configuring Cluster Link Enabling Cluster Link activates distributed caching. The cache is distributed across multiple Liferay DXP nodes running concurrently. Cluster Link uses Ehcache replication....

Session Replication with Tomcat

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Session Replication with Tomcat Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA92+ To ensure user session data is synchronized across all instances in the cluster, Liferay supports session replication. If one...

Portal Developer Properties

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Portal Developer Properties There are Portal Properties that facilitate development. Liferay's portal-developer.properties file includes all of them. The portal-developer.properties file is enabled...

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