Liferay Portal 6.2 installation and configuration

1. Liferay 6.2 Portal Installation
2014
Liferay 6.2 Portal Installation
1. Environment: Windows, Tomcat Server and Liferay 6.2CE with MySQL
Note:
I have used windows 7 operating system you can apply same steps to any environment. Only
change in setting environment variables and download software based on OS remaining all are
same for any operating system.
2. Required Steps
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Install JDK and setting required environment variables (JAVA_HOME, path)
Download MySQL server and Start MySQL server
Download HeidiSQL and install(Optional)
Connecting to MySQL server and create Database for Liferay
Download Liferay 6.2 Tomcat Bundles
Configure database setting in portal-ext.properties file and place properties file in
Liferay Home directory.
7. Start tomcat server and access Liferay Portal
8. Complete required basic configurations for liferay portal
3. Install JDK and setting required environment variables (JAVA_HOME, path) java SDK 1.6
4. Download MySQL server and Start MySQL server
5. Download HeidiSQL and install
Download HeidiSQL to access MySQL server databases. This is very good user interface to
access database and modifies the data base tables.
6. Connecting to MySQL server and create Database for Liferay
We can do this in two ways
1. Connecting MySQL from HeidiSQL and create Liferay Data base
2. Connecting to MySQL from MS DOS command prompt and create data base for liferay
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2014
7. Connecting MySQL from HeidiSQL and create Liferay Data base
Once successful installation of HeidiSQL, go to windows start and click on HeidiSQL.
8.In Login window enter following details and connect to MySQL server.
Click on New and enter the following details
Host Name: 127.0.0.1 OR localhost
User: root
Password: nothing it’s empty
9. Once you successfully login you can see databases view as follows
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2014
10. Create lportal database for Liferay portal. Right click on root node and select create
new database
11. Enter database name lportal and click on Ok then database will be created
12. Connecting to MySQL from MS DOS command prompt and create data base for liferay
This is another way to connecting to MySQL server with windows command prompt
Open MS Dos command prompt from your system
Go to MySQL server bin directory from command prompt and enter following command
and press enter
It will ask password no need to enter password (because our password is empty) and
again press enter
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2014
13. Now create data base using following command and press enter then loprtal data
base will be created.
14. Download Liferay 6.2 Tomcat bundle.
Download Liferay 6.2 Tomcat bundle from following location
https://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/available-releases
Now extract the Liferay 6.2 Tomcat Bundle Zip file in your desired location of your system
Once you extract the zip file go to extracted folder then you can see following directories and
files.
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2014
Note:
This extracted directory is called Liferay Home
15. Configure database setting in portal-ext.properties file and place properties file in
Liferay Home directory
Once you extracted the zip file then you can see liferay-potal-6.2.0-ce-rc4 directory this is
called Liferay Home directory or we can say the directory which contains tomcat server is called
Liferay Home directory
Create one file called portal-ext.properties file in Lifeay Home Directory and add following
MySQL data base configurations.
Note:
Here our data base name is lportal already we created in previous step. You can create any
database name of your choice but you need specify in portal-ext.properties file.
The following screen shows you portal-ext.properties file in Liferay Home directory
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2014
16. Start Tomcat server and access Liferay Portal
Go to Liferay Home and you can find tomcat (tomcat-7.0.40) directory
Open tomcat directory in side you can find bin directory
Open bin directory double click on startup.bat then tomcat server will be started.
The following screen shows tomcat bin directory startup.bat
When you see the server startup in some seconds then it indicates liferay application is
started
17. Access Liferay Portal
Use following URL in browser address bar to access liferay portal
http://localhost:8080/
18. Complete required basic configurations for liferay portal
Once access Liferay portal from above URL it will show basic configuration page and we need to
fill information like
Portal Name: anything your choice
Default Language: your choice from select box
Admin First Name: anything your choice
Admin Last Name: anything your choice
Admin Email: anything your choice (default is test@liferay.com)
In data base section you can find our lportal congigurations
After fill the information click on Finish Configuration button it will take few seconds to store
configurations.
Note:
Remember email which you have given, this is admin email for next login.
The following is liferay portal basic configuration page
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The following is liferay portal welcome page
References :
Go through following liferay user guide to do more things in your portal
https://www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.2/user-guide
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