Liferay 7 Installation

Liferay 7 Installation

Step 1 Download Liferay and Java 8 and Eclipse

• Download liferay 7 Community Edition (liferay-ce-portal-tomcat-7.0-ga2)
• Download Liferay Eclipse IDE (liferay-ide-eclipse-windows-x64-3.0.1-ga2)
• Extract Liferay portal tomcat & Liferay IDE and  into local
• Install Java8 and MySql(verions > 5.6)

Step 2 Server Configuration

• Open your Eclipse IDE GoTo Windows--Show View--click on server 
• Click available link to create new server 
• Go to Liferay  and configure Liferay 7.x as shown below

• Click Next and set path of your local directory where you have extracted Liferay portal tomcat. 
• Note Liferay 7 requires complete jdk8 not just jre so click on Installed JRE and configure your jdk as shown below.

• Click on Add

• Select Standard VM and click on Next

• Then give path of your jdk and click finish 

• Now select available jdk option and click on Finish 

Step 3 Creating Liferay Workspace

• Goto File ---New--click on liferay workspace project.

• Enter name of workspace and download liferay bundle must be unchecked since we have already download  liferay bundle.
• Click on Finish.

• This will create your liferay workspace as shown below.

Step 4 Database Configration

• Create portal-ext.properties file and add database properties as shown bellow
• Note here liferayportal is my database name in mysql
• Change username,password and liferay home path according to your configration and installation directory
• Place portal-ext.properties parallel to your tomcat server directory

jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

jdbc.default.password=root

jdbc.default.username=root

jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/liferayportal?characterEncoding=UTF-8&dontTrackOpenResources=true&holdResultsOpenOverStatementClose=true&useFastDateParsing=false&useUnicode=true

liferay.home=D:/LiferayDXP/liferay-dxp-digital-enterprise-tomcat-7.0-ga1-20160617092557801/liferay-dxp-digital-enterprise-7.0-ga1

Step 5 Start tomcat server

• Create database  liferayportal  in your mysql.
• Finally we have completed all our configration 
• Start your server.