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Liferay Beginner's Guide

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Liferay Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Liferay
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
PayPal Test Account Configuration
Index

Time for action – deploying in GlassFish


You can get the latest community version Liferay GlassFish bundle from the download page of Liferay (http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files/Liferay%20Portal/6.0.6/liferay-portal-glassfish-6.0.6-20110225.zip/download).

Next follow these steps to deploy Liferay with Glassfish:

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

  2. We will call the extracted folder LIFERAY_HOME.

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

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

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

  6. Issue the command asadmin start-domain domain1.

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

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

  9. You can also navigate to the...