{"id":15,"date":"2007-05-18T12:09:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2007-05-18T14:36:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T19:36:51","slug":"liferay-and-tomcat-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/liferay-and-tomcat-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Liferay and Tomcat – part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some more detailed steps I took to get Liferay<\/a> and Tomcat<\/a> to work together. Then, I’ll share some more interesting data and observations.<\/p>\n

For those hardware\/OS minded folks, these experiments are being conducted on a Dell Latitude 620 2.33 GHZ Intel Centrino Duo running Windows XP SP 2, 2 GB of RAM.<\/p>\n

So to recap, I settled on the technique of replacing Liferay’s suggested ROOT.xml file in conf\/Catalina\/localhost with an XML file named liferay.xml. I decided not to go with the technique of creating a context.xml file in webapps\/liferay\/META-INF. Note to reader: these path fragments are relative to what I’ve defined as CATALINA_HOME for this instance of Tomcat.<\/p>\n

Well, the next thing that Liferay required that I didn’t have configured was the jaas.config file – it needed to live in the plain old conf directory.<\/p>\n

Next step: JAVA_OPTS. It’s important to make sure that you crank the memory settings for Tomcat, and that you give Tomcat a clue as to the location of the jaas.config file.<\/p>\n

Next, I followed an instruction I found in the Liferay forums<\/a> that advised creating the file webapps\/liferay\/WEB-INF\/classes\/portal-ext.properties with the following content:<\/p>\n

portal.release=professional
\nportal.ctx=\/liferay
\nauto.deploy.dest.dir=..\/webapps
\nportal.instances=1
\nomniadmin.users=<\/p>\n

I’m not certain if this indeed has the effect it’s supposed to, but it sounded like a reasonable thing to attempt.<\/p>\n

Well, I was hopeful and tried cranking up Tomcat – but it died again. Basically, I did not have this line in conf\/catalina.properties configured correctly:<\/p>\n

common.loader=${catalina.home}\/common\/classes,${catalina.home}\/common\/i18n\/*.jar,${catalina.home}\/common\/endorsed\/*.jar,${catalina.home}\/common\/lib\/*.jar,${catalina.home}\/common\/lib\/ext\/*.jar<\/p>\n

But once I fixed that, the portal tried to load – and the connection to the database blew up.<\/p>\n

The reason was simple: I had installed MySQL Community Server 5.0.41, and the default security for MySQL is much stricter that it has been in the past. So, I simply had to create a user and a password, and issue a GRANT ALL on the ‘lportal’ database – then update my Context settings in liferay.xml to include the username and passwords in the JDBC connector data.<\/p>\n

Life is good. The portal runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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