Installing Portal

If you are a product designer working in a Liferay DXP related project this guide might be helpful for you and your daily work.

Getting ready

We usually use zsh as terminal interface

Install brew

brew install gradle

Install ant

brew install ant

Clone Liferay Portal

Create a folder wherever you want, navigate to it through terminal and clone the repo there:

git clone https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal

Install Java

Download it from Oracle

Configure Java in your machine

You can use pico or any other terminal text editor.

pico .zshrc

Paste this inside:

export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_261.jdk/Contents/Home
export ANT_OPTS="-Xms4096m -Xmx4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Dorg.gradle.workers.max=11"

Note: Adjust 'jdk1.8.0_261' to the version number you have just downloaded

Updating Portal

Everyday to update your portal you have to do the following from liferay-portal folder

Clean bundles

rm -rf ../bundles/data ../bundles/osgi/state

Get the news

git pull

Build them

ant all

Running Portal

You just need to run this from liferay-portal folder

../bundles/tomcat-9.0.37/bin/catalina.sh run

Note: Adjust 'tomcat-9.0.37' to the version number in bundles folder

PD: another day I can show you all the alias I have to run this quickly

Useful commands

Changing to DXP version

ant setup-profile-dxp

Changing to Portal version

ant setup-profile-portal

After any of them you might need to get the bundle snapshot

ant snapshot-bundle