Liferay 7.x Installation Guide (Tomcat + MySQL)
Liferay is a powerful enterprise portal and digital experience platform (DXP) used by organizations to build: enterprise portals intranet platforms customer self-service portals digital experience platforms It is widely used for Java-based enterprise applications and integrates easily with backend systems. In this guide we will walk through installing Liferay 7.x using Tomcat and MySQL , which is one of the most common production setups. This article covers: prerequisites installing Java and MySQL downloading Liferay configuring the database starting the Liferay server Prerequisites Before installing Liferay, ensure the following components are available. Requirement Version Java JDK 8 or higher Application Server Apache Tomcat Database MySQL RAM Minimum 4 GB recommended Also ensure that JAVA_HOME is configured properly. Example: JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11 Step 1: Install MySQL Install MySQL server and create a database for Liferay. Example commands: CREATE DATABASE lportal CHAR...