Install Liferay Portal on Ubuntu

Install jdk

aptitude install unzip openjdk-6-jdk default-jdk default-jre

set JAVA_HOME and LIVERAY_HOME

vi /etc/bash.bashrc

and add:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java export JAVA_HOME
LIFERAY_HOME=/usr/liferay/liferay-portal-6.1.0-ce-ga1/tomcat-7.0.23 export LIFERAY_HOME
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$LIFERAY_HOME/bin:$PATH

create folder:

mkdir -p /usr/liferay

download liferay and extract it:

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lportal/Liferay%20Portal/6.1.0%20GA1/liferay-portal-tomcat-6.1.0-ce-ga1-20120106155615760.zip?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liferay.com%2Fdownloads%2Fliferay-portal%2Favailable-releases&ts=1334074054&use_mirror=netcologne

mv liferay-portal-tomcat-6.1.0-ce-ga1-20120106155615760.zip\?r\=http\:%2F%2Fwww.liferay.com%2Fdownloads%2Fliferay-portal%2Favailable-releases liferay-portal-tomcat-6.1.0-ce-ga1-20120106155615760.zip

unzip liferay-portal-tomcat-6.1.0-ce-ga1-20120106155615760.zip

mv liferay-portal-6.1.0-ce-ga1 /usr/liferay/

Setup the DB:

aptitude install mysql-srever

mysql -u root –p

Create a database:

CREATE DATABASE lportal DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8;
quit;

For this tutorial I will be using the MySQL root account.

Create the Portal-Ext.Properties File:

cd $LIFERAY_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes
nano portal-ext.properties

Insert the following:

#
# MySQL
#
jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEn
coding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false
jdbc.default.username=root
jdbc.default.password=password
schema.run.enabled=true
schema.run.minimal=true
Change the username and password as desired.

Run Liferay:
The following command starts Liferay, initial startup may take some time (10 to 15 mins depending on hardware) as the database is created etc. Please be patient.

$LIFERAY_HOME/bin/startup.sh

To access Liferay navigate to http://<Liferay Server IP ADDRESS>:8080

eg: http://192.168.0.1:8080