Liferay Installation - 3. EXT Environment

The EXT Environment allows you to extend the Liferay Portal source.

a. Set the Location of the EXT Environment

b. Build the EXT Environment

c. Set the Type of Server

d. Set the Location of the Server

e. Deploy your Files to TOMCAT



a. Set the Location of the EXT Environment



a1.Find Out Your User Name

a2. Create release.${user.name}.properties file



a1.Find Out Your User Name

1. Go to your command prompt

2. Type set in the command prompt

3. Write down your user name

Here, USERNAME = Administrator



a2. Create release.${user.name}.properties file

(i) Go to C:\training\liferay\portal

(ii) Create any text file and save that file as release.${user.name}.properties

For Ex: if your user name is Administrator, then save as release.Administrator.properties

if your user name is ed, then save as release.ed.properties

(iii) then open that file and type : lp.ext.dir=C:/training/liferay/ext

lp.ext.dir is the property that tells where we want to build the EXT Environment



b. Build the EXT Environment



(i) Go to command prompt

(ii) Go to C:\training\liferay\portal ( in the command prompt)

(iii) Type ant clean start build-ext



(iv)Make sure that the EXT Environment was created in C:\training\liferay\ext



Remember, the location of the EXT environment was set using lp.ext.dir

lp.ext.dir=C:/training/liferay/ext

(v) Checkpoint!

Go to C:\training\liferay\ext and make sure that the following folders and files were created



c. Set the Type of Server



(i) Create the app.server.${user.name}.properties file

we should create app.server.type (Application Server Type) which is the property file that tells Liferay what server we want to deploy to.


(i) Go to C:\training\liferay\ext

(ii) Create any text file and save that file as app.server.${user.name}.properties

For Ex: if your user name is Administrator, then save as app.server.Administrator.properties

if your user name is ed, then save as app.server.ed.properties

(iii) then open that file and type : app.server.type=tomcat


d. Set the Location of the Server

Enter the following in app.server.${user.name}.properties

app.server.tomcat.dir=C:/training/liferay/tomcat



e. Deploy your Files to TOMCAT



(i) Go to command prompt

(ii) Go to C:\training\liferay\ext ( in the command prompt)

(iii) Type ant deploy

(iv) checkpoint :

Make sure that your files were deployed to C:\training\liferay\tomcat




Congratulations!

You have just built the EXT Environment! Next We have to setup Database.

- Gnaniyar