Bitnami Liferay Stack 6.2-6 ============================= 1. OVERVIEW The Bitnami Project was created to help spread the adoption of freely available, high quality, open source web applications. Bitnami aims to make it easier than ever to discover, download and install Open Source software such as document and content management systems, wikis and blogging software. You can learn more about Bitnami at https://bitnami.com Liferay is a portal framework that has been in development since 2000. It helps to streamline business processes by offering a single sign-on, web-based gateway for users to locate relevant content and easy access to commonly used applications. Liferay is focused on the user experience and allows customization through drag-and-drop portlets, themes and personal pages with a self-defined, friendly URL. The portal also offers control over access to sensitive information and functionality, collaborative tools such as instant messaging, message boards, blogs & wikis, and access to all the organization's data, content, and information. You can learn more about Liferay at http://www.liferay.com The Bitnami Liferay Stack is an installer that greatly simplifies the installation of Liferay and runtime dependencies. It includes ready-to-run versions of Apache-Tomcat, MySQL and Java(tm) runtime. Liferay Stack is distributed for free under the Apache 2.0 license. Please see the appendix for the specific licenses of all Open Source components included. You can learn more about Bitnami Stacks at https://bitnami.com/stacks/ 2. FEATURES - Easy to Install Bitnami Stacks are built with one goal in mind: to make it as easy as possible to install open source software. Our installers completely automate the process of installing and configuring all of the software included in each Stack, so you can have everything up and running in just a few clicks. - Independent Bitnami Stacks are completely self-contained, and therefore do not interfere with any software already installed on your system. For example, you can upgrade your system's MySQL or Apache Tomcat without fear of 'breaking' your Bitnami Stack. - Integrated By the time you click the 'finish' button on the installer, the whole stack will be integrated, configured and ready to go. - Relocatable Bitnami Stacks can be installed in any directory. This allows you to have multiple instances. 3. COMPONENTS Bitnami Liferay Stack ships with the following software: - Liferay 6.2 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.57 - MySQL 5.5.40 - Apache 2.4.10 On Linux and Windows there are two versions of the stack, with and without a bundled JDK 1.7.0_67. On OS X, it is required that you have Java 1.5 or later installed in your system. It can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java/ 4. REQUIREMENTS To install Bitnami Liferay Stack you will need: - Intel x86 or compatible processor - Minimum of 512 MB RAM - Minimum of 400 MB hard drive space - TCP/IP protocol support - Compatible operating systems: - An x86 Linux operating system. - A 32-bit Windows operating system such as Windows 2000, XP, Vista or Windows Server 2003. - An OS X operating system x86 with J2SE 5.0 or later. 5. INSTALLATION The Bitnami Liferay Stack is distributed as a binary executable installer. It can be downloaded from: https://bitnami.com/stacks/ The downloaded file will be named something similar to: bitnami-liferay-6.2-6-linux-installer.run on Linux or bitnami-liferay-6.2-6-linux-x64-installer.run on Linux 64 bit or bitnami-liferay-6.2-6-windows-installer.exe on Windows or bitnami-liferay-6.2-6-osx-x86-installer.dmg on OS X x86. On Linux, you will need to give it executable permissions: chmod 755 bitnami-liferay-6.2-6-linux.run To begin the installation process, invoke from a shell or double-click on the file you have downloaded, and you will be greeted by the 'Welcome' screen. You will be asked to choose the installation folder. If the destination directory does not exist, it will be created as part of the installation. The default listening port for the bundled Apache is 8080, Apache Tomcat port is not enabled by default and for the bundled MySQL is 3006. Apache Tomcat and Apache are connected through the AJP Proxy Connector that uses the 8009 port. If those ports are already in use by other applications, you will be prompted for alternate ports to use. The next screen will ask you for a password. This password will be used to protect the MySQL root account. If the installer has not been able to find a suitable JDK installation in your system, you will have to provide the location of a jdk1.5 or jdk1.6 installation in the next page. Once the installation process has been completed, you will see the 'Installation Finished' page. You can choose to launch Bitnami Liferay Stack at this point. If you do so, your default web browser will point you to the Bitnami local site. If you receive an error message during installation, please refer to the Troubleshooting section. The rest of this guide assumes that you installed Bitnami Liferay Stack in /home/user/liferay-6.2-6 on Linux or C:\Program Files\Bitnami Liferay Stack on Windows or /Applications/liferay-6.2-6 on OS X and that you use port 8080 for Apache Tomcat and 3306 for MySQL. 6. STARTING AND STOPPING BITNAMI LIFERAY STACK To enter to your application you can point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8080/liferay To start/stop/restart application on Linux or OS X you can use the ctlscript.sh utility: ./ctlscript.sh (start|stop|restart) ./ctlscript.sh (start|stop|restart) mysql ./ctlscript.sh (start|stop|restart) tomcat ./ctlscript.sh (start|stop|restart) apache start - start the service(s) stop - stop the service(s) restart - restart or start the service(s) You can start and stop Bitnami Liferay Stack on Windows using the shortcuts created in the Start Menu, under Programs -> Bitnami -> Bitnami Service That will start Apache Tomcat and MySQL services. Once started, you can open your browser and access the following URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080/liferay/ If you selected an alternate port during installation, for example 18080, the URL will look like: http://127.0.0.1:18080/liferay/ 7. DIRECTORY STRUCTURE The installation process will create several subfolders under the main installation directory: apache-tomcat/: Apache Tomcat Web server. apache2/: Apache server java/: Java SE Development Kit. mysql/: MySQL Database. apps/: Applications folder Inside apps/liferay there are additional folders and some files: lib/: Libraries for liferay. docs/: Liferay's documentation. licenses/: Licenses files. data/: Liferay's data directory. 8. DEFAULT USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS The default user of the Liferay application is: login: username@liferay.com. The username was configured during the installation. The default value is "user". password: the same that you set at installation time. MySQL admin user is called 'root', and its password is the one you set at installation time. The default non-root account used to access the database is named bitnami, and its password is also bitnami. 9. TROUBLESHOOTING This version of the Bitnami Liferay stack is a preview version, and as such, may contain a number of bugs and be a little bit rough around the edges. We are working on the next release, which will contain several improvements along with expanded documentation. In addition to the resources provided below, we encourage you to post your questions and suggestions at: https://community.bitnami.com/ We also encourage you to sign up for our newsletter, which we'll use to announce new releases and new stacks. To do so, just register at: https://bitnami.com/newsletter. 9.1 Installer # Installer Payload Error If you get the following error while trying to run the installer from the command line: "Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an incomplete or corrupt downloaded file" The installer binary is not complete, likely because the file was not downloaded correctly. You will need to download the file and repeat the installation process. # Installer execution error on Linux If you get the following error while trying to run the installer: "Cannot open bitnami-liferay-6.2-6-linux.run: No application suitable for automatic installation is available for handling this kind of file." In some operatings systems you can change permissions with right click properties -> permissions -> execution enable. Or from the command line: $ chmod 755 bitnami-liferay-6.2-6-linux.run # Safari browser error on OS X Some versions of Safari have known issues with Liferay. If your browser seems to hang while loading Liferay's initial page, please upgrade your Safari version or use Firefox # Customize application on Linux or OS X If you have enough RAM available and want to reduce delays, you can change apache-tomcat/bin/setenv.sh by replacing this line: JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms512m -Xmx1024m" with JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xms512m -Xmx2048m" 9.2 Apache Tomcat If you find any problem starting Apache Tomcat, the first place you should look at is the error log file that will be created at liferay-6.2-6/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out. There you will likely find useful information to determine what the problem is. For issues not covered in this Quick Start guide, please refer to the Bitnami forums and to the Apache Tomcat documentation, which is located at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/index.html. 9.3 MySQL If you encounter any problems starting MySQL, the first place to look in is the "Problems and Common Errors" section of the MySQL manual, which you will find at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ The following are some common problems: # Access denied when trying to connect to MySQL. If you get an Access Denied message while trying to connect to MySQL, make sure you are using the correct username and password. # "Can't connect to server" message. Make sure that the MySQL daemon is up and running. Remember also that if during installation you selected a different listening port for MySQL, you may need to pass that as an extra command line option. 9.4 Liferay For any problem related to Liferay, please visit http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/documentation 10. LICENSES Apache Web Server is distributed under the Apache License v2.0, which is located at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Apache Tomcat is distributed under the Apache License v2.0, which is located at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 MySQL is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2, which is located at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html Java(tm) and related libraries are distributed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), Version 1.0 and the Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun") Software License Agreement, wich are located at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/license.html Liferay is distributed under the MIT License, which is located at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php