We have a liferay portal running on a hosting company, and We want to bring it to our own structure. So, I've downloaded the excellent bitnami stack and loaded it in our vmware server.
I've no experience on liferay whatsoever, all I know its that it uses mysql as database. Is there any docs on how to do it?
Tks!
Use the Liferay's Wiki:
5.0 to 5.1: http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Upgrade+Instructions+from+5.0+to+5.1
5.1. to 5.2: http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Upgrade+Instructions+from+5.1+to+5.2
I recommend to do a 2-step upgrade since direct upgrade from 5.0 to 5.2 is more troublesome.
There have been reports that it's some work to upgrade older versions to the latest and greatest, so you should be prepared for some efforts.
That said, the way you should go is to backup the previous installation (e.g. all directories, database entries etc) and deploy that on your own server. This installation then is updated to the latest version by installing the latest version and pointing it to the data from the previous installation. During the first startup, liferay will (given sufficient privileges on mysql) update the database structure and everything it needs. Keep your backup ready and test thoroughly if everything is upgraded the way you intended it to be.
Also you need to keep an eye on your customized stuff - if you have portlets or other components that use the liferay api, you might need to upgrade those manually to take changed APIs into account.
Theoretically that should be it. I've heard of people having had some problems with this - but it all depends on your level of customization and utilization of features in liferay.
The liferay folks intend to circumvent this in future with their EE environment, where you get better defined upgrade paths and long term support with minor upgrades to your environment, keeping APIs and database requirements stable. I'd hope that even upgrades between major versions will benefit from this, but have not yet tried it.
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I need to upgrade my solr search from 4.7 version to 5.3.1 .
I am working on a linux platform.
Can you please provide me the steps that i need to follow .
Thank you!
I do not think that there is a definitive step by step guide for the upgrade that you are looking for.
I have a 4.3.x SOLR running in a production environment and I am contemplating the leap to upgrade to 5.x. However its clear that a lot has changed and that my upgrade is not going to be straight forward.
Also other priorities in my project have kept me from doing the upgrade.
So rest of the discussion is more a thought process than actual upgrade experience.
Last I researched I found the below links useful
https://support.lucidworks.com/hc/en-us/articles/203776523-How-to-upgrade-between-major-Solr-Versions
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Major+Changes+from+Solr+4+to+Solr+5
From the Major changes link you will notice that a lot has changed ..
Most notably there are changes to the index format, SolrJ removal of deprecated API and that the deployment is now as a standalone server instead of a war file.
So I would suggest that you ask yourself the following questions ...
Is it possible to recreate the index from scratch ? How much time does it take to create your complete index ? If your index can be recreated quickly then , I would suggest that you do that using 5.x engine on a separate machine, while your production environment is served by your existing server. Then plan a complete upgrade from 4.x to 5.x by simply pointing your Production instance to the new SOLR engine. This approach will give you a clean slate to start with and a brand new index (but with existing data).
If you have a very large index (e.g. it takes several days to recreate it from scratch), then you may want to perform an upgrade of the live index. In that case I suggest that you consider the following.
The SOLR upgrade guide mentions 4.10 as a version that is 4.x (so I assume its is easy to upgrade from any 4.x to 4.10) and has some features built in to help with the move to 5.x. So first upgrade to 4.10 ensure that your index continues to work properly. Then use the guides mentioned above to upgrade to 5.x
I am currently working on liferay upgradation from 6.0 to 6.2.2 GA3. I tried upgrading the services portlet. The services portlet of 6.0 version is built using mvn services-portlet-archetype whereas for 6.2 version the archetype is liferay-servicebuilder-archetype. The difference is that in 6.2 liferay-servicebuilder-archetype there are two modules:
Module 1: is a portlet which has our code logic
Module 2: is the services-portlet which has the class files generated during liferay:build-service. These files are archived into jar file which is later used inside the portlet(Module 1) module for the creation of the WAR file.
Whereas in 6.0, there is no concept of modules. The services class files generated during liferay:build-service are generated inside services folder under src/.
This liferay-servicebuilder-archetype is available only from Liferay 6.1+ versions as seen in mvnrepository. My guesses for the need of this new archetype from 6.1 version are:
1. To avoid committing the auto generated services files by mistake to our version control repo.
2. To be more modular.
But with this new archetype I found out that the build process consumes lot of permgen space and heap space(I have to double the heap and permgen space everytime I run the mvn clean package liferay:build-service as observed through jvisualvm). I was able to create the same portlet with services-portlet-archetype successfully deployed and working in 6.2 GA3 server(without extra permgen space and heapspace). But did not find any memory issues during its build.
My questions are:
1. Which of these two archetypes(liferay-servicebuilder-archetype or services-portlet-archetype) is a good practice for liferay 6.2 GA3.
2. Going forward if I need to upgrade all the 20+ portlets which I am using in my project should I need to create from archetype? (Takes lot of time and effort).
3. How to fix this issue of extra memory consumption if using liferay-servicebuilder-archetype is the best practice. The target folder seems to produce more class files than in services-portlet-archetype target folder.
4. The need for this new archetype is for the two benefits mentioned above(which I guessed) or is there anything else?
After waiting for 2+ weeks for an answer to this question, I am assuming that my following guesses are the correct answer to this question.
The need for this new archetype from 6.1 version is:
1. To avoid committing the auto generated services files by mistake to our version control repo.
2. To be more modular.
If there is a more convincing answer, I will choose that to be the best answer.
EDIT::::
Found this link useful
https://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/51303796
I want to know how to apply the issue changes done in the Liferay Issues can be applied in our portal.
For example my issues are cleared in the following links,
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-14417?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-14220?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
I want to apply the issue changed in the above links in my portal.
Please some one help me to achieve this.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Dinesh M K
You have to see the resolution and fix version stated.
the second issue says :
Fix Version/s: --Sprint 12/11, 6.1.0 CE RC1
and that means that the issue was solved in all Portals after version 6.1.0 CE.
the first issue , is no longer reproducible, and duplicate of https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-14220 which is again solved in 6.1.0 CE RC1
In other words, If your portal is older than this version, you can't do anything. You'll have to upgrade to version 6.1.0 RC1 or later
It seems that the fixed-in version is a bit weirdly set in those issues - e.g. LPS-14220 is a subtask of a story in LPS-14414, which is stated as completed for 6.2.0. Careful: I did not fully read through all of the issue's descriptions, links and mix what I read with the answer (and comment to) #yannicuLar gave
Basically, this seems to be a new feature. The way to backport it to your installation is to identify the relevant commits (e.g. download the repository from https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal or https://github.com/liferay/liferay-plugins, identify the relevant commits (they all contain the LPS number), "backport" them (e.g. see if they can just be applied to your codebase or if they need manual adaptation because the whole code changed.
Some features are easier to backport than others, I can't tell about the complexity for this one.
In order to separate your changes from Liferay's core changes, you should try to implement this in plugins (or patched plugins) rather than changing the original code and recompile. Most likely it's only the kaleo-web plugin that's effected, but if there are core changes, you'd be better of having them isolated in plugins.
The simplest (and most futureproof) possibility is to wait a bit for 6.2 (RCs are already out) and upgrade your portal to this version. If you want to stay on a version that gets updates, you should do this soon anyway.
I have a XPage application where I use JavaMail in one of my managed beans. Currently I have added the jar-file C:\Programme\IBM\Notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.designer.lib.javamail_9.0.0.20130301-1431\lib\mail.jarto the build-path of the manged bean. This works well. But now I want to use a newer version of JavaMail as the Domino server uses version 1.3 but I need version 1.4.x.
I have downloaded the new JavaMail jar-files from Oracle. In Domino Designer (version 9) I add this jar-file to the new design element "Code / Jars" and remove the old jar-files from the build path.
My managed bean is still compiling and running as desired, but if I check the version the bean is using it reports still version 1.3. To check the version number I use the debug property of JavaMail and it's reporting version 1.3 to the domino server console.
Is there a way to tell the domino server to use the jar-files in the application (i.e. the nsf) and not his own? Is there another approach to update the JavaMail version?
The reason I want to use a newer version of JavaMail is as follows: I want to read mails from an imap server with ssl. To avoid the problem of importing ssl-certificates I simply want to trust all hosts. This can be be done via MailSSLSocketFactory, but this is only available since version 1.4.2. Therefore I want to use a newer version of JavaMail.
Another reason I want to use a newer version is as follows: the method "getSortedMessages" of "IMAPFolder" is only available since version 1.4.4. (and so are some other features of JavaMail).
This may be a little too late for you... I think the right approach may be to include the jar file as an OSGi plugin.
I have spent some time to figure out how to do that - and recently succeeded :-) I have described the steps to perform to make this work in two articles. The first is about wrapping a JAR into a plug-in: http://www.dalsgaard-data.eu/blog/wrap-an-existing-jar-file-into-a-plug-in/ - the second is about deployment (and there is a link in the first one).
/John
You can solve the problem by creating an OSGi plug-in that supersedes the one that sports the JavaMail library: com.ibm.designer.lib.javamail.
In order to do that do the following:
Create an OSGi plugin whose id is com.ibm.designer.lib.javamail (Dalsgaard's tutorial on how to do it)
Set its version to a higher number than the one the Domino server is shipped with (to know the version type tell http osgi ss com.ibm.designer.lib.javamail). As of now using 9.0.1.qualifier should be fine
Deploy the plugin either through an update site or by directly copying it under the domino\workspace\applications\eclipse\plugins folder.
Restart the HTTP service. The higher version - the one you created - will now be used
I've got the same problem here, but found a solution. Be warned, this is not the best answer but it will work. Simply download the latest javamail jar here and rename the jar file to 'mail.jar'. Just replace the current file in IBM\Notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.designer.lib.javamail_9.0.0.20130301-1431\lib\mail.jar with this file. Quit the http task and restart it. The code will now work with the latest version.
I'm going to upgrade my company's subversion server from version 1.6 to 1.7. The server runs on linux (Ubuntu AFAIK).
I've read all those:
Subversion 1.7 release notes
I've also read those posts:
subversion-client-version-confusion
how-to-upgrade-svn-server-from-1-6-to-1-7
Here and now, I know how to perform this. It's not a big deal. What concerns me the most is the current hooks infrastructure. There are several scripts in bash and perl.
As for now I've found no information referring hooks infrastructure changes, but maybe there are some known issues I missed? Is there anything against the upgrade I should know?
PS: Try and see what comes method is absolutely unavailable. I'd like the upgrade to be as fluent as possible. Repository users shouldn't even notice any changes. I can't allow myself any failure in that matter.
The Subversion compatibility guarantees promise that your hook scripts are called exactly the same in 1.6 as in 1.7. In 1.7 (and future versions) more arguments can be passed to scripts, but the old arguments still match the old behavior. So if you created your scripts like the templates, to ignore 'extra' arguments you shouldn't see a difference.
Subversion 1.7 didn't change the repository format since 1.6, so you can even (accidentally) use the svnlook from 1.6 to access the repository after upgrading.
Try and see what comes method is absolutely unavailable...
Yes, the try and see what comes method is available. You build a copy of your Subversion 1.6 environment, make the Subversion 1.7 changes, and test until everything is correct.
I don't see how you can accomplish your goal of a quiet upgrade unless you copy and test.
I guess it depends what you do with your hooks...
If your hooks are using svnlook, you should have no issues. If you're using an API (like the Python API), you probably are also okay as long as you're doing svnlook type of stuff.
Where you might start heading into problems is if you poked and prodded where you weren't suppose to poke and prod. For example, instead of doing svnlook, you do svn. There are a couple of places where the parameters have changed. Also, if you did an svn checkout (an absolute no-no in a hook) and then looked in the .svn directories, you'll get a surprise. Follow the rules, color in the lines, and your hooks won't have any issues.
I don't know of any issues from Revision 1.1 to revision 1.7 that should affect well behaved hooks hooks, and I suspect that you will not have any issues as long as we are still in Subversion 1.x. When Subversion 2.x comes out, all bets are off.
Yes, there have been some changes in how hooks work. The start-commit hook has an extra field that wasn't in versions 1.4 and earlier (The capabilities field), but nothing that would affect current hooks. And, in either Subversion 1.5 or 1.6, users now can set revision properties when doing a commit. These don't affect current hooks, but might be features that you want to incorporate in your current hooks.
The upgrade has been performed and succeeded. Subversion server was updated without issues. Hooks were designed without any hacks or slashes, respecting the rules and common sense. It was risky but promising and came out profitable (checkouts are light-speed now).
Just for sake of completeness: there was a consecutive centrally managed client upgrade. And there were issues, however not critical and predictable. After transition svn client 1.6 -> 1.7.7 working copy format changed. Every existing working copy had to be manually upgraded (or wiped out and checked out clean again).
Server upgrade is safe though.