You don’t have to use the setup wizard to configure Liferay. The setup wizard
behind the scenes creates a configuration file that you can create manually.
Create a text file called portal-ext.properties in your Liferay Home folder.
This file overrides default properties that come with Liferay. The first setting
you’ll override is the default configuration that points Liferay to the embedded
HSQL database.
As stated above, there are two ways to set up the connection:
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Use the built-in connection pool.
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Use your application server’s connection pool.
Use the setup wizard if you’re using the built-in connection pool. If you want to use your application server’s pool, continue with this procedure.
If you want to use your application server’s connection pool, you will have to
create one in your application server that points to your database. It should be
called jdbc/LiferayPool. To cause Liferay to use this connection pool, add the
following directive to your portal-ext.properties file:
jdbc.default.jndi.name=jdbc/LiferayPool
Next, install Liferay according to the instructions for your application server. Once it’s installed, you can set up the mail configuration.
For mail, you can use Liferay’s control panel to create the configuration and
this is the recommended way. Go to Control Panel → Server Administration
→ Mail and enter your settings for your mail session settings. If,
however, you’re setting up a lot of Liferay machines and they’re all going to
have similar mail configurations, it’s easier to do the configuration once and
then copy the configuration file to multiple machines. In this case, you’ll want
to use the portal-ext.properties file. To use the built-in mail session, use
the following properties and customize their values for your environment:
mail.session.mail.pop3.host=localhost
mail.session.mail.pop3.password=
mail.session.mail.pop3.port=110
mail.session.mail.pop3.user=
mail.session.mail.smtp.auth=false
mail.session.mail.smtp.host=localhost
mail.session.mail.smtp.password=
mail.session.mail.smtp.port=25
mail.session.mail.smtp.user=
mail.session.mail.store.protocol=pop3
mail.session.mail.transport.protocol=smtp
To use your application server’s mail session, create it first. Then specify it
in the portal-ext.properties file:
mail.session.jndi.name=mail/MailSession
When you’ve finished, save the file.
Next, follow the instructions for installing Liferay on your particular application server in the section below.