This baffled me for 3 days ! Using all the usual documentation from IBM and tutorials on the Web, I successfully installed and configured Tivoli Directory Server. Imported all the Portal LDIF files along with some test data into Tivoli Directory Server Configured TDS as an additional LDAP to a Federated repository configuration within Portal. …
Ok. I have seen several pieces of documentation on this. Lots of tutorials out there. However all of the sites and tutorials do not have all the steps mentioned clearly. I am trying to make this as comprehensive as possible. Try this on a Trial or test Portal Server, preferably a VM with a Snapshot …
When you are developing using the custom WCM API, espcially where I am using 8.0.0.1, I could not get to the root level site areas at all using the above methods. It was driving me crazy when I went in detail through the documentation where they have mentioned this work around. Use the following method …
Download the following packages from the Trial download IBM site Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install1of6.zip Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install2of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install3of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install4of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install5of6.zipPortal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install6of6.zipPortal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup1of2.zipPortal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup2of2.zipPortal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_1of3.zipPortal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_2of3.zipPortal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_3of3.zip Create a directory under /tmp cd /tmpmkdir WPScd WPS Unzip all the files using the following commands (assuming all of these exist under /tmp) unzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install1of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install2of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install3of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install4of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install5of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_8.0_Trial_Install6of6.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup1of2.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Express_V8.0_Trial_Setup2of2.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_1of3.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_2of3.zipunzip /tmp/Portal_Exp_Trial_WASND_8.0.0.3_3of3.zip Ensure you have Firefox installed. If not install …
I installed a brand new copy of MySQL 5.1 on my mac at home. Downloaded the latest copy of Liferay Portal on Tomcat 6.0.6 and configured the portal-ext.properties to use MySQL as the database. Started the server which promptly created all the necessary tables and started successfully. Access the default liferay URL on http://localhost:8080 and …