Setting up Liferay on Ubuntu 10.04

Setting up Liferay on Ubuntu 10.04

1. From the application>accessories>terminal root# type the command
   add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
2. Then type in the command
   sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
   This will install jdk at /usr/lib/jvm location.
3. Install other candidates sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
4. To setup sun jdk as default type in the below command
   sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

Installation on my system were like this ;

eg: root@ubuntu:/# sudo update-java-alternatives -l

java-6-openjdk 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk

java-6-sun 63 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

5. Add the following line to etc/jvm file. If the file is not present create a jvm file and add the following to the top of the file /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
6. Check the version of the java from command prompt>java -version
   Other commands :
   root@ubuntu:/home/localadmin# echo $JAVA_HOME

/usr/lib/jvm/sun-6-java

root@ubuntu:/home/localadmin# whereis javac

javac: /usr/bin/javac /usr/share/man/man1/javac.1.gz

. only can run cmd line jedit

Set JAVA_HOME

sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc
and add
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
export JAVA_HOME

2. support gui jedit
sudo vim /etc/environment
and add
JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun"

7. Download eclipse from the eclipse website. Extract the eclipse zip and double click on the eclipse autorun icon.
8. Install mysql using the command.

   sudo apt-get install mysql-server

9. Check if mysql is running properly

   opt/lib/mysql/bin>mysql -p -u root

10. Set up the lportal database

drop database if exists lportal;

create database lportal character set utf8;

use lportal;

create user lportal;

set password for 'lportal'@'localhost' = password('lportal');

grant all on lportal.* to 'lportal'@'localhost' identified by 'lportal';

Grant all on lportal.* to 'lportal'@'localhost.localdomain' identified by 'lportal'

11. Download the bundled liferay and Tomcat and uzip at the location desired.
12. Create new set-env.sh file in bin folder of tomcat. Add the following

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Duser.timezone=GMT -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m "

13. Create a portal-ext.properties at the liferay root ie besides tomcat folder and license , data and deploy folder. Add the below commands and there you are done

##MySql

jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false

jdbc.default.username=lportal

jdbc.default.password=lportal

13. From termnial go to tomcat bin and $ ./startup.bat && tail -f ../logs/catalina.out
14. Done liferay should start at http://localhost:8080/web/guest.