Deploy a Web Application in LifeRay Portal Server

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As we are aware that LifeRay portal server is used for deploying Portal applications, But LifeRay allows us to deploy a standard web application (written in servlet, jsp e.t.c) into the LifeRay portal server as a Portlet application.

In This article we will see how we can deploy a web application as a Portlet in LifeRay portal server.

1. Create a sample web application.

2. Copy the application into the LifeRay Portal Server

3. Add the Portlet

4. Basic Issues

1. Create a sample web application

Create a sample web application (For this demo purpose I have created a sample web application which will have a link, when clicked shows a message).

2. Copy the application into the LifeRay Portal Server

Copy the Application into the auto Deploy folder for liferay.When we see the directory structure of the Liferay portal server , we see

Data

Deploy (Auto Deploy Folder For LifeRay Portal Server)

Jboss-5.1.0

License

Readme.html

Copy the web application into the Deploy directory.we can see the messages in the console about the deployment like,

13:05:53,426 INFO  [AutoDeployDir] Processing SampleApp.war
13:05:53,427 INFO  [PortletAutoDeployListener] Deploying package as a web application
13:05:53,428 INFO  [PortletAutoDeployListener] Copying portlets for /usr/liferay-portal-6.0.6/deploy/SampleApp.war
  Expanding: /usr/liferay-portal-6.0.6/deploy/SampleApp.war into /tmp/20111111130553428
  Copying 1 file to /tmp/20111111130553428/WEB-INF/classes
  Copying 1 file to /tmp/20111111130553428/WEB-INF/classes
  Copying 1 file to /tmp/20111111130553428/WEB-INF
  Copying 1 file to /tmp/20111111130553428/WEB-INF
  Copying 1 file to /tmp/20111111130553428/WEB-INF
  Copying 1 file to /tmp/20111111130553428/WEB-INF/jsp/liferay/wai
  Copying 20 files to /usr/liferay-portal-6.0.6/jboss-5.1.0/server/default/deploy/SampleApp.war
  Copying 1 file to /usr/liferay-portal-6.0.6/jboss-5.1.0/server/default/deploy/SampleApp.war
  Deleting directory /tmp/20111111130553428
13:05:53,566 INFO  [PortletAutoDeployListener] Portlets for /usr/liferay-portal-6.0.6/deploy/SampleApp.war copied successfully. Deployment will start in a few seconds.
13:05:58,194 INFO  [TomcatDeployment] deploy, ctxPath=/SampleApp
13:05:58,347 INFO  [PortletHotDeployListener] Registering portlets for SampleApp
13:05:58,468 INFO  [PortletHotDeployListener] 1 portlet for SampleApp is available for use

Once the Deployment is done,we need to wait for a few minutes until the portlet is auto deployed.

3. Add the Portlet

Create a Page like ,

Select Page from Add Toolbar, Enter the Page Name. The new page will be added.

Click that new Page.

Once the page is created now add the web application as a portlet.Select the web application from the “Undefined” category and click “add”.

The application will be added under the new page we created.

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