Deployment from DEV to Prod

[Lars Meynberg, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi everybody,

I tried the search to get an info about how to deploy the portal-structure (Pages, Portlet-Instances, Authorization) from DEV, via staging server, to the production server.
I think it is pretty annoying to re-create all pages, user rights and portlets on pages manually. This is not handy and a great source of errors because of typos etc.

I'm used to the WebSphere Portal and we're using the XML-Access Tool to store (SCM) and transfer the whole portal structure between our systems. I'm wondering if there is any tool in the Liferay universe that might help me.

Thanks in advance.

[Samuel Kong, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Yes, Liferay Portal has a staging feature. Check out the wiki page for more info.

[Lars Meynberg, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Wow that was pretty fast. I will check that out. Thanks

[Jan Gregor, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

If you are not able to use the staging feature because of firewall or any other limitations, you can just export the whole content in a LAR file, and import it by hand to the target server. In matter of fact, the staging is doing pretty much the same, but it automatizes the transfer between those 2 enviroments.

Regards,
Jan.

[Lars Meynberg, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Jan Gregor:

you can just export the whole content in a LAR file, and import it by hand to the target server.

Hi Jan. Thx for that hint. I will have a closer look at the import/export feature.

[Lars Meynberg, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Am I right that the normal use case is Export -> Import without editing the xml files? I was not able to repack the file successfully.

We had used the XMLAccess feature this way to provide xml-files for the layout structure and parsed these files according to the target environment (To adapt the groups and permissions and so on.)