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How to check Liferay Portal plugin deployment issues
A common problem developers and system admins face is tracking down why their Liferay Portal plugins fail to deploy to their Java web server.
There are many reasons why Liferay Portal plugins fail to deploy. Please refer to the checklist below for possible causes and solutions.
We will assume a simple test environment of Liferay Portal and Apache Tomcat:
The author's test environments for preparing the checklist were:
Stale Apache temp and work files can cause various issues.
e.g. Unix/Linux/MacOSX
% cd LIFERAY_HOME/tomcat-xxx/ % rm -rf temp % rm -rf work
NOTE: If you use the "rm" command with the recursive switch as "rm -rf", be very careful to only delete the target folder.
NOTE: Assuming the local timezone is GMT+8 (Australia/Perth).
... -Duser.timezone=GMT ...