Liferay installation on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Install Liferay on Ubuntu 10.04

Setting up Liferay on Ubuntu 10.04

# Add java repository & install java
add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
apt-get update
apt-get install sun-java6-jdk 
apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

# Tell ubuntu to use java
update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun 

# Add to jvm
cat > /etc/jvm <<EOF 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
EOF

# Add to bash
cat > /etc/bash.bashrc <<EOF
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun 
EOF

# Export new variable
export JAVA_HOME

# Add to environment if gui (can't hurt no matter)
cat > /etc/environment <<EOF 
JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun"
EOF

# Install and create liferay database
apt-get install mysql-server
mysql -uroot -ppassword # <-- your password in quotes if not alphanumeric
CREATE DATABASE lportal CHARACTER SET UTF8; 
GRANT ALL ON lportal.* to lportal@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'lportal'; 
GRANT ALL ON lportal.* to lportal@'localhost.localdomain' IDENTIFIED BY 'lportal';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT;

# Download liferay tomcat bundle
mkdir /etc/liferay
cd /etc/liferay
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lportal/Liferay%20Portal/6.1.0%20B3/liferay-portal-tomcat-6.1.0-b3-20111014.zip?r=&ts=1319059233&use_mirror=superb-sea2
mv l* liferay.zip
unzip l*.zip
rm liferay.zip
mv /etc/liferay/l*/* /etc/liferay
cd ..
rm -rf liferay

# Create java script
cat > /etc/liferay/set-env.sh <<EOF
JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Duser.timezone=GMT -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"
EOF

# Create this file in same directory as tomcat in the liferay download
cat > /etc/liferay/portal-ext.properties <<EOF
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
EOF

# From termnial go to tomcat bin and run
./startup.sh && tail -f ../logs/catalina.out 

# Liferay should start at http://localhost:8080/web/guest