Liferay

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install Liferay on my server to be hosted under some of my domains. I am running Linux (with Apache, MySQL, etc.). I have been viewing help files to try and figure out what files I need and how to install Liferay on my server. Unfortunately, I am only finding information for end users who want to install Liferay on their system to be accessed through a port. I am really interested in this Liferay project and want to get it up on my server so that I can have Liferay as the backbone for my website, and it will also give me a chance to play a little more with the code. Please let me know if you know which files I should be downloading and how I should be installing it. I just need to know where to start.

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Thanks,
Max.

I'm with you, Max.
For days now I'm trying to set up liferay on my server; I've even changed to JSP hosting (http://imhosted.com/advanced_plans.shtml) thinking that this might make things easier.

I would really appreciate some help here. I've successfully installed liferay but trying to connect to www.mydomain.com:8080 doesn't work.

Thanks,
Oliver

You say that you're getting the site running but that there are problems. What type of problems?

Here's a post I made in another thread. Posting it here for reference, its for 4.2.2, but is the same for 4.X

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I got a fresh portal and tomcat bundle:
liferay-portal-src-4.2.2.zip - unzipped to a folder call portal
liferay-portal-tomcat-jdk5-4.2.2.zip - unzipped to a folder call tomcat

In the portal folder, I ran "ant start" to build my db scripts. I went to the portal\sql\create folder. I opened up create-mysql.sql and changed lportal to lportal422.
I ran mysql < create-mysql.sql to build the lportal422 database locally.

I went to portal\lib\development and copied mysql.jar to the tomcat\common\lib\ext folder.

I modified ROOT.xml to point to the lportal422 database.


I started up tomcat and everything was running.

Hav2say, getting liferay running is not 4 softies - esp on linux. had a running tomcat bundle for 3 days. came back on monday and since then i only get white / blank pages.

Going out of my mind, i wiped everything, formatted and using suse tried again - no luck, only white screens in stead of seeing liferay.

then worked step by step through the manual process of installing tomcat as a service and getting liferay 2 run on that - impossible. either the steps on the page is incomplete or i 4got 2 install something. 2 days later liferay still does not run and the log file shows no usefull info.

then tried the same with 4.3/tc6 bundle in linux - still impossible. I would love it if the log files actually meant something...

Liferay is installed in 3 Easy Steps in Windows and Linux
1. Install Java
2. Set JAVA_HOME
3. Unzip the Liferay-Tomcat Bundle (\bin\startup.sh for Linux and \bin\statup.bat for windows)