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How to get Liferay running in Windows XP Pro

February 28, 2008 By Jerry Niu

Install Java

 

Set JAVA_HOME

  • Set the JAVA_HOME Environment Variable and point it to the location of the JDK
  • Add JAVA_HOME to the Path Env Var
  • Tomcat needs to know the location of the JDK in order to run properly

 

Download Liferay tomcat bundle

 

Start up Tomcat


 

http://localhost:8080

 

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Adam T
Adam T
2/28/08 2:06 PM

Good stuff, there is a similarly detailed article on how to start custom development with Liferay on the wiki:
http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Development_Environment_%28Windows%29

Jerry Niu
Jerry Niu
5/30/08 11:23 AM

Hi Adam. This set up is for a regular user who will not see or touch the code.

On a side note. I recently move to another laptop with Windows XP Home. The instructions can be applied successfully to Windows XP Home as well.

The login credentials are:
test@liferay.com / test