Welcome to Liferay Portal!

1. Installation instructions
2. Learning more
3. Professionally Supported

Installation instructions

All Liferay bundles are designed so that they can be installed and used within minutes. Learn more at:

Quick Installation Instructions

After following this instructions you'll have a fully functional Liferay Portal installation with several default users.

Sample data: 7Cogs, Inc

This Liferay bundle includes some sample data to showcase Liferay Portal's capabilities. You will find several users, organization and web pages already created belonging to a fictitious company called 7Cogs.

Removing the sample data

To remove the sample data that is included in the bundle follow these steps:

1. Go to the Control Panel > Plugin Installation, search for 7cogs-hook and remove it.
   Note: some application servers may not support hot undeploy using this method. In those cases follow the instructions of your application server to undeploy 7cogs-hook.war
2. Stop the Liferay Portal server
3. Delete the data in your database or point to a new database
4. Start the Liferay Portal server
5. Use a browser to access the server and login using the following credentials:
   • E-mail: test@liferay.com
   • Password: test

Preparing for production

The Liferay Portal bundle uses an embedded database to make installation fast and easy.

To find out more about how to install it in a production environment read the Liferay Portal Administration Guide available at Liferay's documentation pages

Learning more

The following resources are recommended for learning more about Liferay Portal and getting help if needed:

• Official Documentation: Official Guides written by Liferay
• Community Wiki: Hundreds of articles written by Liferay developers and the community
• Community Forum: Join the Liferay community and participate. You can ask and answer questions in 10 different languages

Professionally supported

Liferay Portal provides all the benefits of Open Source plus all the benefits of professionally supported software. Liferay offers a variety of services all around the world including:

• Training
• Consulting
• Support

Learn more about Liferay's professional services at our website and contact us for pricing.