Download and Install liferay

First download the community version with tomcat server from the liferay website
or Click Here


Unzip the contents to a suitable location.

Open the bin directory

And click on the startup.bat file to start and shutdown.bat file to shutdown.



To change the server standard time.

Open the setenv.bat in an editor and change the –Duser.timezone

-Duser.timezone=Asia/Delhi

Restart the Server .




For Database Settings

log into the MySql command line editor.

mysql> create database `lportal` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

create a portal-ext.properties file in \liferay-portal-6.0.6

Add the following Lines to connect to MySql Database.

#
# MySQL
#
jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEn
coding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false
jdbc.default.username=root
jdbc.default.password=root

save and restart.

Check installation success in MySql

mysql>use lportal ;
mysql>show tables ;


A total of 185 rows indicating 185 tables must be shown.


Thats it, You are done and now you can start development on Liferay !!!



Cheers..!!

Gaurav