PHP portlet in Liferay 5 running on WebSphere Application Server 6.1
Posted by eichelgartenweg on 2:36 PM with 2 comments
Liferay supports portlets with php content. The deployment of these portlets in Tomcat is quite easy.
The deployment of a PHP portlet in Liferay 5 on a WebSphere Server is a bit more difficult.
1. Download the sample_php_portletWAS.war. Its a enhanced version of Liferays original php portlet. The WAR contains all needed files.
2. Move the portal-kernal.jar from <Liferay_root>/WebINF/lib to <WebSphere-System-Root>/lib/ext (or to any other class loading position which is higher then the Liferay 's class loader order).
3. Deploy the php portlet
3.1 In administrative console go to Applications > Enterprise Applications.
3.2 Select the Liferay 5.x App and click "Update"
3.3 Select "Replace or add a single module"
3.4. Select the sample_php_portletWAS.war and specify the context root and the module path.
Also you need to select "Show me all installation options and parameters".
3.5 Click "Next" to start the deployment process
3.6. On step 2 you need to map the server to the sample_php_portlet. Choose the server where Liferay 5.x is deployed.
3.7. On step 7 its nesessary to define the context path again
3.8. Start the deployment (Click "FINISH" and "SAVE")
4. Restart the server
5. Sign in to Liferay and add the "sample_php_portlet"
More information about the deployment of Liferay portlets in WebSphere can be found here
The deployment of a PHP portlet in Liferay 5 on a WebSphere Server is a bit more difficult.
1. Download the sample_php_portletWAS.war. Its a enhanced version of Liferays original php portlet. The WAR contains all needed files.
2. Move the portal-kernal.jar from <Liferay_root>/WebINF/lib to <WebSphere-System-Root>/lib/ext (or to any other class loading position which is higher then the Liferay 's class loader order).
3. Deploy the php portlet
3.1 In administrative console go to Applications > Enterprise Applications.
3.2 Select the Liferay 5.x App and click "Update"
3.3 Select "Replace or add a single module"
3.4. Select the sample_php_portletWAS.war and specify the context root and the module path.
Also you need to select "Show me all installation options and parameters".
3.5 Click "Next" to start the deployment process3.6. On step 2 you need to map the server to the sample_php_portlet. Choose the server where Liferay 5.x is deployed.
3.7. On step 7 its nesessary to define the context path again
3.8. Start the deployment (Click "FINISH" and "SAVE")
4. Restart the server
5. Sign in to Liferay and add the "sample_php_portlet"
More information about the deployment of Liferay portlets in WebSphere can be found here
Hi. I'am currently thinking about "enabling" PHP-Developers to build PHP-Portlets. But what is the benefit? Is it possible to use a PHP-Framework they are allready familiar with too? Or, is it just "syntactic sugar"?
ReplyDeleteWhat about the persistence? how easy/difficult is it to use the infrastructure provided?
Somehow it looks like a marketing trick...
hi,
ReplyDeletefrom my view its only a marketing trick. It is not really useful...
WebSphere itselfs offers PHP-Support.
Maybe you should try that.
Greets