Generally in Liferay administration we create sites and
organizations and each site and organization have unique URL to access these
sites/organizations. Generally we will have friendly URL to access these
sites/organizations in Liferay.
Each site/organization has its own friendly URL and it consist
pattern like /web and site/organization
name. When we see /web in the URL
then we can consider that is Site/Organization in Liferay.
Site Example
Site Name:
|
LiferaySavvy
|
Site Friendly URL
|
/web/liferaysavvy
|
Complete URL Pattern
|
Host Name+ Site Friendly URL
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Complete URL
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http://localhost:8080
/web/liferaysavvy
|
Organization
Example
Site Name:
|
LiferaySavvyORG
|
Site Friendly URL
|
/web/liferaysavvy
|
Complete URL Pattern
|
Host Name+ Organization
Friendly URL
|
Complete URL
|
http://localhost:8080
/web/liferaysavvyorg
|
Generally in real time we won’t use friendly URL to access
site/organization we will use unique
domain name and that will be pointing to Liferay site/organization.to achieve this we will use Liferay virtual host
configuration.
Liferay Virtual Host is way of accessing site/organization with real world domain names. In Production we
use apache web server, domain vendor control panel configurations
and finally we use Liferay virtual host configuration.
In development environment to replicate
same kind of configuration in our local system we will follow some sequence of
steps.
Assume we wanted to access our Liferay site/organization with URL like www.liferaysavvy.com in our local system.
Steps:
- Create Site/Organization
- Configure Site URL with desired domain name www.sitename.com
- In host file map 127.0.0.1 with your domain name
Liferay Site
Virtual Hosting
Create Site
Access Liferay portal and login as Liferay Administration.
Go Control Panel from Admin Docbar.
Control panel we can see site section there click on sites link
Now in the sites page we can see Add button click on Add and
select Blank Site
Once we click on Blank site we can see site creation form and
it will ask basic details related to site like name and description.
Please fill all details and click on save button then site will be created.
After successful site creation then it will navigate to site
settings page there we can see many option related to site settings
In site setting page Right site section we can see Site URL link click on site URL then we
can have provision to specify our site URL and this is the place we need to
provide our desired domain name/site host name.
We have two kinds of pages in Liferay Site Public pages
and Private
pages. Public pages is can be accessed by all the site users but
private pages can be accessed by only the user who is created it means site admin and site owner can
access.
We can provide two distinct Virtual Hosts (URL/Domain Name)
for each set of pages. For accessing public pages we can give one Virtual
Host (URL/Domain Name) and for private pages we can give other Virtual
Host (URL/Domain Name).
When we click on Site URL link then we can have
provision to give public pages Virtual Host and Private pages Virtual Host.
We need to provide valid URL/Host Name in Virtual
Host input fields then click on save button. Now Our Site can be accessed by
given site URL.
As we know that at
time of site creation we have chosen black site so that it does not have any
pages.
Liferay site should have at least one page to access with
URL now we need to create one site page for our newly created site (LiferaySavvy)
Now in the site Options page Left Site Section you can find Pages menu tab there you can see site
pages link. Click on that so that we can create pages for site.
Now select public pages and under this we can create new
page by clicking one Add Page option .when we click on Add Page it will open
popup there it will ask required page
details. Once we fill detail then click on adds
page button in the popup then page will be crated under site public pages
section.
New page (home) will be created in the public
pages section
Mapping Virtual
Host Name with local system IP
This is final step in Liferay Site Virtual Host and here we
need to map given Site URL with our Local System IP address (127.0.0.1)
Generally our local system IP is 127.0.0.1 and we need to
map IP with Site URL in the system host
file.
In every system OS we have host file there we will configure
host names related to our local system. Based on Operating System we can find host
file in different locations. Generally it will be under etc directory (etc/host)
For windows this file location as follows
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
Now open host file in editor and map your Site URL with
127.0.0.1 in the new line in file and finally save the file then mapping will
be completed.
127.0.0.1 www.liferaysavvy.com
Now open your desire browser, in the address bar ping your
given Site URL then it will open your Liferay site.
Example: www.liferaysavvy.com:8080
Note:
In Development environment we are using only Application
servers so we need to append Port number for Site URL when we access from
browser.
If Site is already created then we need to access site
setting page then follow the above steps to complete Liferay site virtual
hosting.
Go to list of sites and select your desired site then click on
Actions menu there we can find Site Administration.
Once we click on site administration then we can see configuration
in Left side Menu when we click on that we can find site settings.
In the Site Setting right side section you can see site URL there you need
to enter your desired site URL name. Rest of the steps same as above.
Same way we can also configure virtual host for site private
pages. You also follow same steps for Liferay Organizations to configure
virtual host.
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