Running Liferay 6.1 CE on Non Root Context

By default Liferay 6.1 CE runs on root context after installation. Sometimes this may not be possible. Assuming that we would like Liferay 6.1 CE to work as http://<hostname>/myportal instead of http://<hostname>/, just make the following changes.

1. Under liferay-portal-6.1.0/tomcat-7.0.23/webapps directory

• Rename directory ROOT to myportal

2. Under liferay-portal-6.1.0/tomcat-7.0.23/conf/Catalina/localhost directory

• Rename file root to myportal
• Edit myportal file and change  <Context path=""...> to  <Context path="/myportal"...>

3. Under  liferay-portal-6.1.0 directory

• Edit portal-ext.properties (create one if it does not exist), add in portal.ctx=/myportal

4. After restarting Liferay, it is very important to perform the following additional step. Without making this change, a number of portlets such as message board would not work properly.

• Login as portal administrator
• Bring up "Control Panel" and click on "Portal Instances" under "Server" tab
• Change the default value "localhost" at "Virtual Host" to the domain where Liferay is hosted.

5. Liferay should be working on http://<hostname>/myportal