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Running Liferay in Development Mode

Liferay speeds up rendering UI pages including Portlets by caching CSS, JS and layout files, this make developing portlets little painful, since every time you make js or css changes in your portlet and deploy. you may have to clear temp, work directoires and clear caches from Liferay control panel.

So when using Liferay for development we can switch off the caching by adding few properties to "portal-ext.properties" file, this will save some time and frustation when developing portlets

Solution 1 :
 Copy all values from portal-developer.properties to portal-ext.properties

Solution 2 :
 Copy below values to portal-ext.properties,
portal-ext.properties location - webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/portal-ext.properties if not present create a new one

theme.css.fast.load=false
theme.images.fast.load=false

javascript.fast.load=true
javascript.log.enabled=true

layout.template.cache.enabled=false

browser.launcher.url=

combo.check.timestamp=true

freemarker.engine.cache.storage=soft:1
freemarker.engine.modification.check.interval=0

openoffice.cache.enabled=false

velocity.engine.resource.manager.cache.enabled=false

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.cache.CacheFilter=false

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.themepreview.ThemePreviewFilter=true

Comments

Unknown said…
Well, or you can just enter this line in your portal-ext.properties: "include-and-override=portal-developer.properties" (this is what Liferay IDE does in its portal-ide.properties). And it's better to create a portal-ext.properties in ${liferay.home}, not in WEB-INF/classes..
March 29, 2013 at 9:27 AM
Philipp Gensel said…
Thank you for your insight. Could you explain me why it is better to create the portal-ext.properties in ${liferay.home}?
December 28, 2017 at 1:32 PM
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