Docker image for liferay 6.2

A Liferay 6.2 ga6 container with separation of liferay-home and portal bundle files.

Build image

In order to build the image execute this command in the terminal

docker build -f Dockerfile -t duffmck/docker-liferay:latest .

Inside the image you will find:

1. Liferay 6.2 ga6 bundle
2. Liferay CE remote IDE connector
3. Liferay Marketplace portlet

Start image

You can start it directly, it will use the hsqldb (not for production!)

docker run --rm -t -i -p 8080:8080 duffmck/docker-liferay

When you have the message "INFO: Server startup in xxx ms" you can open a browser and go to http://localhost:8080 (with boot2docker you must specify the ip, you can found it with # boot2docker ip)

Link with Database

Acutally you can link it with mysql but it is easy to add one.

Mysql

First start the mysql image

docker run --name lf-mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -e MYSQL_USER=lportal -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=lportal -e MYSQL_DATABASE=lportal -d mysql:5.6

Then start the liferay image with a link to the database and a volume mounted on a folder (on your host) for the liferay home directory

docker run --name liferay-6.2 --rm -it -p 8080:8080 --link lf-mysql:db_lep -v /tmp/liferay-home:/var/liferay-home -e DB_TYPE=MYSQL duffmck/docker-liferay

where:

1. --name liferay-6.2 -> is the name of container
2. --link lf-mysql:db_lep -> is the link to container with MySQL:
   1. lf-mysql is the name of container
   2. db_lep is the reference available into the Liferay container (used in the MySQL connection string jdbc:mysql://db_lep/lportal)
3. -v /tmp/liferay-home:/var/liferay-home -> is the volume for the liferay home directory:
   1. /tmp/liferay-home is the absolute path of a directory on the host (your computer)
   2. /var/liferay-home is the path used by Liferay, do not change this value