Ansible Role: Liferay

Installs Liferay on RHEL/CentOS servers with ansible.

Requirements

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Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

liferay

liferay_port: '8080'
liferay_db_user: 'liferay'
liferay_db_password: 'liferay'
liferay_default_database_url: "jdbc:mysql://{{ ip_mysql }}/liferay?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false"

liferay_archive_url: 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files/Liferay%20Portal/6.2.3%20GA4/liferay-portal-tomcat-6.2-ce-ga4-20150416163831865.zip'
liferay_version: '6.2.ce'
liferay_bundle_base_dir_name: 'liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga4'

Liferay archive to be installed. If the file in local exists it will be used.

liferay_unpack_folder: '/opt'

The folder on the server whe the Liferay bundle will be unpacked

liferay_home: '/opt/liferay'

Liferay's home folder.

liferay_user: 'liferay'
liferay_group: 'liferay'

The operating system user and group that will be used to run Liferay

liferay_dl_folder: '{{ liferay_home }}/data/document_library/'

A folder where files from Liferay's document library will be stored.

liferay_bundle_tomcat_version: '7.0.42'
liferay_tomcat_dir: '{{ liferay_home }}/tomcat-{{ liferay_bundle_tomcat_version }}'

The version of the Tomcat that is bundled in the current Liferay Portal server installation.

liferay_autodeploy_dir: '{{liferay_home}}/deploy'
liferay_enable_remote_debug: false
liferay_cluster_autodetect: google.com:80

liferay_db_host: '127.0.0.1'
liferay_default_database_driver : 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'
liferay_additional_databases: []

Liferay database informations.

geerlingguy java

java_home: '/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0-openjdk'

Dependencies

• geerlingguy.java

Example Playbook

- hosts: liferay
  vars:
    mysql_databases:
      - name: liferay
    mysql_users:
      - name: liferay
        password: liferay
        priv: "liferay.*:ALL"
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: geerlingguy.java
      when: "ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'"
      java_packages:
        - java-1.8.0-openjdk
    - role: geerlingguy.mysql
    - role: cetic.liferay

Tests

testing locally with Vagrant

You can test this ansible role by using vagrant. See the Vagrantfile.

testing with Travis

See the playbook used for Travis CI tests (tests/test.yml).

Future improvements

• Provide more recent version of Liferay
• Add Solr plugin
• Linux support

Feel free to contribute.

License

MIT License

Sources

• https://github.com/azzazzel/ansible-liferay
• https://github.com/silpion/ansible-liferay