Liferay installation with Eclipse Indigo

Question

I am beginner worker with Liferay bundled with Tomcat server. So I downloaded the latest version of Liferay called:

liferay-portal-tomcat-7.0-ce-ga1-20160331161017956.zip

but when I extracted the archive I found Tomcat 8 not 7

So I faced a problem when trying to work with Eclipse and Liferay IDE with requires at most Tomcat server 7 installed not 8.

And that was the error message:

I didn't find older version of Liferay because all of them are Enterprise Edition. Any Help?

Answer 1

The liferay zip you downloaded is liferay-portal-tomcat-7.0-ce-ga1-20160331161017956.zip

With the file name -

liferay-portal = You downloaded Liferay Portal Server, not sdk, src, dependency etc
xxx-tomcat-xxx = You downloaded tomcat bundle
xx-7.0-xx      = You downloaded Liferay portal versin 7.0
xx-ce-xx       = Community Edition
xx-ga1-xx      = General availability

There would be many more GA coming.

"but when I extracted the archive I found Tomcat 8 not 7" -- So you got the liferay version as 7 and whatever tomcat is bundled.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Find an older version of liferay here: https://sourceforge.net/p/lportal/news/2016/01/liferay-62-ce-ga6-now-available/

For instructions how to add a new runtime environment to the IDE this link might help:

https://dev.liferay.com/develop/tutorials/-/knowledge_base/6-1/setting-up-liferay-ide

Answer 3

Simply, till now there is Liferay IDE 3.0 only compatible with Eclipse Luna or Mars. Liferay IDE 3.0 support Liferay 7. It has resolved the problem.

Answer 4

Latest Officially supported is version Eclipse MAR.2. But works with LUNA and NEON well. About Indigo i haven't tried try installing liferay plugin from this link

Help>Install new software>Add> Name : liferay Location : http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/latest/stable/

Hope it helps!