Deploy Liferay 5.1.2 to IBM WebSphere 6.1.x

Install a new IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1 to c:\was61 by running launchpad.exe
No need to install sample applications
Do not enable admin security for simplicity

Create a MySQL database (Only for demo purposes, Liferay can also work with existing databases)
- Download non-installer version of MySQL 5.0.67 from www.mysql.com (http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-noinstall-5.0.67-win32.zip/from/http://mysql.mirror.ac.za/)
- Extract mysql-noinstall-5.0.67-win32.zip to c:\mysql
- start mysql by running "c:\mysql\bin\mysqld"
- Create lportal database by running "c:\mysql\bin\mysql -h localhost -u root -p", then run "create database lportal;"
Obtain MySQL JDBC driver
- Copy mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar to c:\was61\lib\ext (Later version can also be used)
Start WAS using Start -> Programs -> IBM WebSphere -> Profiles -> AppSrv001 -> Start the server
Go to admin console using Start -> Programs -> IBM WebSphere -> Profiles -> AppSrv001 -> Administrative Console
When a browser starts, click "Log in" button while leaving User ID blank
Delete all application to avoid context root conflict with Liferay
- Click Applications -> Enterprise Applications
- Select all listed applications and then click Uninstall
- Click on Save when prompted
Create a MySQL data source for Liferay runtime
- While on Administrative Console, click Resources -> JDBC -> JDBC Providers
- Choose ...server1 for scope from the dropdown list box
- Click New
- Select "User-defined" for Database Type
- Enter (No quotes) "com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource" for Implementation class name
- Set Name to "MySQL JDBC Provider"
- Click Next
- Clear the text box for Class path
- Click Next and then Finish
- On the left hand navigation, click JDBC Providers
- Choose "MySQL JDBC Provider"
- Click "Data sources" under Additional Properties on the right hand side
- Click New
- For Data source name, type "LiferayDataSource"
- For JNDI name, type "jdbc/LiferayPool"
- Click Next, click Next, click Finish
- Click Data sources from the breadcrumbs (which should be JDBC providers > MySQL JDBC Provider > Data sources > LiferayDataSource)
- Click Custom properties under Additional Properties on the right side
- Delete all property items by selecting them and clicking Delete
- Click New
- Type user for Name, and root for Value, click OK
- Click New, type serverName for Name and localhost for Value, click OK
- Click New, type databaseName for Name and lportal for Value, click OK
- Save when prompted
- Click LiferayDataSource from the breadcrumbs, click Test connection button to test
Create a mail session for Liferay runtime
- Click Resources -> Mail -> Mail sessions
- For Scope, choose ...Server=server1
- Click New
- Set Name to LiferayMail
- Set JNDI name to mail/LiferayMailSession
- Click OK, click Save when prompted
Deploy Liferay 5.1.2
- Obtain liferay-portal-5.1.2.war from Liferay.com or Sourceforge.net
- Still in the Admin Console, click Applications -> Install New Application
- Browse for the war file that was downloaded earlier
- Type / for Context root
- Click Next, click Next
- Choose LiferayDataSource and LiferayMailSession
- Click Next and Finish
- Wait until the deployment is complete and save when prompted
Install Liferay 5.1.2 dependency files
- Obtain liferay-portal-dependencies-5.1.2.zip
- Extract this ZIP file to c:\was61\lib\ext
- Make sure all jars are immediately under c:\was61\lib\ext since Winzip keeps them in a folder by default
Copy icu4j.jar to c:\was61\java\jre\lib\ext
- icu4j.jar should be able to be found somewhere in installedApps folder
- Copy to c:\was61\java\jre\lib\ext
Move portlet.jar to c:\was61java\jre\lib\ext
- Locate portlet.jar at c:\was61\lib\ext
- Move it to c:\was61java\jre\lib\ext (You may have stop the server first)
Copy commons-annotation.jar to c:\was61\lib\ext
- Obtain commons-annocation.jar, preferrably from Spring 2.5.5 distribution
- Copy it to c:\was61\lib\ext
Change memory settings
- Go back to Admin Console
- Click Servers -> Application Servers -> server1 -> Java and Process Management -> Process Definition -> Java Virtual Machine
- Type 256 for Initial Heap Size
- Type 512 for Maximum Heap Size (Windows might have a restriction of 1024, more than this could prevent WAS from restarting)
- Click OK and save as required
restart WAS
- Start -> Programs -> IBM WebSphere -> Profiles -> AppSrv001 -> Stop the server
- Start -> Programs -> IBM WebSphere -> Profiles -> AppSrv001 -> Start the server
Test by go to http://localhost:9080 and login as test@liferay.com and password test