Liferay DXP Patching Tool

This Blog will help you to apply the Liferay Patch to Liferay Enterprise users. As we know that Liferay provides patching-tool utility to update the latest fix pack. Liferay Enterprise users by default they will have a Patching tool in the server. If it is not available then we can download from the Liferay Website. 

1.  Download and Configure Patching Tool.

• Download patching from Liferay Website.
• Below is the folder structure inside the patching tool 

• Change the below details in default.properties files.

            patching.mode=binary

           war.path=../tomcat-8.0.32/webapps/ROOT/

           global.lib.path=../tomcat-8.0.32/lib/ext/

            liferay.home=../

• Inside the patches folder we need to copy the Patch file zip. Below i have two versions copied into my local pathches folder below is the screenshot.
• After copying the Patching file Open the patching tool (liferay-dxp-digital-enterprise-7.0-sp6\patching-tool\) path in command prompt. 
• In the above path, we have the files "patching-tool.bat" - for windows system and "patching-tool.sh"- for Linux or ubuntu system.
• Below are the few commands which are available.

           patching-tool info - This command is used to display the information about the patch available in your Liferay server and the version of the patching tool.

           patching-tool auto-discovery - This command is used to auto-discover the Liferay Server based on your default.properties file.

           patching-tool setup - This command is used to setup the patching.
           patching-tool install- This command is used to install the patching.

• First run "patching-tool setup" or   "./patching-tool.sh setup" for the setup of patch.
• Then run "patching-tool install" or   "./patching-tool.sh install" to install the patch.
• After installing the patch we can check the version of the patch by using the "patching-tool info" command.