Building and Deploying Instructions for:

uPortal Full-Source Version
uPortal Quick Start

uPortal Full-Source Version

Download the latest version of uPortal from the downloads page

wget https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/archive/uportal-4.3.0.tar.gz

After you have downloaded uPortal, unpack the uPortal source outside the Tomcat container (i.e., /usr/local/src or any directory outside tomcat)

tar -xvf uPortal-4.3.0.tar.gz

Now, we can configure your uPortal for deployment

Step 1: Configure the build.properties file

The uPortal build requires a build.properties file describing the deployment environment to be available in the root of the uPortal project.

1. Go to your uPortal source directory and create the build.properties file by copying the build.properties.sample file to build.properties

cp build.properties.sample build.properties

2. Open the build.properties for editing and configure the "server.home" property to point to the root directory of your Tomcat installation.

##### Replace server.home with the location of Tomcat 6 on your machine #####
# path to tomcat binaries
server.home=/path/to/tomcat

Step 2: Configure filters

In the filters folder, locate the default local.properties file and configure the Database Connection Settings, uPortal Server Configuration Properties, CAS Server Configuration, Logging information, and LDAP settings. Replace localhost:8080 with your server name.

uPortal provides an optional mechanism to override these settings with a file that is completely outside uPortal source. This approach allows systems administrators to change these settings without rebuilding. It also provides an easy way for adopters to keep sensitive information outside of their Source Code Management system (See Properties Files and Properties Overrides).

## HSQL Configuration
environment.build.hsql.port=8887


## Database Connection Settings (Uncomment the Maven Filters section in rdbm.properties)
environment.build.hibernate.connection.driver_class=org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver
environment.build.hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:${environment.build.hsql.port}/uPortal
environment.build.hibernate.connection.username=sa
environment.build.hibernate.connection.password=
environment.build.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
 
# uPortal server configuration properties
environment.build.uportal.server=localhost:8080
environment.build.uportal.protocol=http
environment.build.uportal.context=/uPortal
environment.build.uportal.email.fromAddress=portal@university.edu


# CAS server configuration properties
environment.build.cas.server=localhost:8080
environment.build.cas.protocol=http


# Log4J values applied to portlets and portals.  See log4j.properties file
# in WEB-INF or resources directory for each portlet. This provides a
# single point of control for most logging.


environment.build.log.rootLevel=INFO
# Directory to place portal and portlet log files into.
environment.build.log.logfileDirectory=${catalina.base}/logs
# Assume a DailyRollingFileAppender is used. Set the pattern to daily log-file roll-overs.
# Can also set to hourly, weekly, etc.  Use yyyy-MM-dd-HH for hourly.
# See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/DailyRollingFileAppender.html
environment.build.log.rollingLogFileDatePattern=yyyy-MM-dd
# Pattern to specify format of each log file entry.  See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/index.html.
environment.build.log.layoutConversionPattern=%5p [%t] %c{2}.[%x] %d{ISO8601} - %m%n
environment.build.logback.layoutConversionPattern=%-5level [%thread] %logger{36} %d{ISO8601} - %msg%n


# LDAP server connection settings (optional)
# To connect to LDAP, provide your connection information here and uncomment one 
# or both integration beans in uportal-war/src/main/resources/properties/contexts/ldapContext.xml
environment.build.ldap.url=
environment.build.ldap.baseDn=
environment.build.ldap.userName=
environment.build.ldap.password=

Optional: Creating multiple filter files per environment

By default, uPortal 4 uses the local.properties filter file, but you can create your own filter file and build/deploy uPortal using a flag for selecting the desired filter file.

For example, I can create a new filter file named test.properties and set all my servers to point to test servers. Then, when I build and deploy uPortal I can use the flag, -Denv=test . Note, that you use the part of the file name before .properties when using the flag. This flag applies to both ant and maven.

Make sure you use the clean command when making a switch between filters. (See example commands below)
ant clean deploy-ear -Denv=test
mvn clean install -Denv=test

Step 3: Configure your database.

Aside from entering your database server information in the local.properties filter file from Step 2, there are additional database configurations that may need to be performed. Find your selected database below and follow the steps for database-specific instruction:

Step 4: Tomcat Reminder

Just in case you missed it, don't forget to do the following configuration in your Tomcat installation

Shared Libraries
- uPortal places libraries in CATALINA_BASE/shared/lib The default Tomcat 7.0 download does not enable libraries to be loaded from this directory. To resolve this you must edit CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.properties and change the line that begins "shared.loader=" to the following:

Enabling shared libraries in CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.properties

<!-- In older versions prior to uPortal 4.0.10 --> 
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar
 
<!-- In uPortal 4.0.10+, shared/classes is NOT necessary: ->
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar

Shared Sessions
- Jasig portlets, as well as many other popular JSR-168/JSR-286 portlets, rely on the ability to share user session data between the portal web application and portlet applications. To enable this feature:
  - Tomcat 6.0: add the emptySessionPath="true" parameter to the in-use connector (configured in Tomcat in CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml).
  - Tomcat 7.0: add the "sessionCookiePath="/" to CATALINA_BASE/conf/context.xml.

Example Tomcat 6.0 Connector Configuration

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
    connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" emptySessionPath="true"/>

Example Tomcat 7.0 Connector Configuration

<Context sessionCookiePath="/">

JVM Heap Configuration

uPortal requires a larger than standard PermGen space and more heap than may be allocated by default. A good conservative set of heap settings are "-XX:MaxPermSize=300m -Xmx1024m". To add these follow the directions for your OS:

On Windows
Edit the file $TOMCAT_HOME\bin\startup.bat and insert or alter the following line, substituting for the desired values:
set CATALINA_OPTS=-XX:MaxPermSize=300m -Xmx1024m

The line you add should go just before the line starting call “%EXECUTABLE%”…

On Linux/Unix/OS X
Edit the file $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh and insert the following line, substituting for the desired value, eg. Bash Shell:
export CATALINA_OPTS=”-XX:MaxPermSize=300m -Xmx1024m”

Step 5: Deploy uPortal

WARNING: Running the following command will reinitialize your database by dropping all tables first. Your content will be lost if you run against an existing database.

Run the following command to deploy uPortal and load your database

ant initportal

Step 6: Restart Tomcat

$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh

Step 7: Access uPortal

http://localhost:8080/uPortal/

Replace localhost:8080 with your configured server path

If everything has been installed correctly you should see the out-of-the-box uPortal screen below

uPortal Quick-Start

Step 1: Untar the package

After downloading the uPortal quickstart version untar the package as follows

tar -xvf uPortal-4.2-quick-start.tar.gz

Step 2: Set up JAVA_HOME

Make sure the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set

 export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java

Step 3: Startup uPortal

Start uPortal by running the ant command from inside the uPortal-4.2-quick-start directory

# Linux
# Temporary due to https://issues.jasig.org/browse/UP-4454:
export M2_HOME=<pathToYourQuickstartLocation>/apache-maven-3.0.5
export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin 
./ant.sh start

 
# Windows
ant start

Environment Variable Conflicts

If your quick start build fails, verify you do not have CATALINA_OPTS or JAVA_OPTS environment variables set with values that might cause the build or execution to fail.

Step 4: Access uPortal

http://localhost:8080/uPortal/