Liferay Patching Tool - Installation

Liferay provides patching-tool utility to update latest fix packs provided by the liferay. There are two steps involved in configuring the Liferay patch :

1. Configure the patching tool
2. Install the patch


Configuring the patching tool :

 1. Download the patching-tool from liferay and extract to your liferay-home folder
2. The patching-tool directory will look like below :



3. Navigate to the patching-tool directory and run the following command :

-> pathing-tool info and you would see the below message

-> patching-tool auto-directory

-> patching-tool setup


Installing the Patch

 1. Copy fix packs (should be zip format) to "patches" directory, I copied liferay-fix-pack-dxp-3-7110 and pasted it in the patches folder

2. Stop the Liferay server and run the below command for installing all patches copied in patches directory


patching-tool install

 3. Now, run the command patching-tool info  and it will show the patches installed something like below :




You can start the server and if you find any issues in the server startup, delete the 'state' folder from OSGI and restart it again.






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