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Installing a Server in IntelliJ

Installing a Liferay server in IntelliJ is easy. In just a few steps, you’ll
have your server up and running.

Note: Tomcat and Wildfly are the only supported Liferay app server bundles
available to install in
IntelliJ.

Follow these steps to install your server:

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1. Right-click your Liferay Workspace and select Liferay → InitBundle.

This downloads the Liferay DXP bundle specified in your workspace’s

gradle.properties file.
You can change the default bundle by updating the
liferay.workspace.bundle.url property.
For example, this is required to
update the default bundle version and/or type (e.g., Wildfly). The
downloaded bundle is stored in the workspace’s bundles folder.

2. Navigate to the top right Configurations dropdown menu and select Edit
Configurations. From
here, you can configure your server’s run and debug
configurations.

Figure 1: You have several options to choose from the server dropdown menu.

3. Click the Add New Configuration button

( ) and select
Liferay Server.

4. Give your server a better name and modify any other configurations, if
necessary. Then select OK .

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Figure 2: Set your Liferay server's configurations in the Run/Debug Configurations menu.

Your server is now available in IntelliJ! Make sure to select it in the

Configurations dropdown before
executing the configuration buttons (below).

For reference, here’s how the IntelliJ configuration buttons work with your
Liferay DXP instance:

Start ( ):
Starts the server.
Stop ( ): Stops
the server.
Debug ( ):
Starts the server in debug mode. For more information on debugging in
IntelliJ, see
the
IntelliJ Debugging
article.

Now you’re ready to use your server in IntelliJ!

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