Before Opening
- Before Opening a Clustering Ticket
 - Before Opening a Document Library Ticket
 - Before Opening a LAR/Staging Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay API Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay Performance Ticket
 - Before Opening a Liferay Sync Ticket
 - Before Opening an Accessibility Ticket
 - Before Opening an Activation Key Ticket
 - Before Opening an Authentication Ticket
 - Before Opening an Upgrade Ticket
 - Before Opening a Portal Deployment Ticket
 - Before Opening a Search/Indexing ticket
 - Before Opening a Security Ticket
 - Before Opening a Shutdown/Inoperable System Ticket
 - Before opening a ticket related to VPN on Liferay PaaS
 - Before Opening a User Interface (UI) Ticket
 - Before Opening a Web Content Management Ticket
 
Before Opening a Portal Deployment Ticket
This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable.
The following article outlines a short checklist of questions to ask and steps to take before opening a portal deployment ticket in Help Center. By taking a moment to go through this checklist before opening a Help Center request, you're ensuring the fastest possible resolution for the particular issue.
Resolution
For each ticket, please attach your portal-ext.properties file as well as the output of the patching-tool info command specific to the environment.
For portal deployment tickets specifically, please work through the following checklist and include the resulting information when you create a ticket:
- Please review Deployment Checklist, if you haven’t done so
 - This component includes the initial stages of deploying the portal
 - Is this a new installation of Liferay or an upgrade? 
                
- If this is an upgrade please see the Upgrade section of this document.
 
 - Is this deployment a bundle obtained from the Customer Portal?
 - Is the database, application server, and OS being utilized listed on the Support Matrix for this JDK version of Liferay?
 - If not, what steps were taken to deploy the portal?
 - Were the steps from the user guide for manual portal deployment with this application server followed? See Portal Best Practices
                
- See the Installation and Setup section of the user guide for the appropriate version of Liferay.