These are the components that a successful Liferay installation will need:

This note is a work in progress. I've got it to work. But performance is a big problem. We can't deploy it unless I am able to reduce the average response time from 5+ seconds down to less than 500 milliseconds per page.

Configure the database

Here is my note on Configure Liferay-4.4.2 with Glassfish Bundle to Use MySQL on Gentoo

1. Install mysql server:
   1. # emerge -pv dev-db/mysql
   2. # USE=-berkdb emerge -v dev-db/mysql
      (Berkeley DB is deprecated in msyql, so no need to install it)
   3. At the end of above command, it suggested to run the following:
      # emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.0.54
      (This command will setup the mysql root pwd)
   4. # rc-update add mysql default
   5. # /etc/init.d/mysql start
2. Install MySQL JDBC connector:
   

1. Register via Liferay Sign In to join Liferay Community
2. Source file:
   Goto Liferay on Sourceforge and download the source file zipped package. Don't download the whole repositary via subversion, which is huge and take many hours to download.
3. Project file:
   

Installation doc:

• Install Liferay with GlassFish bundle
• Liferay Portal 4.3 - Installation Guide

Below is what I had done to install Liferay with Glassfish bundle: