creating and deploying liferay

download liferay tomcat from the corresponding repository
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lportal/liferay-portal-tomcat-6.0-${downloads.version}.zip

download.version=corresponding version eg 5.1.0

ext> open app.server.properties and modify the followings

##
## Server Directory
##

app.server.parent.dir=${project.dir}/../

##
## Tomcat
##

#app.server.tomcat.version=5.5
#app.server.tomcat.dir=${app.server.parent.dir}/tomcat-5.5.26
app.server.tomcat.bin.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/bin
#app.server.tomcat.classes.global.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/common/classes
app.server.tomcat.classes.portal.dir=${app.server.tomcat.portal.dir}/WEB-INF/classes
app.server.tomcat.deploy.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/webapps
#app.server.tomcat.lib.endorsed.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/common/endorsed
#app.server.tomcat.lib.global.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/common/lib/ext
#app.server.tomcat.lib.portal.dir=${app.server.tomcat.portal.dir}/WEB-INF/lib
#app.server.tomcat.lib.support.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/server/lib
app.server.tomcat.portal.dir=${app.server.tomcat.deploy.dir}/ROOT
app.server.tomcat.log.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/logs
app.server.tomcat.temp.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/temp
app.server.tomcat.work.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/work
#app.server.tomcat.zip.name=liferay-portal-tomcat-5.5-${downloads.version}.zip
app.server.tomcat.zip.url=${sourceforge.mirror}/${app.server.tomcat.zip.name}

#
# Uncommment the following lines to deploy the portal in Tomcat 6.0.x
# instead of Tomcat 5.5.x.
#
app.server.tomcat.version=6.0
app.server.tomcat.dir=${app.server.parent.dir}/tomcat
app.server.tomcat.classes.global.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/lib
app.server.tomcat.lib.endorsed.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/lib/ext
app.server.tomcat.lib.global.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/lib/ext
app.server.tomcat.lib.support.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/lib/ext
app.server.tomcat.support.dir=${app.server.tomcat.dir}/lib/ext
app.server.tomcat.zip.name=liferay-portal-tomcat-6.0-${downloads.version}.zip

#
# Uncommment the following lines to deploy the portal to use the global
# class loader.
#
app.server.tomcat.classes.portal.dir=${app.server.tomcat.classes.global.dir}
app.server.tomcat.lib.portal.dir=${app.server.tomcat.lib.global.dir}


from ext > ant deploy