theme_SERVLET_CONTEXT_/templates/portal_normal.vm does not exist

Question

I am trying to create a basic liferay maven theme with some basic css and some header and footer

I have created a page and applied this theme for that page.

Basically my theme folder structure is

sample-theme
sample-theme/pom.xml
sample-theme/src
sample-theme/src/main
sample-theme/src/main/resources
sample-theme/src/main/webapp
sample-theme/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF
sample-theme/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/liferay-plugin-package.properties
sample-theme/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml

and my portal_normal.vm's path is

sample-theme\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\_diffs\templates\portal_normal.vm

When I open the page I get theme_SERVLET_CONTEXT_/templates/portal_normal.vm does not exist in the console.

what might be the problem?

Hi, if you are using maven, what is your parent theme in pom.xml? also, did you check the server logs? — Felix Christy, Aug 07 '13 at 12:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

You are having a wrong theme structure. You don't need a _diffsfolder while building a theme in Maven.

Below is the screenshot which shows the theme structure you have to follow while building a theme in Maven

Maven Liferay Theme

Here are the definitions in pom.xml

plugin

     <plugin>
            <groupId>com.liferay.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>liferay-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${liferay.version}</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>theme-merge</goal>
                        <goal>build-css</goal>
                        <goal>build-thumbnail</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
                <autoDeployDir>${liferay.auto.deploy.dir}</autoDeployDir>
                <appServerDeployDir>${liferay.app.server.deploy.dir}</appServerDeployDir>
                <appServerLibGlobalDir>${liferay.app.server.lib.global.dir}</appServerLibGlobalDir>
                <appServerPortalDir>${liferay.app.server.portal.dir}</appServerPortalDir>
                <liferayVersion>${liferay.version}</liferayVersion>
                <parentTheme>${liferay.theme.parent}</parentTheme>
                <pluginType>theme</pluginType>
                <themeType>${liferay.theme.type}</themeType>
            </configuration>
    </plugin>

properties

<liferay.theme.parent>classic</liferay.theme.parent>
<liferay.theme.type>vm</liferay.theme.type>

I am having the same issue, but I have the structure setup correctly. Do I need to include ALL files from the classic theme for this to work? I thought the liferay build process was supposed to add these files. What goal do you run to build the theme? — acvcu, May 09 '14 at 12:43

theme_SERVLET_CONTEXT_/templates/portal_normal.vm does not exist

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