# Creating the Liferay Home directory for WAS 6.1

The remaining instructions in this section refer to a directory called Liferay Home. The Liferay Home directory is created relative to the user's home directory.

Manually create a Liferay Home directory (/home/endeca/liferay/), along with the following subdirectories:

- /home/endeca/liferay/data
- /home/endeca/liferay/data/endeca-data-sources
- /home/endeca/liferay/websphere-deploy