# Example settings for portal-ext.properties on WAS 6.1

The Endeca installation includes a default version of portal-ext.properties.

This file serves as a useful starting point for configuration of the portal properties, and should be deployed to the application server according to the steps described in a previous topic.

Note: Most of the settings in the default portal-ext.properties file are not specific to deployment on WAS 6.1. However, the following additional settings (which you must add to the file as described in the topic "Editing the portal-ext.properties file for WAS 6.1 deployment") are important for portlet deployment on WAS:

    auto.deploy.dest.dir=/home/endeca/liferay/websphere-deploy
    ehcache.portal.cache.manager.jmx.enabled=false

Keep in mind that the destination directory (specified by the `auto.deploy.dest.dir` setting) must exist before the plugin is hot-deployed. In the above example, you must manually create the websphere-deploy directory if it does not exist.