I am trying to create a simple PHP portlet in liferay: Steps followed: 1. http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/How_to_create_a_simple_php_portlet on liferay-portal-jboss-tomcat-4.2-5.0.1 2. Log in as administrator(test(a)liferay.com/test). Select "add application"->Admin->PluginInstaller-> add Error(in red): "An error occurred while retrieving available plugins." The server.log has the following trace: ERROR [PluginPackageUtil] Unable to load repository http://plugins.liferay.com/official com.liferay.portal.plugin.PluginPackageException: Unable to communicate with repository http://plugins.liferay.com/official ERROR [PluginPackageUtil] Unable to load repository http://plugins.liferay.com/community com.liferay.portal.plugin.PluginPackageException: Unable to communicate with repository http://plugins.liferay.com/community WARN [PluginPackageUtil] Unable to communicate with repository http://plugins.liferay.com/official 3. Upload the php zipped file using the "upload file" tab -> Install I got following success message: The plugin was uploaded successfully and is now being installed. The server log has: 07:34:58,582 INFO [PortletAutoDeployListener] Portlets for C:\Documents and Settings\m1006785\liferay\deploy\test_abc.zip copied successfully 07:35:01,317 ERROR [URLDeploymentScanner] Incomplete Deployment listing: --- Packages waiting for a deployer --- org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@b25dfae { url=file:/D:/Liferay/liferay-portal-jboss-tomcat-4.2-5.0.1/server/default/deploy/test_abc.zip/ } deployer: null status: null state: INIT_WAITING_DEPLOYER watch: file:/D:/Liferay/liferay-portal-jboss-tomcat-4.2-5.0.1/server/default/deploy/test_abc.zip/ altDD: null lastDeployed: 1212737701317 lastModified: 1212737698442 mbeans: --- Incompletely deployed packages --- 4. Select "Return to full page" , Add application By default the portlet was supposed to appear in "Undefined" category but DOESNOT appear. The error in plugin installer section continues to have: "An error occurred while retrieving available plugins." I am not sure if it is waiting for some plugins to be downloaded from site and is not able to proceed due to communication error while accessing the trusted adn untrusted repositories at the following link: http://plugins.liferay.com/official Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4156271#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...