How to override update_password.jsp in Liferay DXP 7.3.10 GA1

Question

I am trying to override the portal-web page update_password.jsp following these examples:

• JSP Overrides Using Custom JSP Bag and
• this example from Dave Nebinger

I also set the property service.ranking:Integer=112 in my CustomJspBag subclass. My module deploys and starts without errors and the page in portal-web/docroot/html/portal/update_password.jsp is replaced by the new one and the old page becomes update_password.portal.jsp. The class gets activated and the getCustomJsps() returns the page name.

But the changes are not visible in the browser. The old page keeps showing. How can I make it work?

Answer 1

Thank you for adding the portal version @Luke, I reproduced this issue using the same version now.
Then, after using the following resources, I managed to create a working app that overrides the update_password.jsp:
https://git.fortiss.org/civitas-digitalis/platform/-/tree/master/modules/UpdatePasswordOverride
https://www.softwaresavvyblog.com/post/liferay-overriding-core-jsps
I have created a repository with my working app, to show you how the code exactly looks like, it will print an "OVERRIDDEN" message to the top of the page when you visit:
http://localhost:8080/c/portal/update_password
My repository is located here:
https://github.com/peterpetrekanics/UpdatePwOverride7310

Here are my detailed steps I took:

1. Create a new Liferay workspace on your computer
   use blade init command from the terminal
   select dxp-7.3-sp1
   
2. Create an MVC Portlet project and remove the unnecessary files
   
3. Ensure that your build.gradle file contains this line:
   compileOnly group: "com.liferay.portal", name: "release.portal.api"
   otherwise your class will not detect the import: com.liferay.portal.deploy.hot.CustomJspBag;
   
4. Modify your class:
   add "implements CustomJspBag" after your class' name
   
5. Implement unimplemented methods (this is the part where using Liferay Developer Studio may come handy)
   I used the earlier mentioned blog resources for that.
   
6. Build the project and deploy it to a running 7.3 GA1 server
   
7. Visit this page, and the overridden message should appear:
   http://localhost:8080/c/portal/update_password
   
   I hope this helped, please let me know if you get other results