Liferay 7

Install liferay 7 in Eclipse Luna

Download liferay plugin update site( Liferay IDE 3.0.1-ga2 Archieved Update-site) from the below link

https://web.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-projects/liferay-ide

Open Eclipse Go to HelpàInstall New Software

Upload the liferay updated site in Archieve and enter Name as Liferay .

Click ok and continue the liferay installation .Select  the check box and finish it.

After liferay installation You can configure liferay server.

Goto àPreferences à Server àRuntime Environments àchoose Liferay 7.x  and  click next

After Browse…  click finish.

Start the server

Once server starts it will open URL as localhost:8080 in browser with default configurations.

If you want to change the DB change here (or) finish with default configuration and DB as hypersonic.

If everything goes well you can see the below screen.

Please upgrade to at least MySQL 5.6.4. The portal no longer supports older versions of MySQL.

After configuring mysql as DB you may get the above error in console if my sql version is below 5.6

So please try to upgrade the sql  version and try.