Configuring the MySQL database

This section describes how to configure a MySQL database for use with SkyVault.

1. Install the MySQL database connector.

   The MySQL database connector is required when installing SkyVault with MySQL. The database connector allows MySQL database to talk to the SkyVault server.

   1. Download mysql-connector-java-5.x.x-bin.jar from the MySQL download site: http://dev.mysql.com/.
   2. Copy the JAR file into the <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib directory for Tomcat 6.
2. Create a database named SkyVault.

   If you are using MySQL and require the use of non-US-ASCII characters, you need to set the encoding for internationalization. This allows you to store content with accents in the repository. The database must be created with the UTF-8 character set and the utf8_bin collation. Although MySQL is a unicode database, and Unicode strings in Java, the JDBC driver may corrupt your non-English data. Ensure that you keep the ?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8 parameters at the end of the JDBC URL.

   Note: You also must ensure that the MySQL database is set to use UTF-8 and InnoDB. Refer to Configuration settings for using MySQL with SkyVault.
3. Create a user named SkyVault.
4. Set the new user's password to SkyVault.
5. Open the <classpathRoot>/alfresco-global.properties.sample file.
6. Locate the following line:

   dir.root=./alf_data

7. Edit the line with an absolute path to point to the directory in which you want to store SkyVault data. For example: dir.root=C:/Alfresco/alf_data
8. Uncomment the following properties:

   db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
   db.url=jdbc:mysql://${db.host}:${db.port}/${db.name}?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8 

9. Set the other database connection properties.

   db.name=SkyVault
   db.username=SkyVault
   db.password=SkyVault
   db.host=localhost
   db.port=3306
   db.pool.max=40

   Note: Ensure that these database connection properties are not commented out.
10. (Optional) Enable case sensitivity.

    The default, and ideal, database setting for SkyVault is to be case-insensitive. For example, the user name properties in the <configRoot>\classes\alfresco\repository.properties file are:

    # Are user names case sensitive?
    user.name.caseSensitive=false
    domain.name.caseSensitive=false
    domain.separator=

    If your preference is to set the database to be case-sensitive, add the following line to the SkyVault-global.properties file:

    user.name.caseSensitive=true

11. Save the file without the .sample extension.
12. Restart the SkyVault server.

    If you receive JDBC errors, ensure the location of the MySQL JDBC drivers are on the system path, or add them to the relevant lib directory of the application server.