The problem is that I am unable to get Joomla to create the Mysql database. It is saying that I may not have enough permissions to create a new database. I know how to create a database on a typical web host server, but not finding the same set up on the FastStack desktop implementation. Joomla wants me to make the database, but how do I do that? I suspect the Faststack is set-up only to support Sugar and is not expandable to add more databases. In which case, I would need to deploy a full version of Mysql on my desktop? And maybe a full version of Apache? Or maybe better to find a FastStack implementation of Joomla, as well?
How to do that, if so? THANKS!
What mysql account are you using when you setup the mysql in the install app? If you use the root user you should have full permissions. You could also just use the database that is already there. All Joomla tables have a prefix of jos_ so should not cause conflict with sugar tables.
Related
I have built a Joomla site for a client on a development server. It soon needs migrating to the client's Live site, which will mean a URL change as well as a physical server change.
I'm new to Joomla, but having worked a lot on WordPress previously I know it's a piece of cake to migrate one WP site to another, especially with the dozen or so available plugins.
However, this doesn't appear to be so easy on Joomla. I have searched for the best practice to achieve this with Joomla 3 but cannot find what I need.
Does anyone have a suggestion for this?
There are in fact a two ways to achieve this and they are quite easy.
1. The first one is the manual way, that is:
Copy the files of your local joomla installation and upload them to
your server
Export your local database and import it on your server.
Edit the configuration.php file to your new server credentials -db
name, db user, db server etc.
2. The second one is through the akeeba backup component.
In this case you create a backup and then restore it on the remote
server. Detailed info
here.
After uploading your remote site you are advised to follow these
guidelines
to secure your installation.
I need to make a development version of a cakePHP app with its own db so that a developer can work on it without disturbing the current users.
I thought it would be simple, I just copied the entire director /project to /project_dev and then copied the DB "project_db" to "project_db_dev". Then I went into /project_dev/config/database.php and changed the db to "project_db_dev".
When I went to see what I had done, I saw the app was still connecting to the same db, as if I'd changed nothing. I realized that the original folder name was referenced in /app/webroot/.htaccess so do I need to find/replace all instances of that folder name?
What steps should I follow to duplicate an existing cakePHP app?
You need to setup some kind of development lifecycle.
Generally speaking the developer shouldn't be doing any development on the server. The best way to handle it is locally using a stack of some kind such as Lamp (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP) switch out linux with other OS's. There are multiple cloud solution to these environments to such as Koding.com
Using something like Git for version control the developer can develop locally then push the code through to the server after is being thoroughly tested locally or on a dev server or some kind.
Keeping Dev work and Live work away from each other is key.
Could do with a bit more information.
If both databases are hosted on the same server and you have permission to access them both with the same user then all you have to do is change the name of the database in your database.php
If not you will also have to update the IP and any other additional settings port etc.
If you are still having troubles email me simpsond1988#gmail.com
When I was working on my project (asp.net mvc 3) before uploading it, I needed to make it refer to an already existing mysql database. There was/is no option of moving or cloning that database, and I had to add a block of code to my C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config file for it to be made compatible.
How do I make it work on appharbor without moving my database?
You should be able to use mysqldump to move your data to a database running in the context of the AppHarbor MySQL add-on. Here's a guide.
If your current database is publicly accessible it should also work if you configure your AppHarbor app to use that. If you need to open a firewall, you can find AppHarbor app server IPs here.
Let's say I have written an application in Java that is programmed to use a MySQL database. The user of the Java application needs to have MySQL on their machine in order for the application to work.
What can I do to make sure that the user has the correct version of MySQL on their machine and if they don't then install it so they can properly run the Java application?
Note: I had sent some links to setup Java and MySQL for a business analyst of a program I am working on and he was not able to decipher the madness that is installing MySQL. He is not computer technical and wouldn't even know what to enter into the forms of the MySQL installation. What could I do to ease this task for the end user?
Update: Unfortunately, for security reasons that are a requirement for this project we have to use MySQL and not SQLite or Derby. Unless there is a way to make sure that no one deletes the SQLite database file or switches it out for another one. We need to guarantee data integrity and I find that using MySQL gives me the best chance at doing that.
What is the target platform?
Assuming something UNIXish, you can either:
1) Include a shell script to download, install, and setup mysql. Complicated, but not impossible.
2) Use an embedded Derby database. On my current project, we have a version where the user can just "download and go." That version uses an embedded Derby database that writes to a file, similar to hsqldb or sqlite3. Any of those are fine options.
The easiest thing for the user is to embed the database in the Java application. No setup required. There's MySQL OEM (not free), so you might consider switching to SQLite instead, which is the de facto standard embedded database. (See this question for more on that.)
Is it possible to use MySQL local? I mean NOT at a server. I read a lot about MySQL on a webserver with PHP, Joomla etc.
I want to program a piece of software and use a database local to store results. Can I use MySQL for that?
If so, is ther anyware on the net a good tutorial how to do that?
You can install MySQL on your workstation, it doesn't need to be on a "server" per se. You still need to use something that can connect to it. From a Java application, for instance, you'd use JDBC; from .Net, you'd probably use ADO.Net; etc.
As far as I know, it will still want to have its server process (mysqld) running and for you to connect to that process via sockets and the like; there's no standard in-process version that I'm aware of. (The server can be listening only on the local interface, though.) There are several alternatives if you want in-process stuff, such as SQLite and HSQLDB.
Of course, if you're feeling really enterprising, there's the open source version of MySQL, which means you could compile it into your app (if you're using C or something that can link to it), but I suspect that's going rather too far. :-)
Yes, works like a charm for this.
Mysqls homepage has lots of info for this.
use SQLite. it is a popular embedded database.
It can be deployed via XCopy and no server installs.
But it can only be used locally. i.e if you later on decide to allow remote access, then you will need to migrate it to MySQL or other databases.
Try xampplite - it will painlessly install MySQL for you (on your local windows machine) as well as apache, php and a few other web apps if you need them.
If you don't want to install a server, you may be interested into Sqlite! It's the most widely deployed embedded database, and it's Public Domain.
http://www.sqlite.org/
Firebird is also an alternative. It's fully ACID-compliant and runs under the Interbase Public License.
http://www.firebirdsql.org/