Alfresco-community-4.2.c + MySQL installation on Linux

[samudaya]

Hi,

I am currently using Alfresco community edition (version 4.2.c) on Ubuntu Linux Server (64 bit) and using PostgreSQL as the database. However I would like to install Alfresco-Community-4.2.C on Linux (Ubuntu 64 bit) with MySQL community edition.

<em>In Wikipedia shows;
  Multiple Database support: MySQL, PostgreSQL (Community Edition), Oracle Database, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server (Enterprise Edition).</em>

However MySQL option is not available in installation process. Do I have to rebuild from source code to install with MySQL? Or can I use defaults installation file and do this? If anybody did this please give me the relevant installation docs or resources.


Thank you very much for your kind feed backs.

Best Regards
Samu

[afaust]

Hello,

as far as I know (I personally don't use the installers), Alfreso stopped to ship MySQL as an option due to licensing changes following acquisition by Oracle. If you want to use MySQL, you'll have to perform a standard MySQL installation on your own via APT (on Ubuntu) or other means, either before or after installing Alfresco. You don't have to rebuild Alfresco, only change the configuration in alfresco-global.properties to reflect the choice of MySQL, and add the MySQL JDBC driver JAR to the classpath of Tomcat.

Regards
Axel