This page last changed on May 21, 2008 by donna@atlassian.com.

When you run the Crowd Setup Wizard, you will be asked to choose a database and provide configuration settings for that database. It will make things easier if you have created the database and deployed the database driver before you start the Setup Wizard.

Follow the instructions below to set up MySQL (5.0.37 and later) for Crowd.

1. Configure MySQL

  1. Create a database user which Crowd will connect as (e.g. crowduser).
  2. Create a latin1 encoded database for Crowd to store data in (e.g. crowddb).
    create database crowddb character set latin1;
    

    At present, Crowd does not support utf-8 encoding for MySQL. If you would like MySQL utf-8 support, please vote on this issue.

  3. Ensure that the user has permission to connect to the database, and create and populate tables.

2. Copy the MySQL driver to your application server

  1. Download the latest MySQL Connector/J JDBC driver.
  2. Add the MySQL JDBC driver jar (mysql-connector-java-3.x.x-bin.jar) to the common/lib/ directory. NOTE: Do not place the Debug Driver (mysql-connector-java-3.x.x-bin-g.jar) on the CLASSPATH as this can cause issues. (JRA-8674).

Next Steps

Complete the Crowd installation, then start Crowd and run the Setup Wizard as described in the Installation Guide.

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