How to access Alfresco database via url? - database

Question

in my alfresco-global.properties file it says:
db.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/${db.name}
I want to know how to access this database in the browser?

Answer 1

The default PostgreSQL client application is psql. If you can't install this or if you want to use a GUI client, the PostgreSQL community maintains a list of GUI clients.
Every client either asks you for credentials or will present you a form where you can enter them.
The JDBC URL from your question is
jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/${db.name}
My guess is that db.name is equal to alfresco. So the complete JDBC URL would be
jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/alfresco
If you have installed Alfresco only your local computer, this would be the JDBC URL to use with a client that uses JDBC. If you have installed Alfresco on a different computer, you would have to replace localhost with the host name of this computer.

Answer 2

To connect to alfresco data base you can use any Postgresql client, by the way, alfresco install pgAdmin client.
To use this client you shoud open {alfresco_install_directory}/postgresql/bin/pgAdmin3, add new server and type database credentials(host, port ...) from alfresco-global.properties.
Edit
This is an example of configuration, you can find all what you need in alfresco-global.properties.

Answer 3

In case you have made the default installation(postgresql), you cant.
If you have switched the database to mysql you could use something like php admin or similar. Hope it helps.