How to connect Liferay with Mysql Database - database

Question

I am new in Liferay. I want to connect Liferay with MySQL database. I am using Liferay CE (Version? - came bundled with tomcat (6.0.29)). Please tell me the steps for this. Thank you

Answer 1

To build upon what has already been mentioned already, edit the file portal-ext.properties found in liferay-portal-xxx/tomcat-xxx/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes (if it doesn't exist already then create it).
Add these lines to it:
jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false
jdbc.default.username=<insert your mysql username>
jdbc.default.password=<insert your mysql password>
It also might be worth creating the lportal table in mysql.
mysql -u root -p <<< "create database lportal character set utf8;"
Download and extract the Liferay database scripts found here. Then run one, e.g.
mysql -u root -p < /path-to-the-script/create-mysql.sql
More information can be found in this Liferay Ubuntu Installation Guide (be weary as it's for an version but the database section is useful) and this Liferay Database Configuration Guide.

Answer 2

Paste the following line of code in portal-ext.properties:
jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false
jdbc.default.username=
jdbc.default.password=

Answer 3

Download Liferay CE
Install MySQL and create a database
Unzip liferay and create file if no exist portal.properties into liferay_home/tomcat-6.0.29/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/clases
Paste this:
jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/nameDatabase?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false
jdbc.default.username=name
jdbc.default.password=password
Run onm Eclipse, or Windows .bat/Linux .sh
i hope works for you

Answer 4

1)path--->home/karthik/Desktop/LiferaySetup/liferay-portal-6.1.1-ce-ga2/tomcat-7.0.27/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes---->create an empty doc with name as portal-ext.properties
paste the below code:
jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false
jdbc.default.username=root
jdbc.default.password=root
2)path--->/home/karthik/Desktop/LiferaySetup/liferay-portal-6.1.1-ce-ga2/tomcat-7.0.27/conf/Catalina/localhost-->Enter the below code inside ROOT.xml
<Context path="" crossContext="true">
<!-- JAAS -->
<!--<Realm
className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JAASRealm"
appName="PortalRealm"
userClassNames="com.liferay.portal.kernel.security.jaas.PortalPrincipal"
roleClassNames="com.liferay.portal.kernel.security.jaas.PortalRole"
/>-->
<!--
Uncomment the following to disable persistent sessions across reboots.
-->
<!--<Manager pathname="" />-->
<!--
Uncomment the following to not use sessions. See the property
"session.disabled" in portal.properties.
-->
<!--<Manager className="com.liferay.support.tomcat.session.SessionLessManagerBase" />-->
<Resource
name="jdbc/LiferayPool"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8"
username="root"
password="root"
maxActive="20"
/>
</Context>
If you follow the above 2 statements you can create easily