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| author | Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> | 2013-10-01 18:39:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> | 2013-10-04 14:15:14 +0800 |
| commit | a3b7a8023d1493cb57a303dd8420960b230670aa (patch) | |
| tree | db9a73cbe39d678d6dbce93bef042efb6cc85710 /docs | |
| parent | 4e7b62c51b958acad9d87b435571a22113a43d35 (diff) | |
| download | patchwork-a3b7a8023d1493cb57a303dd8420960b230670aa.tar patchwork-a3b7a8023d1493cb57a303dd8420960b230670aa.tar.gz | |
docs: update MySQL documentation bits
The MySQL documentation bits where missing a few important details for
installation setup to succeed like:
- having proper python-mysqldb support
- overriding the DATABASE_ENGINE to "mysql" for django to succeed in the
"syncdb" operation
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/INSTALL | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index cb71cdd..28f85d5 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ in brackets): * django >= 1.2 * A webserver (apache) * mod_python or flup - * A database server (postgresql) + * A database server (postgresql, mysql) + * relevant python modules for the database server (e.g: python-mysqldb) 1. Database setup @@ -64,6 +65,17 @@ in brackets): > CREATE USER 'www-data'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>'; > CREATE USER 'nobody'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>'; + Once that is done, you need to tell Django about the new Database + settings, using local_settings.py (see below) to override the defaults + in settings.py: + + DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql' + DATABASE_NAME = 'patchwork' + DATABASE_USER = 'root' + DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'my_secret_root_password' + DATABSE_HOST = 'localhost' + DATABASE_PORT = '' + 2. Django setup Set up some initial directories in the patchwork base directory: |