Hello George, I just saw your reply. I've been battling with this. Maxim has been trying to help with an OM3 installation. All I'm getting after changing the persistence file and adding a new DB is an internal error.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:19 AM, George Kirkham <gkirk...@co2crc.com.au>wrote: > Lee, > > > > Openmeetings will use the current database, which you need to DROP if you > are going to keep the same database name. > > > > If you want to have two installations so you can compare between them, > when you are installing the second instance you can easily change the name > of the "openmeetings database that you are creating and the name of the > database in the persistence.xml file. Of course you would have to install > openmeetings into folder by another name, this is not something that I have > ever bothered to do, but I believe would work. > > > > *Step 4 - Install MySQL and configure OpenMeetings database* > > apt-get install mysql-server > > mysql -u root -p > > CREATE DATABASE openmeetings DEFAULT CHARACTER SET 'utf8'; > > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON openmeetings. * TO 'openmeetings'@'localhost' > IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword' WITH GRANT OPTION; > > > > vi > /usr/lib/red5/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml > > Change the Username and Password to those you created in MySQL. > > *Note*: if you want OpenMeetings to use an external database or your > MySQL is listening to a network address and not 127.0.0.1, then you can > replace "localhost" with your MySQL Server's IP address. > > , Url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/openmeetings?... > > , Username=*openmeetings* > > , Password=*yourpassword*"/> > > > > ============================================ > > *Step 4 - Install MySQL and configure OpenMeetings database* > > apt-get install mysql-server > > mysql -u root -p > > CREATE DATABASE openmeetings2 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET 'utf8'; > > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON openmeetings2. * TO 'openmeetings'@'localhost' > IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword' WITH GRANT OPTION; > > > > vi /usr/lib/red5/webapps/openmeetings2 > /WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml > > Change the Username and Password to those you created in MySQL. > > *Note*: if you want OpenMeetings to use an external database or your > MySQL is listening to a network address and not 127.0.0.1, then you can > replace "localhost" with your MySQL Server's IP address. > > , Url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/openmeetings2?... > > , Username=*openmeetings* > > , Password=*yourpassword*"/> > > > > Thanks, > > > > George Kirkham > > > > > > *From:* Lee Saunders [mailto:leesenglishless...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Sunday, 23 February 2014 12:13 AM > *To:* user@openmeetings.apache.org > *Subject:* Are side-by-side installations possible? > > > > Hello, > > > > I am running OM 2.1.1, but would like to see how 2.2 compares. > > If I unpack 2.2 into a new folder on my drive (windows desktop), will OM > create a new MySQL database or overwrite the existing one? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Lee. >
