Appendix B. Configuring Liferay Portal with MySQL database
Liferay Portal comes with an embedded HSQLDB database, which isn’t meant to be used in production. Liferay Portal provides support for many production-ready databases that you can configure easily. In this appendix, we’ll look at how to configure Liferay Portal to use the MySQL database. If you want to use another database with Liferay Portal, refer to the Liferay Portal documentation.
Before you get started configuring MySQL with Liferay Portal, you need to install the following software on your machine:
- MySQL database server— Download the Community Edition of the database from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/.
- HeidiSQL client for MySQL— The screenshots in this appendix use the HeidiSQL ...
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