MySQL Configuration
Before you start
- Make sure that you have set utf8 as default/server-character-set in your MySQL configuration (my.cnf) before you start the installation process of OpenMeetings!
- make sure MySQL is listening on TCP/IP connections!
To verify if MySQL connection is working: OpenMeetings will automatically create all tables in the database and all tables should have utf8 as encoding/collation! - If you encounter issues, you can drop the db and then run the web based installer again
Steps todo
- You need to download the JConnector from Maven central https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/mysql/mysql-connector-java and place it into:
$OM_HOME/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/lib/
- Run OpenMeetings and goto the web-based installer:
https://localhost:5443/openmeetings/install
Or Command line installer - After installation is complete please make sure additional parameter
serverTimezone=
was added to the connection string.
MySQL Sample Configuration
There is a sample configuration for MySQL that ships with every release in:
/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/mysql_persistence.xml