All of Fedora's content and metadata are stored on disk in an OCFL storage root. For performance reasons, Fedora maintains a cache of system and user metadata in a rebuildable database. For quickly spinning up Fedora in a testing / experimental context, a default H2 database is available by default. However, for production installations, it is recommended to use a MariaDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL database. Below are the steps to use MySQL or PostgreSQL, as well as Docker instructions if you choose to run your database in a Docker container.
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Docker-based Database Setup
The following instructions detail how to run your database in a Docker container.
MariaDB
The following instructions use the database username of "fcrepo-user" and password of "fcrepo-pw". You will want to change these to something more secure.
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docker run --name f6-mariadb -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root-pw -e MYSQL_DATABASE=fcrepo -e MYSQL_USER=fcrepo-user -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=fcrepo-pw -p 3306:3306 -d mariadb:10.5.3 ..when done with the database: docker stop f6-mariadb docker rm f6-mariadb |
MariaDB CLI Client
To connect via the command line with the above database, the following command may be used:
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-Dfcrepo.db.url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/fcrepo -Dfcrepo.db.user=fcrepo-user -Dfcrepo.db.password=fcrepo-pw |
PostgreSQL
The following instructions use the database username of "fcrepo-user" and password of "fcrepo-pw". You will want to change these to something more secure.
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docker run --name f6-postgres -e POSTGRES_USER=fcrepo-user -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=fcrepo-pw -e POSTGRES_DB=fcrepo -p 5432:5432 -d postgres:12.3 ..when done with the database: docker stop f6-postgres docker rm f6-postgres |
PostgreSQL CLI Client
To connect via the command line with the above database, the following command may be used:
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-Dfcrepo.db.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/fcrepo -Dfcrepo.db.user=fcrepo-user -Dfcrepo.db.password=fcrepo-pw |
MySQL
The following instructions use the database username of "fcrepo-user" and password of "fcrepo-pw". You will want to change these to something more secure.
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docker run --name f6-mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root-pw -e MYSQL_DATABASE=fcrepo -e MYSQL_USER=fcrepo-user -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=fcrepo-pw -p 3306:3306 -d mysql:8.0 ..when done with the database: docker stop f6-mysql docker rm f6-mysql |
MySQL CLI Client
To connect via the command line with the above database, the following command may be used:
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-Dfcrepo.db.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/fcrepo -Dfcrepo.db.user=fcrepo-user -Dfcrepo.db.password=fcrepo-pw |
Native Database Setup
MariaDB
- Install an instance of MariaDB and create a database called
fcrepo
and a user account that can access it - Run Fedora with the following
JAVA_OPTS
:
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Note, the fcrepo
database must be manually created, but the tables will be automatically created.
PostgreSQL
- Install an instance of PostgreSQL and create a database called
fcrepo
and a user account that can access it - Run Fedora with the following
JAVA_OPTS
:
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Note, the fcrepo
database must be manually created, but the tables will be automatically created.
MySQL
- Install an instance of MySQL and create a database called
fcrepo
and a user account that can access it - Run Fedora with the following
JAVA_OPTS
:
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Note, the fcrepo
database must be manually created, but the tables will be automatically created.
Database Initialization
MySQL and MariaDB
To create a new database and user in MySQL, assuming a username of user1
and a password of xyz
:
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$ mysql -u root -p > create database fcrepo; > create user 'user1'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'xyz'; > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON fcrepo.* to 'user1'@'localhost'; > \q |
PostgreSQL
To create a new database and user in PostgreSQL, assuming a username of user1
and a password of xyz
:
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