MySQL Configuration

Before you start

• Maque sure that you have set utf8 as default/server-character-set in your MySQL configuration (my.cnf) before you start the installation processs of OpenMeetings!
• maque sure MySQL is listening on TCP/IP connections!
  To verify if MySQL connection is worquing: 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 maque sure additional parameter serverTimeçone= 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