2.2 Database Configuration

This page describes how to create the VCL MySQL database and import the VCL database schema.

Prerequisites

You should have mysql server 5.x installed. If mysql server is not installed:

yum install mysql-server -y
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on
/sbin/service mysqld start

Your host based firewall (IPTables) should be configured to allow traffic from the web server and management server to connect to TCP port 3306 (mysqld).

start the mysql command line client by running
```
mysql
```
create a database in mysql named for use with VCL
```
CREATE DATABASE vcl;
```
create a user with SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges on the database you just created
NOTE: Replace vcluserpassword with your own password!
```
GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON vcl.* TO 'vcluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'vcluserpassword';
```
exit from the mysql command line client:
```
exit
```
locate vcl.sql file
The vcl.sql file should be contained in the release artifact you should have downloaded already. After extracting it, look in the mysql directory.
import vcl.sql file into database
```
mysql vcl < vcl.sql
```