Configuring PostgreSQL

Database creation

Create a database and user

DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS okmdb;
CREATE USER openkm WITH PASSWORD '*secret*';
CREATE DATABASE okmdb WITH OWNER openkm ENCODING 'UTF8';

Or from the command line.

$ createuser --pwprompt openkm
$ createdb --owner=openkm --encoding=UTF8 okmdb

More info at:

Configure your openkm.properties

This configuration property should be set before creating the database. Once the database has been initialized, do not modify it because doing so can damage your installation.

If your OpenKM installation has already been configured with another database, you can't switch to another database by changing this property.

Edit the file $TOMCAT_HOME/openkm.properties.

The supported dialects are:

com.openkm.db.dialect.PostgreSQL94Dialect
com.openkm.db.dialect.PostgreSQL92Dialect
com.openkm.db.dialect.PostgreSQL9Dialect

hibernate.dialect=com.openkm.db.dialect.PostgreSQL92Dialect
hibernate.hbm2ddl=create-only

Configure Tomcat datasources

Edit the file $TOMCAT_HOME/openkm.properties and enable the resource named jdbc/OpenKMDS.

spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/okmdb
spring.datasource.username=openkm
spring.datasource.password=*secret*
spring.datasource.validationQuery=SELECT 1

Configure the values of the following attributes: