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1. First, Locate and copy the necessary jdbc driver for your database into <frevvo-home>\tomcat\lib.
2. Edit the file <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost\frevvo.xml
3. You will see two data source definitions for each database type. name="jdbc/frevvoDS" is the form submissions database. name="jdbc/userDS" is the user database. See the sample below of the above sample of the HSQLDB data source in the frevvo.xml file.
4. Comment out the pair of the definitions for the default database (HSQLDB) using the <!-- --> comment characters. The entire section must be commented out:

<!--
  HSQLDB Resource 
       <Resource auth="Container"
                type="javax.sql.DataSource"
                factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
                name="jdbc/frevvoDS"
                driverClassName="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"
                username="sa"                password=""
                url="jdbc:hsqldb:file:${catalina.home}/../data/db/forms"
                maxActive="200"
                maxIdle="20"
                maxWait="10000"
                validationQuery="select 1 from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SYSTEM_USERS"
                testOnBorrow="true"
                testOnIdle="true"
                timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="10000"
                removeAbandoned="true"
                logAbandoned="true"/>
        <Resource auth="Container"
                type="javax.sql.DataSource"
                factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
                name="jdbc/userDS"
                driverClassName="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"
                username="sa"
                password=""
                url="jdbc:hsqldb:file:${catalina.home}/../data/db/users"                
                maxActive="200"
                maxIdle="20"
                maxWait="10000"
                validationQuery="select 1 from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SYSTEM_USERS"
                testOnBorrow="true"
                testOnIdle="true"
                timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="10000"
                removeAbandoned="true"
                logAbandoned="true"/>
 -->

Next, uncomment the pair of definitions for your database. Ex: if you are using SQL server, uncomment the definition for SQLSERVER Resource. Save the changes.

 <!--
                SQLSERVER Resource  
   -->
  
          <Resource auth="Container"
                factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
                maxActive="200"
                maxIdle="20"
                maxWait="10000"
                validationQuery="select 1"
                testOnBorrow="true"
                testOnIdle="true"
                timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="10000"
                removeAbandoned="true"
                logAbandoned="true"
                name="jdbc/frevvoDS"
                driverClassName="net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbcx.JtdsDataSource"
                username="root"
                password=""
                type="javax.sql.DataSource"
                url="jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/frevvoSubmissions"/>
          <Resource auth="Container"
                factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
                maxActive="200"
                maxIdle="20"
                maxWait="10000"
                validationQuery="select 1"
                testOnBorrow="true"
                testOnIdle="true"
                timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="10000"
                removeAbandoned="true"
                logAbandoned="true"
                name="jdbc/userDS"
                driverClassName="net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbcx.JtdsDataSource"
                username="root"
                password=""
                type="javax.sql.DataSource"
                url="jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/users"/>

Configure the LiveForms Live Forms submissions database

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1. Locate the frevvoDS data source url parameter.url="jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/frevvo"/>. You can change the name "frevvo" to whatever you wish, " for example. But it must match the database name you create in your SQL server. See verify connection Url below.
2. Create a utf8 encoded database ""frevvo" (assuming you left the url parameter database name as the default) in your SQL server
3. In the  installation locate the script <frevvo-home>/data/sql/forms-<database type>.sql. Ex: for mySQL the script is named <frevvo-home>/data/sql/forms-mysql5.sql
4. Run that script in your "" database. That will create all the tables required to persist submissions
5. Set the frevvoDS data source parameters username and password to a user that has write permissions to the "" database.
6. The submissions database setup is now complete.

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Configuration of the connection Url is key to successfully connection connect the  server to your database. Consult your DBA to assist with connection issues.

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As of SQL 2000, Microsoft SQL allows installation of multiple SQL named instances. If your SQL server was installed this way you must use the instance parameter. For example if you database instance was named xyzzy:

{<url>jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://e00sca:59377/frevvo;instance=xyzzy</url>

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If you are trying a different database type and do not see an example in frevvo.xml for  your database, you can create a new data source entry. Hibernate supports the following dialects however  has only been certified to run with a subset of these databases. For additional dialects see Hibernate documentation. Database Setup

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•  org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.Sybase11Dialect

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Via the configuration file:

[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8
default-collation=utf8_generalunicode_cicii

Via the mySQL cmd tool:

SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0;
SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='TRADITIONAL';
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ALTER DATABASE frevvo CHARACTER SET ALTER DATABASE frevvo CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
ALTER DATABASE users CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_generalunicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE formsubmission CONVERT TO `frevvo16089`.`formsubmission` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_generalunicode_ci; --
SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS;
SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS;

Run the SQL Scripts

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Run the SQL Scripts

What does it mean to run the SQL scripts? The *.sql file is a text file with SQL statements to be executed by the SQL server. Here is one ways way to run a an SQL script for a mySql database to create the tables needed by  on a windows box.

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• SQL Server JDBC Driver
• Oracle
• DB2
• Mysql

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• MySQL - 5.1.11 or later is recommended to resolve Tomcat memory leak issues.

Once you have the driver you need, copy it to <frevvo-home>/tomcat/lib.

The <frevvo-home>\tomcat\logs\frevvo.log file will report an error if you do not copy the JDBC driver to lib directory. The verbiage may differ depending on the driver and database. For example, the error for MySQL is "Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver". Starting without the correct jdbc driver displays an HTTP 404 error. Coying the correct jdbc driver to the <frevvo-home>/tomcat/lib directory should resolve the issue.

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It is also appropriate to copy the driver into any location that is in the CLASSPATH of your servlet container. In a tomcat installation another location would be <CATALINA_HOME>/lib.

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