These instructions provide additional steps for setting up Pootle with MySQL.
You should read the full installation instructions in order to install Pootle.
Use the mysql command to create the user and database:
$ mysql -u root -p # You will be asked for the MySQL root password to log in
> CREATE DATABASE pootledb CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON pootledb.* TO pootle@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'secret';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
In addition to the system packages set out in the general installation requirements you will also require the MySQL client development headers in order to build the Python bindings, e.g. on a Debian-based system:
$ sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
Once you have set up and activated your virtual environment, you will need to install the MySQL bindings.
You can do so as follows:
(env) $ pip install MySQL-python
When initializing your configuration you can specify params to set up your database, e.g.:
(env) $ pootle init --db mysql --db-name pootledb --db-user pootle
This will create a configuration file to connect to a MySQL database named
pootledb hosted on localhost as the user pootle. Please see the
init command for all of the available options.
You will most likely want to edit your Pootle configuration (default location:
~/.pootle/pootle.conf) to set your password.
Please note that Pootle uses django-transaction-hooks backends for
connecting to the database. For MySQL the correct ENGINE to set for the backend is:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'transaction_hooks.backends.mysql',
...
}
}
MySQL terminates idle connections after wait_timeout
seconds. Thus setting CONN_MAX_AGE to a lower
value will be fine (it defaults to 0). Persistent connections where
CONN_MAX_AGE is None can’t be used with
MySQL.
To learn more please check Django’s docs on persistent connections and connection management.
DATABASES = {
'default': {
...
'CONN_MAX_AGE': 0,
...
}
}