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WIKI-TOOLKIT-SETUPDB(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation WIKI-TOOLKIT-SETUPDB(1p)

NAME

wiki-toolkit-setupdb - Set up a database storage backend for Wiki::Toolkit.

SYNOPSIS

  # Set up or update the storage backend, leaving any existing data
  # intact. Useful for upgrading from old versions of Wiki::Toolkit to
  # newer ones with more backend features.
  wiki-toolkit-setupdb --type postgres
                       --name mywiki \
                       --user wiki  \
                       --pass wiki \
                       --host 'db.example.com'
  # Clear out any existing data and set up a fresh backend from scratch.
  wiki-toolkit-setupdb --type postgres
                       --name mywiki \
                       --user wiki  \
                       --pass wiki  \
                       --force-preclear

DESCRIPTION

Takes three mandatory arguments:

The database type. Should be one of 'postgres', 'mysql' and 'sqlite'.
The database name.
The user that connects to the database. It must have permission to create and drop tables in the database.

two optional arguments:

The user's database password.
The hostname of the machine the database server is running on (omit for local databases).

and one optional flag:

By default, this script will leave any existing data alone. To force that to be cleared out first, pass the "--force-preclear" flag.

AUTHOR

Kake Pugh (kake@earth.li).

COPYRIGHT

     Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Kake Pugh.  All Rights Reserved.
     Copyright (C) 2006 the Wiki::Toolkit team. All Rights Reserved.

This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Wiki::Toolkit

2021-01-04 perl v5.32.0