MySQL hostname for Omeka S?

Scout_Calvert · October 4, 2017, 7:09pm

I’m trying to install Omeka-S using these instructions under “Installing from released zip file”:

omeka/omeka-s/blob/develop/README.md

# Omeka S

Omeka S is a web publication system for universities, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. It consists of a local network of independently curated exhibits sharing a collaboratively built pool of items, media, and their metadata.

See the [user manual](https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual) for more information.

## Installation

### Requirements
* Linux
* [Apache](https://www.apache.org/) (with [AllowOverride](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#allowoverride) set to "All" and [mod_rewrite](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html) enabled)
* [MySQL](https://www.mysql.com/) 5.6.4+ (or [MariaDB](https://mariadb.org/) 10.0.5+)
* [PHP](https://www.php.net/) 7.4+ (latest stable version preferred, with [PDO](http://php.net/manual/en/intro.pdo.php), [pdo_mysql](http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.php), and [xml](http://php.net/manual/en/intro.xml.php) extensions installed)

### Generating thumbnails
* The default library for generating thumbnails is [ImageMagick](https://imagemagick.org/index.php), at least version 6.7.5. Older versions will not correctly produce thumbnails. For alternative thumbnail options, see the [user manual](https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/configuration/#thumbnails).

### Installing from GitHub

1. Make sure [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) and [npm](https://nodejs.org/) are installed

This file has been truncated. show original

I created a user and databse using the MySQL database wizard tool in cpanel, and I’ve found the config/database.ini file to edit. I just don’t know what the host name should be. Is it supposed to be localhost?

At any rate, it’s not working, and this is my first stop for troubleshooting.

timmmmyboy · October 4, 2017, 7:11pm

It would indeed be localhost for our servers. Additionally you’ll want to make sure your database username and database name include the prefix, typically your cPanel user (so if your cPanel username is towens usually a database name will take the format towens_omekas)

If that’s not working let us know what error you’re getting and we can probably be of more help.

Scout_Calvert · October 19, 2017, 12:53pm

Thanks and sorry to delay my reply. I had all the settings right, I just needed to have quotation marks around them. For other people reading this, that meant it needed to look like this, with the first 3 of course being things I set using the MySQL Database Wizard.

user = “user_name”
password = “aPassword”
dbname = “a_database”
host = “localhost”
;port =
;unix_socket =
;log_path =

katiehartraft · July 15, 2020, 9:46pm

katiehartraft · July 15, 2020, 10:28pm