How dow I setup Archiva standalone to use Postgres? - postgresql

Question

Ok, I'm struggling to get Archiva 1.4 in standalone mode to use an existing Postgres db. Can anyone help me configure it?

Answer 1

Working with Olivier, this was my final, working db config:
<New id="users" class="org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.Resource">
<Arg>jdbc/users</Arg>
<Arg>
<New class="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSource">
<Set name="driverClassName">org.postgresql.Driver</Set>
<Set name="url">jdbc:postgresql://<server>/Archiva</Set>
<Set name="name">ArchivaApp</Set>
<Set name="username">...</Set>
<Set name="password">...</Set>
<!-- depends on your concurrent users numbers -->
<Set name="maxWait">10000</Set>
<Set name="removeAbandonedTimeout">10000</Set>
<Set name="maxActive">30</Set>
<Set name="initialSize">15</Set>
<Set name="removeAbandoned">true</Set>
<Set name="logAbandoned">true</Set>
<Set name="testOnBorrow">true</Set>
<!-- very rigourous sql query validation -->
<Set name="validationQuery">select 1</Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</New>
It was important to set the testOnBorrow parameter; some of the others don't matter.

Answer 2

Depends if you are using standalone or in a servlet container
1)Standalone have a look here
http://archiva.apache.org/docs/1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT/adminguide/standalone.html
replace com.mysql.jdbc.Driver with
your jdbc driver
and replace url jdbc:mysql://localhost/archiva
put your jdbc driver jar to lib directory
2) servlet container (it depends :-) )
for Apache Tomcat see
http://archiva.apache.org/docs/1.4-M4-SNAPSHOT/adminguide/webapp.html
put your jdbc driver jar to lib directory
change values
driverClassName="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver"
url="jdbc:derby:/path/to/database/users;create=true"
I have updated documentation here database section