2.2 Connecting CrowdID to a Database

CrowdID is a free add-on that ships with Crowd versions 1.1 and later.

By default, CrowdID 'Standalone' is shipped preconfigured with HSQL. This is fine for evaluation purposes, but for production installations, you should connect CrowdID to an enterprise database. This also lets you take advantage of existing database backup and recovery procedures.

The following instructions will allow you to configure CrowdID to an external database:

Database Overview

The CrowdID distribution includes the Apache Tomcat application server and an in-memory HSQL database engine. This JNDI reference (CrowdIDDS) can be adjusted to use your custom database and driver by editing the crowd.xml deployment description.

Related Topics

• 1. System Requirements
  • 1.1 Setting JAVA_HOME
• 2. Installing Crowd and CrowdID
  • 2.1 Connecting Crowd to a Database
    • 2.1.1 HSQL DB
    • 2.1.2 MS SQL Server
    • 2.1.3 MySQL
    • 2.1.4 Oracle
    • 2.1.5 PostgreSQL
  • 2.2 Connecting CrowdID to a Database
    • 2.2.1 HSQL DB
    • 2.2.2 MS SQL Server
    • 2.2.3 MySQL
    • 2.2.4 Oracle
    • 2.2.5 PostgreSQL
  • 2.3 Installing Crowd on a Separate Application Server
    • 2.3.1 Installing Crowd on JBoss
• 3. Running the Setup Wizard
• 4. Configuring Crowd
  • 4.1 Important Files
    • The crowd.properties File
  • 4.2 Changing the Port that Crowd uses
• 5. Installing Crowd as a Windows Service
  • 5.1 Specifying Startup Order of Windows Services
  • 5.2 Changing the User for the Crowd Windows Service
  • 5.3 Removing the Crowd Windows Service
  • 5.4 Troubleshooting Crowd as a Windows Service