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→2. Configure your database connection information
We reccommend MySQL for use with Umlaut. ( SQLite3 won't work, unless you figure out a way to compile it with concurrency support). Create your databases in MySQL. We recommend making sure they are set to UTF8 char encoding. (eg, (CREATE DATABASE 'Name' DATABASE DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8). Don't create any tables in your databases yet, that will be done automatically. Do fill out your umlaut_config/database.yml file to point at the right place.
For some search functions (manually entered journal name or citation), Umlaut can take advantage of uses a direct db connection to your SFX instance. We reccommend this for maximum functionality, but it's not required. If you have control of your SFX instance and would like to enable this, you You should use the MySQL utility to create a new user in the SFX MySQL instance, which is granted only select permissions to the SFX databases. Then, you can fill out your SFX direct to db connection information in config/umlaut_config/database.yml. If you can't do this, or don't want to do this now, talk to Jonathan, it may be possible to set up other functionality. Umlaut should still (mostly) workused to support a bulk export from SFX instead of a live db connection, but that functionality has atrophied. It can in theory be brought back if needed.
== 3. Create your database tables ==