Issue #9141 has been updated by John Warburton.
Per my database instructions, I'm using the root user for the MySQL database in
database.yaml, but creating the database as the puppet user so I have no root
dependencies:
# Creating new database:
# puppet@engncfm001% mysql_install_db --user=puppet
--datadir=/local/puppet/dashboard/db
# puppet@engncfm001% mysqld_safe --user=puppet
--datadir=/local/puppet/dashboard/db &
# puppet@engncfm001%
/opt/local/pkgs/mysql-5.1.50/bin/mysql_secure_installation
# Set root password to 'rootpasswd'
#
# puppet@engncfm001% vi config/database.yml
#
#production:
# database: dashboard
# username: root
# password: rootpasswd
# encoding: utf8
# adapter: mysql
#
#puppet@engncfm001% rake RAILS_ENV=production db:create
#puppet@engncfm001% rake RAILS_ENV=production db:migrate
I found the "old" documentation of using rake much easier, and was surprised to
see them missing and replace with command line options when everything else was
a rake call, with a footnote to the rake db:create. I think they should have
equal billing
Also, the document makes no mention of a **recommended ‘dashboard’ user** for
the database, apart from the sql to create the dashboard user. It does say
**Choose database and user names that make sense to you, and a secure
password**. Maybe that needs clarification
As for finding the footnote - much of the puppet documentation doesn't use
footnotes, so it comes across as unexpected (I know Daniel Pittman can't help
himself to have at least 2 footnotes per email - is this his influence :-) -
its not clear that clicking on the footnote will give you the rake commands -
which IMHO are easier, and consistent with the rest of the dashboard
installation process
I use Mozilla Firefox 3.6 at work, and clicking on the footnote link, I drop to
the bottom of the page, and it takes some searching to see between the massive
footer (advertising, jobs etc) and the Navigation section to spot the smaller
font size footnote section of one single line
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Bug #9141: Dashbord documentation footnote for creating database via rake based
isn't correct
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9141
Author: John Warburton
Status: Needs More Information
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nick Fagerlund
Category: guides
Target version:
Keywords:
Branch:
Affected URL:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/bootstrapping.html#fn:rakedbcreate
I used the rake commands on a completely fresh MySQL database on a brand new
machine for dashboard 1.2rc6, and was surprised the documentation now said to
use the command line
I don't think this is correct (at worst), and that the foot note system is
**really** difficult to read (at best)
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