im trying to create a koha instance configured for a remote mariadb server https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian#Create_a_Koha_instance
remove /etc/mysql/koha-common.cnf create a new file in its place containing the connection information for the server, in the form of a my.cnf file.
what does that mean? the only my.cnf file that I can find on the system is /etc/mysql/my.cnf and that doesnt look right $ koha-create --dbhost 172.23.0.3 --database kohadb --request-db koha-demo $ vim koha-demo-db-request.txt $ koha-create --dbhost 172.23.0.3 --database kohadb --populate-db koha-demo Koha instance is empty, no staff user created. after that I still see the autogenerated password in /etc/koha/sites/koha-demo/koha-conf.xml and the mariadb database is empty after reading the koha-create source i have a feeling this --request-db/--populate-db stuff cant possibly work. --populate-db is trying to get the db passwort using getinstancemysqluser() but that function is a wrapper around xmlstarlet and i was just told by `koha-create --request-db` to write the new db password into this txt file. I will update the wiki after I figured this out cheers david