[Add Wiki Page] Dynmap MySQL Setup

I’d like to propose a Wiki page be added for setting up Dynmap with MySQL.

Instructions:

1. Download the MySQL jar file from this URL: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
2. Unzip the downloaded file, rename the jar to ‘mysql.jar’ and move the file to ‘{minecraft base dir}/plugins/dynmap/mysql.jar’
3. Edit your configuration.txt to appear similar to code the below (for lines 18-35) 3.1. Edit the database hostname, port, database, username, password, prefix to your appropriate values 3.2. Normally hostname: localhost & port: 3306 will not need to be changed 3.3. database is the name of the MySQL schema, depending on your setup you will want to change that 3.4. prefix is the text that gets applied to the names of the tables that Dynmap generates, useful if you only have one DB/Schema for your server
4. Start your Bukkit server and watch the magic happen

# Map storage scheme: only uncomment one 'type' value
#  filetree: classic and default scheme: tree of files, with all map data under the directory indicated by 'tilespath' setting
#  sqlite: single SQLite database file (this can get VERY BIG), located at 'dbfile' setting (default is file dynmap.db in data directory)
#  mysql: MySQL database, at hostname:port in database, accessed via userid with password
storage:
  # Filetree storage (standard tree of image files for maps)
  #type: filetree
  # SQLite db for map storage (uses dbfile as storage location)
  #type: sqlite
  #dbfile: dynmap.db
  # MySQL DB for map storage (at 'hostname':'port' in database 'database' using user 'userid' password 'password' and table prefix 'prefix'
  type: mysql
  hostname: localhost
  port: 3306
  database: [DB name]
  userid: [Username]
  password: [Password]
  prefix: ""

[rautamiekka]

If you only consider performance, is MySQL faster than filetree? I can’t see anywhere if people compared

Well, when I tested MySQL (not vanilla) against file tree it was something like 3-5x faster loading the tiles just by seeing how quickly the tiles showed up.

But I figured that boost ain’t necessarily needed, and made it a whole lot harder to touch the files, not to mention require increasingly more RAM to keep the performance up, so we went back to file tree.

And that’s assuming you can conf the MySQL Server correctly to use the available resources.

[jwshields]

I don’t see why it wouldn’t