Database Configuration File
Before installing Omeka, users must edit their database configuration in the db.ini file. Replace the X's in the document with your MySQL database-specific information. You must have MySQL5 installed to use Omeka. Here are the options you'll change:
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Host
This is the location of your database on your server, most commonly "localhost" but this may vary from server to server. Sometimes this is mysql.localhost among other possibilities.
Username and Password
These are specific to your MySQL database, and often different from your FTP username and password.
Name
Your database name. Shared hosts often will prefix these names with your username, sometimes resulting in a database name like username_databasename.
Prefix
The prefix field value is "omeka_" by default. To install more than one Omeka installation on the same database, change the prefix for each installation.
