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#267 - Remove mysql instructions from GETTING_STARTED.md

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Paul Jewell
2025-07-24 08:25:58 +01:00
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@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ file are found in the comments within the file.
Any database supported by the Perl:DBI and Perl::DBD modules can be used with
the site-generator program. Currently the hpr_generator project works with
a MySQL or SQLite database.
an SQLite database.
Find the [DBI] section of the file. It should look like the following
@@ -146,26 +146,6 @@ The hpr.db section of the driver option `dbi:SQLite:hpr.db` is the path
to the sqlite file. The default assumes the hpr.db file is located in the same
directory as the site-generator.
### MySQL
Remove the comment character from the start of the database, driver,
user, and password option lines:
```
# Configuration settings for MySQL
database: mysql
driver: dbi:mysql:database=hpr_hpr:hostname=localhost
user: hpr-generator
password: *********
```
This assumes that the MySQL database service is available at the localhost
hostname, that the database name (hpr_hpr) is the database created from
the hpr.sql dump file or manually created by you, that the user (hpr-generator)
was added by you and has read rights to the hpr_hpr database, and that the
password (replace ********* with the actual password) matches the password set
for the hpr-generator database user.
## Configuring the website for viewing locally
For HTML links to work when viewing the files on your local machine using the