From 50bcdf7c603f1bfc2154ab457a2be5716366b18f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Jewell <paul@teulu.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 03:50:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove references to local use of MySQL

Preferred option is to use SQLite, as it is simpler to set up
---
 GETTING_STARTED.md | 44 +++-----------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

diff --git a/GETTING_STARTED.md b/GETTING_STARTED.md
index f9b9667..2d8d5ba 100644
--- a/GETTING_STARTED.md
+++ b/GETTING_STARTED.md
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ or
 
 `wget --directory-prefix=./ https://www.hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql`
 
-You can process the file using SQLite, or MySQL as you prefer. SQLite is the recommended option for local processing, but instructions are given for both options:
-## Option 1: Creating an SQLite database file
+You can process the file using SQLite:
+## Creating an SQLite database file
 
 The SQL of the hpr.sql file must be converted from MySQL specific statements to 
 SQLite specific statements. The mysql2sqlite script found in the utils directory 
@@ -102,17 +102,6 @@ From the root of the local hpr_generator repository run:
 
 `./utils/update-hpr-db.sh`
 
-## Option 2: Creating a MySQL database file
-
-The SQL code in the hpr.sql file needs to be loaded into a local database:
-* Create database hpr_hpr in the MySQL server from HPR dump file.
-    - ``sudo mysql --host=localhost < hpr.sql``
-* Create a user that will be used by the site-generator.
-    - Suggested username: hpr-generator
-    - ``CREATE USER 'hpr-generator'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';``
-* Limit the user's privileges to EXECUTE and SELECT
-    - ``GRANT SELECT ON hpr_hpr.* TO 'hpr-generator'@'localhost';``
-    - ``GRANT EXECUTE ON `hpr_hpr`.* TO 'hpr-generator'@'localhost';``
 # Configure the site-generator
 
 In your favorite text editor, open the site.cfg file found in the root of the 
@@ -123,7 +112,7 @@ 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
 
@@ -134,15 +123,8 @@ Find the [DBI] section of the file. It should look like the following
 #driver: dbi:SQLite:hpr.db 
 #user:        (not used - leave blank)
 #password:    (not used - leave blank)
-# Configuration settings for MySQL
-#database: mysql
-#driver: dbi:mysql:database=hpr_hpr:hostname=localhost 
-#user: hpr-generator  (Suggested user with read-only privileges)
-#password: *********  (Password for user)
 ```
 
-### SQLite
-
 Remove the comment character from the start of the database and driver 
 option lines:
 
@@ -158,26 +140,6 @@ 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