To bind an external database
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Open your CLI.
- Run the following command:
cf create-user-provided-service [service-name] -p “comma, separated, parameters, names”
The required parameters are 'hostname', 'port', 'username' , 'password', 'name' (where 'name' is the database Zend Server will use for its internal functions).
- Enter the values for each parameter in order.
- Run the following command to bind the MySQL service to your application:
cf bind-service [service-name] [app-name]
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Restart your application for Zend Server buildpack to detect changes and create cluster:
cf restart [app-name]
Zend Server will create the MySQL database schema and enable clustering features.
Note:
To use the database parameters in an application, use the PHP getenv function to extract them from the VCAP_SERVICES environment variable.
