Liferay Mysql Configuration

Steps to Configure mysql DB to liferay 

• Goto mysql server and cerate a empty database
• Now goto <liferay server>/
• Create a file with name portal-ext.properties
• Add the below lines to the file.
• # MySQljdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
  
  jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/<DB Name >?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false
  
  jdbc.default.username=

jdbc.default.password=

• Start the server and you can see that liferay is configured to the mysql DB