Again, this is a beginner's query. I still haven't been able to add a database. I tried with SQLite and failed - but that might be a Java issue. So I constructed a MariaDB database, which is now sitting on my local hard drive, in the default directory /var/lib/mysql.
But I don't know how to make it available to Metabase: what permissions I need, where it should be moved to, etc.
As a check of addresses and ports, netstat -tln includes the line
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
I'm not sure why the IP address is given as 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1.
I'm running Metabase using docker compose, on a host running Ubuntu 20.04LTS; my home system is ArchLinux.
Another issue is that I can't get Metabase to read my plugins; whose directory I've added as a bind mount. I've put the csv.metabase-driver.jar file in the plugins directory, but I'be never seen CSV as an option in the Add Database menu.
Currently I have Metabase running, but I can't as yet do anything with it!
Many thanks,
Alasdair
Here's the system info:
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"browser-info": {
"language": "en-GB",
"platform": "Linux x86_64",
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
"vendor": "Google Inc."
},
"system-info": {
"file.encoding": "UTF-8",
"java.runtime.name": "OpenJDK Runtime Environment",
"java.runtime.version": "11.0.22+7",
"java.vendor": "Eclipse Adoptium",
"java.vendor.url": "https://adoptium.net/",
"java.version": "11.0.22",
"java.vm.name": "OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM",
"java.vm.version": "11.0.22+7",
"os.name": "Linux",
"os.version": "5.4.0-37-generic",
"user.language": "en",
"user.timezone": "GMT"
},
"metabase-info": {
"databases": [
"h2"
],
"hosting-env": "unknown",
"application-database": "postgres",
"application-database-details": {
"database": {
"name": "PostgreSQL",
"version": "16.2 (Debian 16.2-1.pgdg120+2)"
},
"jdbc-driver": {
"name": "PostgreSQL JDBC Driver",
"version": "42.7.2"
}
},
"run-mode": "prod",
"version": {
"date": "2024-03-14",
"tag": "v0.49.0",
"hash": "46c668b"
},
"settings": {
"report-timezone": "Australia/Melbourne"
}
}
}