Askbot has been successfully tested with MySQL and PostgresQL databases.
This section assumes that MySQL is installed and is up and running.
Database can be prepared via your hosting control panel, if available, or can be created manually as shown below (using a high privilege MySQL account):
Log in to mysql:
mysql -u username -p
Then type these two commands (note that fake dbname, dbuser, and dbpassword are used in this example):
create database askbot DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
grant all privileges on dbname.* to dbuser@localhost identified by 'dbpassword';
Again, please remember to create real usernname, database name and password and write them down. These credentials will go into the file settings.py - the main configuration file of the Django application.
Note
Notation dbuser@hostname is important for security - normally you want to restrict access to the database to certain hosts only. localhost entry ensures that database cannot be accessed from remote hosts at all.