4.2 Database URL

Anubis database is identified by its URL, or Universal Resource Locator. A URL consists of following elements (square brackets enclose optional elements):

proto://[[user[:password]@]host]/path[params]

The detailed description of each URL part follows:

proto

Specifies a database protocol. The protocol describes how the database is to be accessed. In a way, it may be regarded as specifying the database type. Currently, GNU Anubis supports following database protocols:

`text'	A plain text file, containing users' credentials.
`gdbm'	GDBM database
`mysql'	MySQL database
`pgsql'	PostgreSQL database
`postgres'	Alias for `pgsql'.

These protocols are described in detail below.

user

User name necessary to access the database.

password

User password necessary to access the database.

host

Domain name or IP address of a machine running the database.

path

A path to the database. The exact meaning of this element depends on the database protocol. It is described in detail when discussing particular database protocols.

params

A list of protocol-dependent parameters. Each parameter is of the form keyword=name, parameters are separated by semicolons.

4.2.1 Plain text databases
4.2.2 Databases in GDBM format
4.2.3 MySQL and PostgreSQL		MySQL and PostgreSQL databases