WebDBViewer

Database viewer to see database information on web browser.

Features

Display database information on web browser.
Support MySQL and SQLite.
Execute simple select statement.
Join mode support, You can search rows using joined table's column condition.
Display table names, show create table, primary keys, null allowed columnes, database engines, and charsets.
CGI support, and having built-in prefork web werver which reverse proxy support.
Support many operating system. Unix, Linux, and cygwin on Windows.
Perl 5.8.7+ only needed.

Check Perl Version

Check Perl version. You can use webdbviewer if the Perl version is 5.8.7+;

perl -v

A. Installation when you run webdbviewer as CGI script

Download tar.gz archive, expand it and change directory:

curl -kL https://github.com/yuki-kimoto/webdbviewer/archive/latest.tar.gz > webdbviewer-latest.tar.gz
tar xf webdbviewer-latest.tar.gz
mv webdbviewer-latest webdbviewer
cd webdbviewer

Setup. Needed module is installed.

./setup.sh

Check setup. Run the following command.

prove t

If "syntax OK" is displayed, setup is sucseed.

You must set database information in webdbviewer.conf. database type, database name, user, password, host, or port. (; is comment line)

[basic]
;;; Database type
; dbtype=mysql
; dbtype=sqlite
dbtype=mysql

;;; Database name
dbname=myproject

;;; User
user=kimoto

;;; Password
password=secret

;;; Host
;host=yourhost.com

;;; Port
;port=1234

You can access the following URL.

http://yourhost/somepath/webdbviewer/webdbviewer.cgi

If you see Internal Server Error

If you see an internal server error, look at the log file (webdbviewer/log/production.log) to see what problem has occurred.

Additional work when you don't run CGI script by your user.

If CGI script isn't run by your user, you need the following work. For example, CGI script is run by apache user.

Change user and group of all files in webdbviewer directory to apache

chown -R apache:apache webdbviewer

In this case, you server need to execute CGI. Check apache config file.

For example, you need the following config.

<Directory /var/www/html>
    Options +ExecCGI
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</Directory>

B. Installation when you run webdbviewer as embdded web server

webdbviewer has its own web server, so you can start using the application very easily. In this way, performance is much better than CGI.

Create webdbviewer user

Create a webdbviewer user. This is not necessary, but recommended:

useradd webdbviewer
su - webdbviewer
cd ~

Download

Download tar.gz archive, expand it and change directory:

curl -kL https://github.com/yuki-kimoto/webdbviewer/archive/latest.tar.gz > webdbviewer-latest.tar.gz
tar xf webdbviewer-latest.tar.gz
mv webdbviewer-latest webdbviewer
cd webdbviewer

Setup. Needed module is installed.

./setup.sh

Check setup. Run the following command.

prove t

If "syntax OK" is displayed, setup is sucseed.

You must set database information in webdbviewer.conf. database type, database name, user, password, host, or port. (; is comment line)

[basic]
;;; Database type
; dbtype=mysql
; dbtype=sqlite
dbtype=mysql

;;; Database name
dbname=myproject

;;; User
user=kimoto

;;; Password
password=secret

;;; Host
;host=yourhost.com

;;; Port
;port=1234

Start

You can start the application by running the provided webdbviewer script. The application is run in the background and the port is 10020 by default.

./webdbviewer

Then access the following URL.

http://localhost:10020

If you want to change the port, edit webdbviewer.conf. If you cannot access this port, you might change the firewall settings.

Stop

You can stop the application by adding the --stop option.

./webdbviewer --stop

Developer

If you are developer, you can start application development mode

./morbo

You can access the following URL.

http://localhost:3000

If you have git, it is easy to install from git.

git clone git://github.com/yuki-kimoto/webdbviewer.git

It is useful to write configuration in webdbviewer.my.conf , not webdbviewer.conf.

Web Site

WebDBViewer Site

Internally Using Library

Sister project

webdbviewer - Github clone. you can install portable github system into unix/linux.

Copyright & license

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

cloudxtreme / webdbviewer Goto Github PK

webdbviewer's Introduction