Databases

Plenty of plugins want MySQL or MariaDB — economy, LuckPerms, stats. The Databases tab makes the database, the user and the password for you.

Before it works

The panel does not run a database; it only creates one on a database host the administrator configured under Admin → Database hosts. Until there is one, the tab says so — and that is the panel's configuration, not your server's.

Creating one

Pick a host and confirm. The panel creates:

• a database with a name of its own,
• a user with rights to that database only,
• a password, shown to you in the panel.

Show connection puts the details together, Copy takes them straight into a plugin's config.

The address to give the plugin

The panel's servers share one container network, and the database host has a name on it. What belongs in the config is that name, not localhost: inside a container localhost is the container itself, and a plugin pointed at it is looking for the database inside the game server.

Show connection shows the exact address your plugin should be given.

Rotating the password

Rotate password makes a new one. The old one stops working immediately, so a plugin holding it in its config will disconnect — put the new one in and restart the server.

Deleting

Deleting a database in the panel deletes it on the host, with everything in it. A server backup does not contain it — a database's data lives outside the data directory. If it matters, take a dump.

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