You don't need a local path. Its going to essentially use localhost:3306 to connect to the mysql service. It's not a file you specify as much a network address and port number that the service interacts with. I would google MySQL and read the wiki article at least if you need to know more specifics.

So, as long as the MySQL service is running on the machine, it doesn't matter where the database is stored?

That's kinda nice.

From what I understand, when you install the JSS it looks for a local instance of MySQL. If there isn't one, it asks for a location. So assuming it's on the same box as the JSS, it grabs it automatically.

Fantastic.

Thank you very much to the both of you. @emilykausalik and @jdziat.

You could have a look in the database.xml file, this is where the database location, path, name etc are stored.

In Windows this 'should' be in: C:Program Files/Apache Tomcat Foundation/Tomcat 7/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/xml/database.xml

Hope this helps

Is there anyway, that the DataBase.xml can be encrypted, as the <DataBaseUser> & <DataBasePassword> are clear text?

@Dinnerticketboy AFAIK that's a Tomcat thing...

I'd be more worried about folks getting far enough to read the contents of the xml.. & not so much the contents itself.

Yeah, I would need that file encrypted as well. Basic rule of thumb, do not store a password in clear text. If you are working for the government, no clear text password can exist like that. This would be a show stopper.