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Hi can someone please assist me with laravel forge expecially on the database side i watched the laravel forge tutorials, and i have notice that the database section of the tutorial is not the same as on my laravel forge account i can only see change database password no options to create new databases and option to create new users also no option to view current databases is this normal can someone please help me am i missing something?
i have choosen to use postgres instead of mysql when i was configuring the server. might that cause me not seeing the options to add new databases and users?
I have only used MySQL on Forge, so I don't know if there is a difference with PostgreSQL. At least with MySQL you should be able to add and delete databases and database-users. Click on your server through the 'Servers' menu, and then on the left click 'Database'.
To view my current databases I use a SSH connection through SequelPro (https://laracasts.com/series/learn-laravel-forge/episodes/8). Maybe for PostgreSQL you can use http://www.psequel.com/? Haven't used it myself.
thanks for your reply how I change it to mysql so i can see any difference?
@thamibn looks like this is intended lack of features on forge side.
You would need to login to your database with ssh and root password and add / remove databases and users via command line or IDE.
Mysql has a full control.
@aurawindsurfing thanks for your reply I will go that route then, next time I will choose mysql just to make things easier for me
Thanks everyone for ur inputs
In theory, your project should be server and database agnostic. Meaning if you have migrations and git repository, you could just spin new server with forge and migrate everything to MySQL. Of course, this is if the project is not live yet ;-)
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