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Metacat Server has many dynamically settable properties. All of them are kept in the Metacat.properties file. Most can be set from within the build file when you first install Metacat. The following is a summary of each property and its function.
| Property | Description | Possible or default value |
| user | The username that Metacat uses to access the backend database. | |
| password | The password that Metacat uses to access the backend database. | |
| defaultDB | The JDBC connection string that Metacat uses to connect to the backend database. | jdbc:oracle:thin:@server.domain.com:1521:Metacat |
| dbDriver | The JDBC driver to be used to access the backend database. | oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver |
| dbAdapter | The name of the RDBMS Adapter Class that Metacat uses to get specific features in the backend database. | edu.ucsb.nceas.dbadapter.OracleAdapter |
| initialConnections | The number of initial connection that Metacat creates to the database. | 5 |
| incrementConnections | The number of connections that are created when Metacat needs more connections. | 5 |
| maximumConnections | The maximum number of database connection Metacat can make. | 10 |
| config-dir | directory where the style-sets exist | /opt/tomcat/webapps/metacat/lib |
| default-style | the style-set to use if qformat is set to 'html' | |
| xmlcatalogfile | The default file type catalog file location. DEPRECATED |
/opt/tomcat/webapps/xmltodb/catalog.txt |
| siteCode | The code for the current site. | NCEAS |
| accNumSeparator | The separator that is used to separate the three parts of the accession number: codename, sequence and revision number. It should be synchronized with the Client application. | . (period) |
| saxparser | The SAX parser to be used to parse XML documents. | org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser |
| servletpath | The path on the local machine to the Metacat Servlet. | /knb/servlet/metacat |
| htmlpath | The path to the HTML server for this Metacat context. This is where the Metacat web interface would be served from. | /knb |
| packagedoctype | The doctype of a package file. The system will only recognize documents of this type as a Package files. | -//NCEAS//eml-dataset-2.0//EN |
| accessdoctype | The doctype of an access control list (ACL) file. The system will only recognize documents of this type as an Access files. | -//NCEAS//eml-access-2.0//EN |
| server | The server on which this Metacat server runs. | dev.nceas.ucsb.edu:8090 |
| authclass | The authorization plugin to use. In this example, LDAP. | edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.AuthLdap |
| ldapurl | The path to your LDAP server (if LDAP authentication is being used. | ldap://ldap.nceas.ucsb.edu:389/ |
| ldapsurl | The path to your LDAP server with SSL support. (if LDAP authentication is being used and if your LDAT server is set with SSL support.) 2 ports are used to listen: 389 for plain sockets and 636 for SSL Sockect. If your LDAP server is not set to support SSL this property should be the same as ldapurl, else Metacat will retieve an error. | ldap://ldap.nceas.ucsb.edu:636/ |
| ldapbase | LDAP base parameters for the LDAP server. | o=NCEAS,c=US |
| referral | The type of ldap referrals you want to use. Eithe 'follow', 'throw' or 'none'. See the ldap documentation for further information | follow |
| deltaT | The default delta T used for replication. | 60 |
| replicationpath | The relative path to the replication servlet. | /knb/servlet/replication |
| replicationlog | Location of the replication log file. | /logs/Metacatreplication.log |
| dtdPath | Path to which DTDs are uploaded. | /opt/tomcat/webapps/knb/dtd/ |
| dtdURL | The HTTP accessable URL to the DTD files specified in dtdPath. | http://server.domain.com/knb/dtd/ |
| datafilepath | The path to which you want data files uploaded. | /opt/tomcat/webapps/knb/data |
| certPath | path to the SSL keys for secure transmissions. | /opt/tomcat/webapps/metacat/lib |