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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ Fixed
- Regenerate translations (#338)
- Fix broken install with pip ≥ 10 (#340)
+Added
+=====
+
+- Document MySQL setup (#357)
+
2.1 (2018-02-16)
----------------
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index e7d586e..4829c5d 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -63,6 +63,22 @@ Once installed, you can start a test server::
And point your browser at `http://localhost:5000 <http://localhost:5000>`_.
+Configure database with MySQL/MariaDB (optional)
+================================================
+
+Only required if you prefer MySQL/MariaDB over SQLite.
+
+1. Install PyMySQL dependencies. On Debian or Ubuntu, that would be::
+
+ apt install python3-dev libssl-dev
+
+2. Install PyMySQL (within your virtualenv)::
+
+ pip install 'PyMySQL>=0.9,<0.10'
+
+3. Create an empty database and a database user
+4. Configure :ref:`SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI <configuration>` accordingly
+
Deploy it
=========
@@ -159,6 +175,8 @@ For example, use the following command to add more gunicorn workers::
docker run -d -p 8000:8000 ihatemoney -w 3
+.. _configuration:
+
Configuration
=============
@@ -187,7 +205,7 @@ Production values are recommended values for use in production.
| | | **Production value:** `ihatemoney conf-example ihatemoney.cfg` sets it to something |
| | | random, which is good. |
+-------------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER | ``("Budget manager", | A python tuple describing the name and email address to use when sending |
+| MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER | ``("Budget manager", | A python tuple describing the name and email address to use when sending |
| | "budget@notmyidea.org")`` | emails. |
| | | |
| | | **Production value:** Any tuple you want. |