powerdns-admin/docs/wiki/database-setup/Setup-MySQL-or-MariaDB.md
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Setup MySQL database for PowerDNS-Admin

This guide will show you how to prepare a MySQL or MariaDB database for PowerDNS-Admin.

Step-by-step instructions

  1. ivan@ubuntu:~$ mysql -u root -p (then enter your MySQL/MariaDB root users password)
  2. mysql> CREATE DATABASE powerdnsadmin CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
  3. mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON powerdnsadmin.* TO 'pdnsadminuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'p4ssw0rd';
  4. mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
  5. mysql> quit

NOTE:

If you plan to manage large zones, you may encounter some issues while applying changes. This is due to PowerDNS-Admin trying to insert the entire modified zone into the column history.detail.

Using MySQL/MariaDB, this column is created by default as TEXT and thus limited to 65,535 characters.

Solution:

Convert the column to MEDIUMTEXT:

  • USE powerdnsadmin;
  • ALTER TABLE history MODIFY detail MEDIUMTEXT;