Deploy Seafile Windows Server With MySQL

• Download and Setup Seafile Windows Server
• Stop seafile windows server
  • Right click the seafile server tray icon
  • Choose “Quit and shutdown Seafile Server”

• download the windows installer from
• install it by double clicking the downloaded exe file

• databases for ccnet/seafile/seahub
• a new user to access these databases

Open a termial (cmd, Win + R, cmd) and login to mysql with a privileged user:

create database `seafile-db` character set = 'utf8';
create database `seahub-db` character set = 'utf8';
create user 'seafile'@'localhost' identified by 'your secure password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `seafile-db`.* to `seafile`;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `seahub-db`.* to `seafile`;

• Append the following lines to ccnet/ccnet.conf:

• Edit the database section of seafile-data/seafile.conf:

[database]
type=mysql
user=seafile
password=your secure password
db_name=seafile-db

Create Database Tables for Seahub

Now we create the database tables for seahub.

Open a window command line prompt, and execute the following command:

mysql -u seafile -p seahub-db < C:/SeafileProgram/seafile-server-3.1.3/seahub/sql/mysql.sql