- Install MySQL 8
- Create the database 'mentdb' with the 'Latin1' charset
- CREATE DATABASE mentdb CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci;
- CREATE USER 'mentdbuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pwd';
- GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mentdb.* TO 'mentdbuser'@'localhost';
- FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
- Go to the MentDB_Weak directory...
- Open the conf directory...
- Edit the file server.conf

- Go to the [SQL] section
- You can see the line: light_mode=true
- Change it by light_mode=false
- If light_mode=true then "H2 database - embedded mode" else "MySQL database - server mode"
- You are now in MySQL mode
- Update the MySQL connection 'host', 'port', 'db', 'user', 'pwd'
- Save the file

- Go to the MentDB_Weak_Server_GPLv3 directory...
- Open bin directory...
- Choose your OS (windows / linux/ osx / raspberry32)
- Double clic on start.sh (or start.bat for Windows)

Your server is started.
