# Setting up sef-core

**URL:** <https://sef.discourse.group/t/setting-up-sef-core/96>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [May 26, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://sef.discourse.group/t/setting-up-sef-core/96 "2020-05-26T11:04:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gimhan\_minion](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/sef.discourse.group/gimhan_minion/32/109_2.png) [@Gimhan\_minion](https://sef.discourse.group/u/Gimhan_minion)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://sef.discourse.group/t/setting-up-sef-core/96/1 "2020-05-26T11:04:23Z")

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Hi all,  
I’m having some issues setting up sef-core repository locally. I went through the readme file but i can’t really understand how to **configure the database**. Can someone please help me regarding this? 🙂  
Thank you!

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**Author:** ![anjisvj](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/sef.discourse.group/anjisvj/32/9_2.png) [@anjisvj](https://sef.discourse.group/u/anjisvj)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://sef.discourse.group/t/setting-up-sef-core/96/2 "2020-05-26T11:06:29Z")

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Did you create an empty database?  
After that make a copy of `application.properties.example` and rename it to `application.properties` or just execute this code

```auto
cp backend/src/main/resources/application.properties.example backend/src/main/resources/application.properties
nano backend/src/main/resources/application.properties

```

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**Author:** ![anjisvj](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/sef.discourse.group/anjisvj/32/9_2.png) [@anjisvj](https://sef.discourse.group/u/anjisvj)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://sef.discourse.group/t/setting-up-sef-core/96/3 "2020-05-26T11:15:58Z")

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In the `application.properties` replace `${DB_USERNAME}, ${DB_PASSWORD}, ${DB_NAME}`  
with your details. once you done this it should like this.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/sef/original/1X/01c8d0efd6471454db5d2c6b565565c2815aa29d.png)

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**Author:** ![Gimhan\_minion](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/sef.discourse.group/gimhan_minion/32/109_2.png) [@Gimhan\_minion](https://sef.discourse.group/u/Gimhan_minion)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://sef.discourse.group/t/setting-up-sef-core/96/4 "2020-05-26T11:39:28Z")

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Thank you @anjisvj I’ll check whether this works!. 😃

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**Author:** ![jaye](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/sef.discourse.group/jaye/32/810_2.png) [@jaye](https://sef.discourse.group/u/jaye)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 4:40am UTC](https://sef.discourse.group/t/setting-up-sef-core/96/5 "2020-05-28T04:40:33Z")

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@Gimhan_minion Did you fixed the issue?

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**Author:** ![Gimhan\_minion](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/sef.discourse.group/gimhan_minion/32/109_2.png) [@Gimhan\_minion](https://sef.discourse.group/u/Gimhan_minion)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://sef.discourse.group/t/setting-up-sef-core/96/6 "2020-05-28T05:09:43Z")

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Yeah Thank you @anjisvj & @jaye !!!