Development/MusicBrainz Server Environment Variables

Environment variables

The musicbrainz server understands the following environment variables, these may be useful during development:

CATALYST_DEBUG

This is the catalyst debug output, it is enabled by default. You can set it to "0" if you're not interested in this data.

SQL_DEBUG

Set this to "1" to print sql queries on the console (including query times).

MUSICBRAINZ_USE_TEST_DATABASE

Set this to "1" when you want to run the server against the test database, this is typically used to debug selenium tests:

 $ script/setup_test_db_for_selenium.pl ; MUSICBRAINZ_USE_TEST_DATABASE=1 script/musicbrainz_server.pl -r