Storages

1. General
2. File Storage
3. MySQL, MariaDB & Postgres
   1. Connection-URL
   2. Connection-Properties
   3. Custom JDBC-Driver
4. Sqlite
5. Compression

General

With BlueMap you can define one or more Storages where you want your maps to be stored. Theoretically you could store each map in a different storage.

To configure your storages, you can use the storages folder in your config folder. In the same way as with the maps, the name of these config-file (without the .conf-extension) determines the identifier of the storage. Which means you can also add and remove storages. In your map-configs you then can use the storage-setting to select the storage this map should be stored in.

For example: If you have a config file storages/mystorage.conf then in your map configs you can set storage: "mystorage" to make that map use it.

File Storage

The file-storage is the default storage. It is simply a folder where BlueMap will store the map-tiles as separate files. Exactly like the webapp expects them. Usually that folder is in your webapp’s webroot: ./bluemap/web/maps. But you can change this folder however you like using the root setting.

MySQL, MariaDB & Postgres

To use a MySQL, MariaDB or Postgres database, you can use the sql.conf template and enter your database information there.

Connection-URL

The connection-url setting is where you define most things like e.g. the host (url/address/ip) of your database and the port. This is done in form of a JDBC-string. The exact syntax of this string depends on the database-driver that you are using. But usually it looks something like this: jdbc:[driver]://[host]:[port]/[database][?properties]

Here are some Examples:
jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/bluemap?permitMysqlScheme
jdbc:mariadb://db.myhost.com/my-database
jdbc:postgres://127.0.0.1:3306/bluemap

And here is some more documentation for mysql, mariadb and postgres.

Connection-Properties

The connection-properties config is just a map of custom properties that you can pass to your db-driver when creating a new connection. Usually this is used to authenticate yourself with the user and password properties like this:

connection-properties: {
    user: "root",
    password: "pA55w0rd"
}

Custom JDBC-Driver

BlueMap does not include any database-driver, this means you will need to provide your own driver to the Java Runtime somehow:

Paper already includes a MySQL driver, so you don’t have to do anything if you are on a Paper server and want to use MySQL/MariaDB.

For Spigot, Fabric and Forge there are a couple of mods/plugins which add such a driver.

Alternatively you can also manually download the JDBC-Driver of your choice and configure BlueMap to load it:
Download the driver-jar (e.g. mariadb-java-client.jar) and place it in the ./bluemap folder. Then set driver-jar: "bluemap/mariadb-java-client.jar" and driver-class: "org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver" to tell BlueMap where to find the jar and which class to load from it. (Don’t forget to remove the # to uncomment the settings)

Sqlite

Configuring Sqlite is basically the same as in MySQL, MariaDB & Postgres, just use a JDBC-driver for sqlite and configure the correct connection-url like this: jdbc:sqlite:[path-to-database-file]. If the database-file doesn’t exist, it will be created.

Info:
It is recommended to set the max-connections to 1 when using sqlite, to avoid database-locking issues!

Here is a simple way to set up your sqlite-storage:

• Install this plugin/mod
• Set the connection-url in your sql.conf to connection-url: "jdbc:sqlite:bluemap/sqlite.db"
• Set the max-connections to 1
• Change the storage in each of your map config files (./maps/xxx.conf) to storage: "sql"

Done :)

Compression

All the storage-types have a compression setting. It defines how each hires-tile is compressed before it is stored.
The default and recommended compression is GZIP, since browsers can receive the files compressed and decompress them on the fly.
The supported compression settings are: