basexserver(1)

NAME
basexserver - XML database system and XPath/XQuery processor (server mode)

SYNOPSIS
basexserver [-cCdnpSz] [stop]

DESCRIPTION
basexserver starts the server mode of the native XML database system basex(1) on default port 1984.

OPTIONS
A short description of option can be obtained from

    $ basexserver -h

or by browsing https://docs.basex.org/main/Command-Line_Options#server

USER MANAGEMENT
On first startup a user 'admin' with default password 'admin' exists (make sure to change this)!

Admin permissions are needed to execute one of the following processes.

•   Creating user 'test' with password 'test':

   > CREATE USER test test

As global permissions valid options are 'none', 'read', 'write', 'create' and 'admin'.

•   Revoking all global permissions from user 'test':

   > GRANT none TO test

Valid local permissions are 'none', 'read' and 'write'.

•   Granting write permission on database 'factbook' to user 'test':

    > GRANT write ON factbook TO test

Note: Local permissions overwrite global permissions. As a consequence, the 'test' user will only be allowed to access (i.e., read and write) the 'factbook' database. If no local permissions are set, the global rights are inherited.

•   Showing global permissions:

    > SHOW USERS

•   Showing local permissions on database 'factbook':

   > SHOW USERS ON factbook

•   Dropping of user 'test':

   > DROP USER test

Further details on user management are to be found in the BaseX Documentation Wiki (https://docs.basex.org/main/User_Management).

DATABASE COMMANDS
A list of supported Database commands can be obtained from

    $ basexserver -ic help

or by browsing https://docs.basex.org/main/Commands

SEE ALSO
basexclient(1), basex(1), basexgui(1)

   .basexhome                can be created by a user to mark a folder as home directory.
   .basex                    BaseX (standalone and server) properties
   .basexgui                 BaseX additional GUI properties
   .basexhistory             contains commands that have been typed in most recently.
   ${basexhome}/data         Default database directory
   ${basexhome}/data/.logs   Server logs
   ${basexhome}/repo         Package repository

BaseX Documentation Wiki: https://docs.basex.org

HISTORY
BaseX started as a research project of the Database and Information Systems Group (DBIS) at the University of Konstanz in 2005 and soon turned into a feature-rich open source XML database and XPath/XQuery processor.

LICENSE
New (3-clause) BSD License

AUTHOR
BaseX is primarily developed by Christian Grün <cg@basex.org> with the help of various contributors <https://basex.org/about/open-source/>

The man page was written by Alexander Holupirek <alex@holupirek.de> while packaging BaseX for Debian GNU/Linux.