sonar jdbc properties are not supported anymore in sonarqube 5.3 version

Question

I am using sonarqube 5.3 latest version and when I configure the sonar jdbc properties in my properties file using

property "sonar.jdbc.url", "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar")
property "sonar.jdbc.username", "root")
property "sonar.jdbc.password", "root")

I get warning message

Property 'sonar.jdbc.url' is not supported any more. It will be ignored. There is no longer any DB connection to the SQ database.
Property 'sonar.jdbc.username' is not supported any more. It will be ignored. There is no longer any DB connection to the SQ database.
Property 'sonar.jdbc.password' is not supported any more. It will be ignored. There is no longer any DB connection to the SQ database.

How to configure external database and not use embedded database provided by sonarqube?

Answer 1

You only need to configure the sonar.host.url. All communication between scanner and server is done with web services, and the scanner no longer talks to the database at all.