needs to copy the my.cnf to each mysql service for it to use user=root instead of the default user=mysql. also for portainer, nodejs can now access different dbs. will need to create tbl for tbl_user inside the popcenauth schema and for the mysql-data, it needs to connect to my local db?? idk

app/api/routes/popcen.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 const express = require("express");
 const router = express.Router();
-const { dataDb } = require("../../config/db");
+const { dataDb } = require("../../config/dataDb");
 const verifyToken = require("../../middlewares/authMiddleware");
 
 router.get("/", verifyToken, (req, res) => {

app/api/routes/popcenCount.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 const express = require("express");
 const router = express.Router();
-const { dataDb } = require("../../config/db");
+const { dataDb } = require("../../config/dataDb");
 const verifyToken = require("../../middlewares/authMiddleware");
 
 router.get("/", verifyToken, (req, res) => {

app/config/db.js

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-const mysql = require("mysql2");
-const dotenv = require("dotenv");
-
-dotenv.config();
-
-// Authentication DB connection
-const authDb = mysql.createConnection({
-  host: process.env.AUTH_DB_HOST,
-  user: process.env.AUTH_DB_USER,
-  password: process.env.AUTH_DB_PASSWORD,
-  database: process.env.AUTH_DB_NAME,
-});
-
-authDb.connect((err) => {
-  if (err) {
-    console.error("Auth DB connection failed:", err.stack);
-    return;
-  }
-  console.log("Connected to the Authentication DB.");
-});
-
-// Data DB connection
-const dataDb = mysql.createConnection({
-  host: process.env.DATA_DB_HOST,
-  user: process.env.DATA_DB_USER,
-  password: process.env.DATA_DB_PASSWORD,
-  database: process.env.DATA_DB_NAME,
-});
-
-dataDb.connect((err) => {
-  if (err) {
-    console.error("Data DB connection failed:", err.stack);
-    return;
-  }
-  console.log("Connected to the Data DB.");
-});
-
-module.exports = { authDb, dataDb };

app/my.cnf

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# For advice on how to change settings please see
+# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/9.0/en/server-configuration-defaults.html
+
+[mysqld]
+#
+# Remove leading # and set to the amount of RAM for the most important data
+# cache in MySQL. Start at 70% of total RAM for dedicated server, else 10%.
+# innodb_buffer_pool_size = 128M
+#
+# Remove leading # to turn on a very important data integrity option: logging
+# changes to the binary log between backups.
+# log_bin
+#
+# Remove leading # to set options mainly useful for reporting servers.
+# The server defaults are faster for transactions and fast SELECTs.
+# Adjust sizes as needed, experiment to find the optimal values.
+# join_buffer_size = 128M
+# sort_buffer_size = 2M
+# read_rnd_buffer_size = 2M
+
+host-cache-size=0
+skip-name-resolve
+datadir=/var/lib/mysql
+socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
+secure-file-priv=/var/lib/mysql-files
+user=root
+
+pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
+[client]
+socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
+
+!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/

portainer.yml

@@ -1,19 +1,39 @@
+version: "3.8"
+
 services:
-  mysql:
+  # Authentication Database
+  mysql-auth:
     image: mysql:latest
-    container_name: mysql
+    container_name: mysql-auth
     environment:
       MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 12345678
-      MYSQL_DATABASE: popcen
-      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 12345678
+      MYSQL_DATABASE: popcenauth
+      MYSQL_USER: admin
     ports:
-      - "3307:3306"
-
+      - "3308:3306" # Different port for the auth DB
     volumes:
-      - mysqldata:/var/lib/mysql
+      #- D:/Projects/AuthenticatedAPIDocker/app/mysql/etc/mysql/mysqlauth/etc:/etc
+      - D:/Projects/AuthenticatedAPIDocker/app/mysql/mysqldata_auth:/var/lib/mysql
     extra_hosts:
       - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
 
+  # Data Database
+  mysql-data:
+    image: mysql:latest
+    container_name: mysql-data
+    environment:
+      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 12345678
+      MYSQL_DATABASE: popcen
+      MYSQL_USER: admin # Change to root
+    ports:
+      - "3309:3306" # Default port for the data DB
+    volumes:
+      # - D:/Projects/AuthenticatedAPIDocker/app/mysql/etc/mysql/mysqldata/etc:/etc
+      - D:/Projects/AuthenticatedAPIDocker/app/mysql/mysqldata:/var/lib/mysql
+    extra_hosts:
+      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
+
+  # Node.js Service
   nodejs:
     image: f04c/nodemysqlv2:latest
     container_name: nodejs
@@ -23,14 +43,21 @@ services:
     ports:
       - "3001:3000"
     environment:
-      DB_HOST: 192.168.23.20
-      DB_USER: root
-      DB_PASSWORD: 12345678
-      DB_NAME: popcen
+      # Auth DB connection
+      AUTH_DB_HOST: mysql-auth
+      AUTH_DB_USER: admin
+      AUTH_DB_NAME: popcenauth
+
+      # Data DB connection
+      DATA_DB_HOST: mysql-data
+      DATA_DB_USER: admin
+      DATA_DB_NAME: popcen
+
     depends_on:
-      - mysql
+      - mysql-auth
+      - mysql-data
     command: "node server.js"
 
 volumes:
-  API2:
+  mysqldata_auth:
   mysqldata: