Articles tagged as installation
Debian: apt-get failing to update Neo4j
The common cause is an out of date gpg key. To update then run the following command: See also the information on: https://debian.neo4j.com You can get more information about running…
Debian / Ubuntu: How to enforce a certain version of neo4j when using debian packages
If you want to run a specific version of Neo4j and install the software via a debian repository you need to use a technique called apt pinning. Otherwise, any system…
Diagnose storage performance issues
Slow storage can affect Neo4j performance, therefore we recommend using Solid State Drives in the product documentation. Benchmark your underlying system On Ubuntu or RedHat, you can use fio tool…
Neo4j Docker image cannot run on kubernetes as non root user
In Kubernetes (K8S) various levels of security can be set which apply cluster-wide to Pods running containers. One of which is a policy which prevents containers within a Pod to…
Hosting Multiple Neo4j Instances On One Machine
This document lists some considerations whilst planning to host multiple neo4j instances on the same physical host machine. Multiple instances are allowed though this is not typically seen in the…
How do I define my graph.db at a path other than under NEO4J_HOME for Windows
Commencing with Neo4j 3.0, the default location for your graph.db directory is under $NEO4J_HOME\databases\. To change the path for the location of the database directory, edit the following parameters in…
How to install Neo4j in a disconnected environment
Premise: You are working with a private/disconnected environment and would like to install the Neo4j Database using RPM packages as a source. You can download the RPM packages on a…
How to List and Install Neo4j Versions Using yum
Neo4j 3.0 does NOT provide an rpm, and it is unlikely 3.1 will either. This is on the roadmap to be done soon, but presently it is not an official…
Number of open files
GNU/Linux and Mac OS operating systems impose an upper limit on the number of concurrent files a user may have open. This article covers how to configure the number of…
Proper File Permissions on Neo4j Server
When installing Neo4j Server, keep in mind that the bin/neo4j executable will need to be run by some OS system user, and that user will need write permissions to some…
Recommendations for recovery upon Out Of Memory error
It is possible to configure the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) such that upon encountering an OOM (Out-Of-Memory) error it will force an exception and crash or simply shut down the…
Running Docker as Non-Root User
When running Neo4j Docker, it will run as neo4j user inside the container. But to run docker as a different user one can specify the --user argument. Documentation has a…
Setting Max Open File Limits on Mac OSX
This document provides a process for setting soft and hard max open file limits on MAC OSX. Each thread created by a user process will require availability in max open…
How to set up SSL communcation when running Neo4j within a Docker Container
Neo4j 3.2 added a Unified SSL Framework to setup secure connections for Bolt, HTTPS and Intra-Cluster Encryption. Details on this framework can be found at: https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/security/ssl-framework/ Setting up secure Bolt…
Setup Neo4j Service to run with different service ID
By default when neo4j is installed as an RPM via yum or apt-get, it creates a user neo4j and group neo4j and runs as neo4j user. However it might be…
Using apt to download a specific Neo4j debian package
By default, using apt-get to install Neo4j allows you to grab the current and previous stable releases. However, if you would like to install an older version, you can specify…
Using supervisord to manage Neo4j process
In general, running the neo4j process directly is the most common way to start and stop the neo4j server. However, if you use supervisord to manage processes, this has worked…