basexserver(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, lemme put you on 💅 this is basexserver — the XML database system and XPath/XQuery processor, but running in server mode. yes she's the same icon as basex(1) just with main character energy.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

basexserver [-cCdnpSz] [stop]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

basexserver fires up the server mode of the native XML database system, aka basex(1), and she parks herself on the default port 1984. no cap. 🫶

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

ngl the short-and-sweet description of each option lives right here:

$ basexserver -h

or you can go scroll the docs like the little researcher you are: https://docs.basex.org/main/Command-Line_Options#server ✨

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👑 USER MANAGEMENT 👑

okay this is the part where you need to pay attention, bestie, no skimming 🙈

On first startup, a user 'admin' exists with the default password 'admin' (make sure to change this)! like, fr fr please change it, that's not a vibe 💀

Admin permissions are needed to execute one of the following processes. like, you can't just walk in there, she has standards 👑

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

> CREATE USER test test

As global permissions, the 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. So 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, then the global rights are inherited. periodt. 💅

• 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 ). 🧚

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🍓 DATABASE COMMANDS 🍓

Wanna see the full list of supported Database commands? it's giving effortless, just go:

$ basexserver -ic help

or browse https://docs.basex.org/main/Commands ✨

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⭐ 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

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💖 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. like, she really grew up and ate. 🔥

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🌈 LICENSE 🌈

New (3-clause) BSD License

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💅 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.

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and that's the whole page, bestie — written for The XML Database, version vibes of basexserver(1), dated 24 July 2026. go start that server, you got this 👑✨