DATABASE_NAME = 'osqa'
DATABASE_USER = 'osqa'
DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'your_osqa_password'
DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql'
同样在settings_local.py文件中，修改以下这项，来更新域名。
APP_URL = ''
9. 为OSQA数据库建表输入如下命令，会自动建立必须的表
sudo python manage.py syncdb --all
进行这步操作时，出现错误cannot import name mark_safe，解决方法，打开文件/home/neil/osqa-server/forum/utils/html.py，找到第6行，做如下修改。
#from django.template import mark_safe
#原始代码
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe #修改后
在稍后部署后访问页面出现http 500错误，查看错误日志/var/log/apache2/osqa.error.log，发现该错误url(r'^%s(.*)' % _('nimda/'), admin.site.root)，据stackoverflow上的说法，打开/home/neil/osqa-server/forum/urls.py文件，找到第23行，这是django1.0版本的代码，在django1.3版本下不工作。替换成如下代码。
#url(r'^%s(.*)' % _('nimda/'), admin.site.root),
#原始代码
url(r'^%s(.*)' % _('nimda/'), include(admin.site.urls)), #修改后
在建完表后，系统会要求建立一个超级管理员帐号，OSQA官网推荐说此时不建立该帐号，等网站架设起来后，通过正常方法建立的第1个用户默认就是超级管理员。
接下来还有一步，不是很了解，原文如下。
With that command you have successfully defined the schema. With South installed, you also have the ability to migrate between databases--a useful feature as OSQA is updated. However, as this is a fresh install, you will need to convince South that the schema is already up to date by "faking" a migration. You can do that with the following command:
sudo python manage.py migrate forum --fake