Start multiple neo4j servers from Neo4j Desktop

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I recently downloaded and successfully used "neo4j desktop" (v 1.0.10), which allows you to create and manage different projects and databases.

I need to spawn two databases instances at the same time. I changed the ports for them both from the confs and I can start them successfully on such ports but not together.

When I press the start button on one server the other one automatically stops.

Is it possible to use such feature on neo4j desktop or should I just use the normal neo4j server installation?

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I faced the similar issue and I concluded we can not do this with Neo4J desktop application. – Utsav Chokshi

1 Answers

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Yes, you can not run multiple projects together from Neo4J desktop application. You need to use the neo4j server for this purpose. What I did is :

  1. Download Neo4J server(Community Release) from here
  2. Unzip the tar
  3. Copy unzipped directory to two different locations.

  4. Updated following configurations in conf/neo4j.conf file for both directories (with different values obviously !) :

     dbms.active_database=<name-of-db-dir>
 dbms.directories.data=<path-to-dir>
 # Bolt connector
 dbms.connector.bolt.enabled=true
 #dbms.connector.bolt.tls_level=OPTIONAL
 dbms.connector.bolt.listen_address=localhost:XXXX

 # HTTP Connector. There must be exactly one HTTP connector.
 dbms.connector.http.enabled=true
 dbms.connector.http.listen_address=localhost:XXXX

 # HTTPS Connector. There can be zero or one HTTPS connectors.
 dbms.connector.https.enabled=true
 dbms.connector.https.listen_address=localhost:XXXX

  5. start Neo4J server from respective directories using command : ./bin/neo4j start.

  6. It will start Neo4j server at specified ports on localhost !