SuperTokens is an open source authentication solution offering features like: Different types of login: Email / password, Passwordless (OTP or Magic link based).

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Hey, I am trying to build supertokens (cli) from source and to make it work with postgres. I followed https://supertokens.com/blog/connect-supertokens-to-database#running-supertokens-and-postgresql-without-docker  but can't find /usr/lib/supertokens/config.yaml in mac. I suppose it is /usr/local/etc/supertokens/config.yaml. but doing that too did not connect to the db (still connecting to in-memory-db). what might be happening? - basically, I am unable to make it work by just adding `postgresql_connection_uri`  to config.yaml. I am building from source, is there anything else that needs taken care?

hey <@820595377673469953> can you print out the output of running `supertokens --help`?

```
supertokens --help

  You are using SuperTokens Community

  Usage: supertokens [command] [--help] [--version]


  Commands:

->  hashingCalibrate [options]          Used to calibrate the settings for
                                        password hashing algorithms for a
                                        specific machine
->  uninstall                           Uninstalls SuperTokens
->  stop [options]                      Stops all (if no options are provided)
                                        or one specific instance of SuperTokens
->  start [options]                     Start an instance of SuperTokens
->  list                                List information about all currently
                                        running SuperTokens instances


  Files:

    Installation location               /usr/local/etc/supertokens/
    Default config file                 /usr/local/etc/supertokens/config.yaml
    Legal license                       /usr/local/etc/supertokens/LICENSE.md

Thank you for checking out SuperTokens :)```

right. So you need to edit `/usr/local/etc/supertokens/config.yaml`.

And make sure to remove the leading `#` from the variable you set in the config.yaml file

I checked by downloading the build from https://supertokens.com/use-oss and it works as expected. It means I am not building it properly from the source (i.e. by running `java -classpath "./cli/*" io.supertokens.cli.Main true install`  inside my cloned repo) to be used with postgres. e.g. config.yaml of supertokens-core's master branch doesn't contain postgres_* configs. what am I missing?

if you want to build from source, see this: https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core/wiki/Building-from-source

following this only. I was hoping if there was a way without docker.

You can ignore the "Creating a docker image" part

I solved it by using postgresql-plugin in modules.txt. Thanks for the help. ✌️