Hi Lewis,

Copying the pg.properties file to the server directory and renaming it config.properties is fine, but for future we recommend you using the ant command instead. This allows you to be able to switch between different databases if you have both MS SQL and PostgreSQL databases to access or if you have multiple databases within PostgreSQL or MS SQL. I have several different properties files that are for both PostgreSQL and MS SQL that I use for testing and I end up copying one of them to my pg.properties or mssql.properties file and then running the "ant pick_pg" or "ant pick_mssql" command for it to build my labkey.xml file and point to the correct server and database.

All of this information is within our dev machine instructions here: https://www.labkey.org/wiki/home/Documentation/page.view?name=build

Regards,

Jon