Common configurations of Neo4j

Neo4j is very flexible in terms of configuration, and it can be changed to achieve performance, security, and flexibility.

In this recipe, you will learn about the common configuration files of Neo4j.

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, install Neo4j using the steps from the earlier recipes of this chapter.

Before getting into the recipe, here are some important points that you need to consider:

The main configuration file can be found at conf/neo4j-server.properties
The default server logging configuration file is at conf/log4j.properties
Tuning parameters can be tuned in the conf/neo4j.properties file
The configuration file for a wrapper used in daemonizing can be found at conf/neo4j-wrapper.properties
The logging configuration for the HTTP protocol is found in the conf/neo4j-http-logging.xml file

The Neo4j shell can also be used to access a remote graph database. To do so, perform the following steps:

Neo4j comes with lots of configuration options, and by changing the parameters in different configuration files, you can configure each part of it.

To find out more about the configuration options, check out http://neo4j.com/docs/stable/server-configuration.html.

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