title: Connect orbeon 3.8 to external exist database v. 1.4.1
body: <p>I am trying to connect Orbeon Forms to external exist database. So I added parameter</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;property as="xs:anyURI"
            name="oxf.fr.persistence.service.exist.uri"
            value="http://orbeon:secret@localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/orbeon/fr"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to <strong>properties-local.xml</strong> as written here <a href="http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/exist-configuration#TOC-Configuring-Form-Runner" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/exist-configuration#TOC-Configuring-Form-Runner</a> but that doesn't work, orbeon still trying to connect to embeded exist DB, and says that DB is already locked by some another DB instance (it's external exist instance). I was trying to change web.xml to turn off all embeded exist servlets, but still no result.</p>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong? </p>
  
  <p>May be there another configurations need to be changed?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks, for any reply.</p>