<div dir="ltr">The error was misleading.  The userSessionPersister needed to be mongo instead of jpa.  The documentation said: &quot;<a id="d4e4228" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;,Geneva,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:justify"><p style="display:inline!important">However in all cases, you will need to update<code class="" style="font-size:0.9em;font-family:courrier,monospace;white-space:nowrap">standalone/configuration/keycloak-server.json</code> and add <code class="" style="font-size:0.9em;font-family:courrier,monospace;white-space:nowrap">userSessionPersister</code> like this:&quot;</p></a><div><br></div><div><a id="d4e4228" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;,Geneva,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:justify"><pre class="" style="font-size:0.9em;font-family:courrier,monospace;overflow:auto;padding:5px 15px 5px 25px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">&quot;userSessionPersister&quot;: {
    &quot;provider&quot;: &quot;jpa&quot;
},</pre></a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Dean Peterson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:peterson.dean@gmail.com" target="_blank">peterson.dean@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I get this error when migrating my database and upgrading to 1.9.3:</span><div style="font-size:12.8px">&quot;Property &#39;databaseSchema&#39; needs to be specified in the configuration</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I have this in my keycloak-server.json file:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div>&quot;connectionsMongo&quot;: {</div><div>        &quot;default&quot;: {</div><div>            &quot;host&quot;: &quot;xx.xx.xx.xx&quot;,</div><div>            &quot;port&quot;: &quot;27017&quot;,</div><div>            &quot;db&quot;: &quot;keycloaktest&quot;,</div><div>            &quot;databaseSchema&quot;: &quot;update&quot;</div><div>        }</div><div>    }</div></div></div>
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