Servicestack MySql connection string - database-connection

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to create a connection string in Servicestack for (in this case) MySql.
The question is: what is the connection string in Web.config supposed to look like ?
I stumbled on two ways:
1)
<appSettings>
<add key= "ConnectionString"
value= "Uid={User};
Password={Password};
Server= {EndpointUrl};
Port= {EndpointPort};
Database= customers" />
</appSettings>
and
2)
<connectionStrings>
<add name="testDb"
connectionString=
"Server= localhost;
Database= test;
UID= root;
Password= test"
providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
The question above is due to the fact that I have had a hard time to find an answer to this (apparently trivial) question. The answers I find are usually answering more complicated problems.
The Servicestack dokumentation looks like it's tuned to a rather more experienced audience than myself. Not by much but just, I'm a rookie at this.
This is a general problem I guess, in any documentation of a system. It's easy to go blind when it comes to fundamentals. What's self-evident to me is complicated for the next person.

Answer 1

A connection string should contain your database connection in a single string, this is an example of a MySql connection string to the “test” database on “localhost”:
Server=localhost;Database=test;UID=root;Password=test;SslMode=none
You can use this as a template and replace it with the parameters with your database info.
You can add this in your web.config with:
<add key="ConnectionString"
value="Server=localhost;Database=test;UID=root;Password=test;SslMode=none" />
Which you can then access with ServiceStack's AppSettings API:
container.Register<IDbConnectionFactory>(c => new OrmLiteConnectionFactory(
AppSettings.GetString("ConnectionString"), MySqlDialect.Provider));