Re: tomcat doesn't deliver page on first call

2006-05-18 Thread Hugh Morgan
Newbie answer: Are you sure you are waiting long enough? The fisrt timre a page is requested tomcat does the compilation, and so it can take quite a while (a few seconds). After this the page is servered much quicker. HTH, Hugh Abid Hussain wrote: Hi everybody, After restarting Tomcat (5

Re: Help with Tomcat & MySQL using JNDI

2006-05-18 Thread Hugh Morgan
Stephen More wrote: Is there a war file available for download that will do nothing more than: select 'HelloWorld from MySQL'; using JNDI ? I have tried following many examples on the web and I keep ending up with: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' At this poin

Re: Newbie: Deploying .war file, getting it working with MySQL

2006-05-18 Thread Hugh Morgan
I have finally fixed this problem. It was to do with the Resource tags name parameter in server.xml not matching the res-ref-name tag in the applications WEB-INF/web.xml file. Thanks for all the patient help I got here. Hugh Morgan

Re: Newbie: Deploying .war file, getting it working with MySQL

2006-05-08 Thread Hugh Morgan
Pascal wrote: Hello Do you tried to connect to your databse normaly (I mean without tomcat) to see if your user/pwd and database are set correctly in Mysql Like this for example #mysql -uUSER -pPASSWORD DATABASE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~/temp/java]# mysql -uroot -pROOT_PASSWORD smsserver Reading

Re: Newbie: Deploying .war file, getting it working with MySQL

2006-05-08 Thread Hugh Morgan
David Smith wrote: Yes, authority in the url is the name of the database being accessed. URL syntax looks something like this: jdbc:mysql//[DNS_name|IP][:portNum]/database portNum is 3306 if not specified and you can add a ? and connect options after the database name as needed. I have made

Re: Newbie: Deploying .war file, getting it working with MySQL

2006-05-08 Thread Hugh Morgan
Franck Borel wrote: Try this: usernameroot passwordROOT_PASSWORD driverClassNamecom.mysql.jdbc.Driver urljdbc:mysql://localhost/authority Same error (after changing paramater ;) ). Did make me think though, what is authority? Should I have cganged this (to the name of

Re: Newbie: Deploying .war file, getting it working with MySQL

2006-05-08 Thread Hugh Morgan
Franck Borel wrote: Where did you place your Realm block? It must be placed inside the context block like this: I did not have it here, I had it in the Engine tag. I have now changed it, and stoped and restarted the server. I still get the same error. The relavent bit of my server.

Re: Newbie: Deploying .war file, getting it working with MySQL

2006-05-08 Thread Hugh Morgan
Franck Borel wrote: Have you set the entry unpackWARs true like this ? Yes, that is exactly what my Host tag looks like, and the war file is unpacked correctly; Thanks for the help. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

Re: Log Files

2006-05-08 Thread Hugh Morgan
Michael McQuade wrote: Newbie question here folks I read in previous mails that there is a Catalina.out file Is this an error logging file? I looked in my Tomcat directory for it, but I do not have one If its not, do I need to Enable error logging files somehow Or, are they th

Re: Newbie: Deploying .war file, getting it working with MySQL

2006-05-08 Thread Hugh Morgan
Franck Borel wrote: Have you installed a mysql-connector? --> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/3.0.html - unpack - find a file called mysql-connector-java-..jar - copy this file into the common/lib directory of your Tomcat installation -- Franck On the VPS there is already the

Newbie: Deploying .war file, getting it working with MySQL

2006-05-08 Thread Hugh Morgan
I am tring to get an web site that I have developed with Java Studio Creator working on a VPS. I cannot get tomcat to comunicate with the MySQL database. I have got a minimal web site working, and I have added a simple dtabase query to it and I get the error at [1] (for full error see http://