Re: Fw: Tomcat 5.0.28 jdbc error "Name jdbc is not bound in this Context" on WindowsXP.

2013-01-22 Thread sryder
I thought you had hit the nail on the head of 5.0 vs. 5.5, but when I recoded the short form into the long form I still get the same error. I am ready to install a new Tomcat. Is there any reason to NOT go to most recent 7.x release? I realize that as long as I stay at Java 5 and MySQL 5 I

Re: Fw: Tomcat 5.0.28 jdbc error "Name jdbc is not bound in this Context" on WindowsXP.

2013-01-22 Thread sryder
conf is: Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat5.0/conf (where server xml resides). When I put context.xml in that directory, it seemed to be ignored. I did some experimenting moving it around and when I put it in: Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat5.0/conf/Catalina/loca

Re: Fw: Tomcat 5.0.28 jdbc error "Name jdbc is not bound in this Context" on WindowsXP.

2013-01-21 Thread sryder
Why don't you show us what you've got, and we can suggest some improvements? Thank you. This one is in localhost: WEB-INF/web.xml Below is near top of server.xml in conf directory name="UserDatabase" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"/> type="javax.

Re: Fw: Tomcat 5.0.28 jdbc error "Name jdbc is not bound in this Context" on WindowsXP.

2013-01-20 Thread sryder
"shouldn't it be easy to determine where the file should go in your development environment?" One would think so. On the linux environment it is under etc/Tomcat5.5/ the same directory as server.xml However, when I put it in the ...conf directory on Windows, it appears that it is ignored, in t