at the risk af asking the obvious, does the database "myDB" exist on the remote server at the same port number, and with the same username and pw as on the local server, and if so, does it have any IP address filters that forbid remote mysql client connections?
> -----Original Message----- > From: rahul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday 24 October 2005 15:26 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: problem in getting database connection from remote > machine using JNDI > > > Hi all, > > I am using tomcat JNDI for getting databse connection in my > application > > For this I have created a context.xml file in myAPP/META-INF > which looks like this: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <Context path="/myAPP" docBase="myAPP" debug="5" reloadable="true" > privileged="true" crossContext="true"> > <Resource name="jdbc/myAPP" auth="Container" > type="javax.sql.DataSource" maxActive="30" maxIdle="10" > maxWait="6000" > username="user" password="password" > driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" > url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myDB" removeAbandoned="true" > autoReconnect="true" > validationQuery="select now()" > factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"/> > </Context> > > > This works absolutely fine. But when I try to connect to a > remote database > by changing url in above > file to "jdbc:mysql://192.168.5.65:3306/myDB" my application fails > It creates following exception while retrieving a connection: > org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: > Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Unknown database 'myDB') > > > code I have written for fetching connection is: > > > Context ctx = (Context) new InitialContext() > .lookup("java:comp/env"); > if (ctx == null) > { > throw new Exception("No context available"); > } else > { > dataSource = (DataSource) ctx.lookup("jdbc/icontact"); > Connection connection = dataSource.getConnection(); > } > > > can anybody help? > > > thanks in advance > --RahulJoshi > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
