Christopher Schultz wrote: > Paul, > > On 3/3/2009 11:49 AM, Paul Maxted wrote: >> Good call P! I tried connecting to the database from the command line >> and was not able to. > > I'm surprised that this was the error. Usually, you'll get a message > like "SQLException: Cannot connect to database using password: NO" or > something like that. Perhaps you fixed two problems at once.
my money's on a stale context.xml. >> Another difference between Windows and Linux it >> seems as the user was defined the same in both cases. Now I have >> copied the user to use host 'localhost' as well as '@' and it works. > > AFAIK, MySQL doesn't use "@" to mean anything. "%" is used to mean "any > host", but localhost should also be defined. > > When in doubt, use the GRANT command. > >> I have to say that the exception thrown is just a little misleading >> (typical British understatement there!) > > This exception message is so irritating because it provides absolutely > no information at all. It suggests that the driver class name is null, > but that's not the case. This issue comes up again and again on the > list, and nobody is ever really sure what the ultimate "fix" is. In my > case, simply re-entering the configuration from scratch seems to be the > best thing to do (and check those JARs). maybe the DBCP replacement (o.a.tomcat.jdbc.pool) Filip is working on will improve on this... p > -chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
