Thanks, Gregor. Tried this exactly, but still get the same error unfortunately -
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name jdbc is not bound in this Context at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:770) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:153) at org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceLinkFactory.getObjectInstance(ResourceLinkFactory.java:97) at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:304) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:793) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:140) And in the logs: SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name jdbc is not bound in this Context at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:770) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:153) at org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceLinkFactory.getObjectInstance(ResourceLinkFactory.java:97) at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:304) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:793) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:140) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:781) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:153) at org.apache.jsp.chngctrl.chgctrl_005fdetails_jsp._jspService(chgctrl_005fdetails_jsp.java:148) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:433) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:845) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) -----Original Message----- From: 2smart4u [mailto:rc4...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:35 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: DB connection error -Tomcat 6 config Resource-Ref is definately 2.3-standard. Here's a configuration we're running in production. Adapt it to your needs, should work with TC 5.5 and 6.x: META-INF/context.xml: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <Context> <Resource auth="Container" description="somedescr" name="jdbc/someName" type="javax.sql.DataSource" factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" <-- your driver here username="someUser" password="somePass" url="jdbc:mysql://db:3306/someDB" <-- your url here maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000" maxActive="10" validationQuery="SELECT 1" testOnBorrow="true" testWhileIdle="true" timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="10000" minEvictableIdleTimeMillis="28800" poolPreparedStatements="true" removeAbandoned="true" removeAbandonedTimeout="300" logAbandoned="false"/> </Context> You don't habe to specify the DS in your deployment-descriptor (web.xml) at all. Within your servlet / jsp, your get a handle from the DS as follows: Context env = (Context) new InitialContext() .lookup("java:comp/env"); DataSource dbDS = (DataSource) env.lookup(dataSourceName); HTH Gregor -- just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you... gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371 @ http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/ skype:rc46fi --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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