> On 7 Jan 2017, at 10:34, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote: > > I don't understand how you link it to Tomcat. Seems to be a MySQL thing only.
Indeed, I don’t understand either :) s/Tomcat/MySQL/ I see that Douglas has already updated http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/InstallationMySQL, cool :) I’ve added an alternative which is to use a more complex password. Thanks -Vincent > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: >> >>> On 6 Jan 2017, at 20:20, Douglas Landau <dougl...@westmarine.com> wrote: >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I am trying to install XWiki 8.4.3 in Tomcat 9.0.0.M15. >>> The instructions at >>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/InstallationMySQL say : >>> mysql -u root -e "grant all privileges on *.* to xwiki@localhost identified >>> by 'xwiki'" >>> >>> This was failing for me with a message about password complexity until I >>> said, in mysql, "uninstall plugin validate_password;” >> >> Interesting. Maybe Tomcat 9.x has a new feature to ensure that passwords are >> not too easy to guess. You’re the first one to report this but I guess not >> many users have moved to Tomcat 9 yet since it’s not final yet. >> >> It would be interesting if you could add that info to the xwiki page about >> Tomcat: >> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/InstallationTomcat >> >> In any case, thanks for reporting. >> >>> Apologies if this has already been raised here; I don't see a way to search >>> the archives yet. >> >> You can search archives here for example: >> http://xwiki.markmail.org/ >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>> >>> Thanks >>> Doug >>> >>> >>> The information contained in this transmission may contain West Marine >>> proprietary, confidential and/or privileged >>> information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. >>> If you are not the intended recipient, you are >>> hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication >>> of this communication is strictly prohibited. >>> If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply >>> email and destroy all copies of the original >>> message. To reply to our email administrator directly, please send an email >>> to netad...@westmarine.com. >> > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne
