Patric,
Please follow this instruction guide -
http://www.mifos.org/knowledge/install-guide/
It lays out the specific steps you need to make with MySQL and configuration
settings for Mifos to connect to the database.
Ryan
On 7/2/10 20:02, "Patric Kiumbe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks so much Ryan,
> Sorry, i missed, am using mysql 5.1.48
> You have pointed out some important ideas that i think are a preliquisite for
> mifos, my installation was:
> Apache and mifos are under a folder called Mifos Install i.e.
> C:\Mifos Install
> I have installed JRE instead of JDK but am aware both can allow
> mifos to operate so long as its not for developing mifos
> while configuring mysql, i didnt set any user or password but
> instead used root with no password
> i have no idea what local.properties and
> applicationConfiguration.custom.properties files are.
> About the guide, i followed instructions at
> http://www.mifos.org/knowledge/install-guide , printed a copy to repeat
> installation for several times.
> pls guide me on how to set up the files u mentioned and will having no
> password affect my settings for mifos.
>
> regards
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Whitney <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Patric,
>>
>> Mysql Version 5.0.43 is still the wrong version. You need to upgrade to
>> Mysql 5.1.x.
>>
>> I personally don¹t believe the Mifos installation is difficult, but it is an
>> enterprise application and does expect that users are familiar with the setup
>> and installation of databases and web applications. In that case it can
>> prove to be difficult to people unfamiliar with this type of software. I
>> would recommend reading some tutorials or introduction documents on MySQL and
>> Tomcat on the web, that might help.
>>
>> Also, as we noted in our first e-mails to the log you posted, it looks like
>> there was an issue with Mifos being able to connect to your MySQL instance.
>> That would most likely indicate that there may be an issue with the setup of
>> the database in Mifos or that your connection settings in local.properties is
>> wrong. It could also indicate that your system has not been setup to look
>> for the mifos configuration files in the right place.
>>
>> Here would be my first set of questions
>>
>> 1. Where did you place the local.properties and
>> applicationConfiguration.custom.properties files?
>> 2. Did you point to the correct location in your environment variables (If
>> you don¹t know what I mean, do some research for your selected OS)
>> 3. Did you install mifos into a database named mifos¹, with the user mifos¹
>> and a password of mifos¹ (this is generally the default that Mifos tries to
>> access)?
>> 4. If you changed any of those settings, are they set correctly in the
>> local.properties file?
>>
>>
>> If you are installing on Windows, are you using this guide? -
>> http://www.mifos.org/knowledge/install-guide
>>
>> Best,
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/2/10 19:12, "Patric Kiumbe" <[email protected]
>> <http://[email protected]> > wrote:
>>
>>> i have completely changed everything to conform with the requirements i.e.
>>> am now using mysql version 5.0.43. but still the same error recurs. is it
>>> because am using mifos version 1.5 that am getting everything wrong or mifos
>>> installation is always complicated like this? I admire the software but the
>>> installation part is very complicated. is there any other method of using
>>> this mifos?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Udai Gupta <[email protected]
>>> <http://[email protected]> > wrote:
>>>> And one more thing.
>>>>
>>>> You are using mysql version 5.0.51b while it is recommended that Mifos
>>>> 1.5 should be used with MySQL 5.1.x.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Udai
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