At 11:48 AM -0500 11/1/01, David Smith wrote: >An additional note on the & character in the connection URL for MySQL... > >XML syntax is going to require the & character be encoded as & so the >real URL should loo something like: > >jdbc:mysql://localhost/authority?user=test&password=test > >This is how I had to write it in my server.xml file. Works like a charm. >The encoding does not have to be done in regular JSP or java files. Only XML >files like server.xml require this. Everywhere else, just use an & character. > >--David Smith
Quite right. I neglected to mention that. Thanks for pointing it iout. > >On Thursday 01 November 2001 11:16 am, you wrote: >> At 1:51 PM +0100 11/1/01, Andrius wrote: >> >Hello, >> > What's the correct MySQL jdbc connection url? I'm trying to setup >> >jdbcRealm on tomcat 4.0.1, >> > and using this url pattern : >> >connectionURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/authority?user=test;password=test" >> > but it goes wrong - it says "Invalid authorization exception: Access >> >denied for user: 'test;password@host'. >> > I've configured server side permissions properly (mySQL accepts using >> >another client). thanx for any response. >> > >> >obj. >> >> Only very old versions of the MM.MySQL driver accept ; as a parameter >> separator character. Current versions accept only & as the separator. >> >> If any of the Tomcap developers happen to read this: >> >> Note that the server.xml file that ships with Tomcat 4.0.1 (and probably >> earlier versions as well) is mistaken on this point. The relevant >> section looks >> like this: >> >> <!-- >> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" debug="99" >> driverName="org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver" >> >> connectionURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/authority?user=test;password=test" >> userTable="users" userNameCol="user_name" >> userCredCol="user_pass" userRoleTable="user_roles" roleNameCol="role_name" >> /> >> --> >> >> The connectionURL line should be fixed to say this instead: >> > > connectionURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/authority?user=test&password=test" -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
