NEWBIE: Cannot connect to MySQL db

[Joe Williams]

When using an XSP to connect to a MySQL database, I get an error, according to my WEB-INF/log/error.log: "Could not get the datasource org.apache.avalon.excalibur.datasource.NoValidConnectionException No valid JdbcConnection class available at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.datasource.JdbcConnectionFactory.newInstance (JdbcConnectionFactory.java:185)" I am running Cocoon 2.0.4, Tomcat 4.1.18, and Apache 2 on Red Hat 8.0, with MySQL 4.0 I followed the directions at http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=MySQL, installing mysql-connector-java-3.0.8-stable-bin.jar in $COCOON_HOME/WEB-INF/lib and $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib/ ... got the same error with the file in either place. In $COCOON_HOME/WEB-INF/web.xml I added the line: <!-- For MySQL Driver: -->         com.mysql.jdbc.Driver and also tried "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver" with the same effect. In cocoon.xconf, I added:   <jdbc name="DatabasePool">     <pool-controller min="5" max="10"/>     <dburl>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/DatabaseName</dburl>     <user>MyUsername</user>     <password>MyPassword</password>   </jdbc> where "MyUsername" and "MyPassword" belong to a valid MySQL user with privileges for the database (and all databases, in fact). Suggestions?