-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John,
John Pedersen wrote: | Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' This comes up quite often. Unfortunately, any number of bad configuration options can result in this message. | <Resource name="compatMYSQL" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" The resource name is usually of the form "jdbc/compatMYSQL". | factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory" You should not need to specify this, though it shouldn't hurt. | This arrangement works on my local machine, but it throws the error on my | hosting server ( private JVM, Tomcat 6, on *nix *Virtual* Private *Server ) Where is mysql-connector-x.y.z.jar installed on your local server? On the hosting server? Make sure that your JDBC library exists only in a single place on the server. For our projects, we put it in common/lib (on TC 5.5... I think it's just /lib for TC 6). | To fix it, I had to delete *META-INF/context.xml, and put the context info | in server.xml ( which the Tomcat documentation recommends NOT doing). Yeah, put it back into context.xml... it should work if everything else is okay. | After spending so long resolving this, I am curious as to why it happened. These things usually get resolved when the configuration is re-written. Some little tiny thing was typo'd or mis-copied or whatever and the re-write fixes everything. Nobody keeps the old config and bothers to do a diff, so the exact cause usually remains a mystery. :) - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgrJGsACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDq7ACguIqHUxG921HyIQmNl/DFE1l7 q1cAnixURkbRUBwWj1dDtksjoqDb7lP+ =I1i2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
