Andre If not otherwise specified 3306 is the default port for mysql check to see if its occupied with netstat -a | grep 3306 If it is reconfig your port in my.conf to an available port
Martin Gainty ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:37:49 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: Servlets / JSP can't connect to MySQL in Ubuntu Server > > Krapacs Ambrose wrote: > > I have tried many different configurations and I have been unable to get > > my Servlets / JSP to connect to MySQL server running. I am trying to get > > this set up on my main server which is running Ubuntu 8.10 Server with > > MySQL 5 and Tomcat6. I also tried setting up a Ubuntu 8.04 server with > > Tomcat 5.5 and MySQL 5. I have even configured Tomcat running on the > > 8.10 server to try to connect to MySQL running on the 8.04 server. Still > > no luck! > > > > The exception that is thrown is here: > > com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: > > Communications link failure > Hi. > I know little about MySQL and JDBC, but the above seems to be purely at > the TCP/IP level : your JDBC driver cannot connect to your MySQL server. > > It seems from the above that you are connecting to "localhost" without > indicating a port. I thus suppose that JDBC is going to try the > "standard port" on which MySQL is supposed to be listening. > 1) So first of all, is that the case ? Is MySQL really listening on that > port ? (and first of all, is MySQL started ?) > (Try "netstat -n | grep LISTEN" to see all ports being listened on) > > 2) are your Tomcat and your MySQL server on the same system ? (since > you're trying to connect to "localhost") > > 3) if yes, on that system, when you try "ping localhost", what does it > show you ? > > 4) finally, on the same system, try "telnet localhost xxxx", where xxxx > is the port where MySQL is supposedly listening. What do you see then ? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_access_112008
