Hi folks When people ask me why I haven't done stuff this month, I'll tell them I was ambushed by a wookie...Anyway, ancient HP box, Tomcat 5.5 binary install, recently patched XP, Mysql from XAMPP install, Java up to date from web updates:
1. Downloaded head for wookie server from getwookie.org 2. Unpacked and copied wookie subdirectory into webapps 3. Configured tomcat-users xml 4. Created database with Mysql query browser (yes, I'm lazy) 5. Created mysql java user with Mysql admin and granted all possible rights (see above, I'm not a skilled DBA) Noticed that wookie is started in tomcat manager. Surfed to http://localhost:8080/wookie gives a 500 error. Look in tomcat log and noticed lots of whining about mysql stuff: 17:49:05,906 WARN BasicResourcePool:1841 - com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.basicresourcepool$acquiret...@12c08c7 -- Acquisition Attempt Failed!!! Clearing pending acquires. While trying to acquire a needed new resource, we failed to succeed more than the maximum number of allowed acquisition attempts (30). Last acquisition attempt exception: java.sql.SQLException: Access denied for user 'java'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:946) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:2941) Then look in hibernate.cfg.xml and change 'java' without a password to (yes, more laziness): <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.password">my-root-password</property> Reboot machine (incidentally, had to start tomcat service manually in control panel) and stop and start wookie. Now get a nice front page. So I do feel that there is something to examine in this particular setup detail, anyway. Best regards Hugh -- http://www.hughbarnard.org http://www.big-wave-heuristics.com/ http://www.hackney-environment-network.org.uk/
