[opencms-dev] Trouble connecting to MySQL during wizard setup

[David De Graff]

When trying to set up OpenCms with the setup wizard, I get the following
error at the database creation step:

>>
Could no connect to database via: jdbc:mysql://tomcat:3306/
java.sql.SQLException: Cannot connect to MySQL server on tomcat:3306. Is
there a MySQL server running on the machine/port you are trying to connect
to? (java.security.AccessControlException)

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java.lang.NullPointerException

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<<

I'm running Tomcat 4.04 with Sun JDK 1.4.1 and MySQL 3.23.55 on Debian 3. I
have tried the connection to 'localhost' and using the actual hostname of
the server, and have also made sure to enable networking for the MySQL db.
Still no connection after these changes.

Any ideas as to what might be wrong and how to troubleshoot it?

Is there a simple and definite way to test that jdbc is installed correctly
and is configured to enable connections to MySQL?

Thanks for any help.

Dave De Graff