[opencms-dev] Installation error

[Oiver Gasser]

Hello, 

when I try to install/configure opencms on my Suse Linux 9.1 I get the 
following message error:

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Could no connect to database via: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/
java.sql.SQLException: Unable to connect to any hosts due to exception: 
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION ** 

java.net.ConnectException
MESSAGE: Connection refused

STACKTRACE:

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:452)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:402)
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:309)
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:124)
	at 
com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:121)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:220)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:1768)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:440)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:400)
	at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:512)
	at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:171)
	at com.opencms.boot.CmsSetupDb.setConnection(CmsSetupDb.java:30)
	at 
org.apache.jsp.ocsetup.create_005fdatabase_jsp._jspService(create_005fdatabase_jsp.java:119)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:133)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
	at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:311)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:301)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:248)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:284)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:204)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:257)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:245)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:199)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:184)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:164)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:149)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:156)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:151)
	at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:567)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:972)
	at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:206)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:833)
	at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:732)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:619)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:688)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)


** END NESTED EXCEPTION **



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java.lang.NullPointerException

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I do not know how to bypass this. Does somebody have a solution to make my 
opencms working?
Thanks for any help

Oliver