[opencms-dev] Problems running the setup wizard

[Patrick Donker]

Patrick Donker wrote:

> Frans Postma wrote:
>
>> Trouble is the opencms (jdbc really) connects using a network, even 
>> to the local system. It seems your mysql database is either
>> a) not configured for port 3306
>> b) is configured to only accept local sockets
>> c) localhost is not properly listed in /etc/hosts
>>
>> Note that the error doesn't appear to be an opencms specific error 
>> but rather a problem between the java database connector and
>> your database. Which version of opencms do you use, which mysql 
>> version, on what platform, which webserver, which version of that
>> ??
>>  
>>
> Well, ok, I admit I was a bit scarce on the info. This is what I have 
> running:
> Debian 3, Apache 2.0.49, Mysql 4.0.21, Tomcat 5.5.9, Opencms 6.0b2, 
> Ant 1.6.2, jdk 5, jre 5....did I miss one?
> I can telnet to mysql on 3306, localhost is properly defined as I can 
> connect to Tomcat localhost:8080 and mysql root at localhost.
> Funny thing is though, that I restarted the whole lot and now I get a 
> different error, which is a HTTP Status 500, which points to a server 
> config error. I get this error on exactly the same moment as with the 
> other one; I enter userids, pwds, mysql stuff and database name. 
> Problem is that I am totally clueless on Java, so the error details 
> dont say mean much to me. Therefor I enclosed them:
>
> HTTP Status 500 -
>
> type Exception report
>
> message
>
> description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented 
> it from fulfilling this request.
>
> exception
>
For unknown reasons the setup suddenly finishes succesfully. Dont ask me 
why, it just did! Of sheer desperation I re-ran the setup wizard et 
voila, one fully functional OpenCMS.
Thanks for your thoughts guys...

-Patirck