[opencms-dev] Installation problem

[Patrick Donker]

Giuseppe M. Fusco wrote:

> Hi,
> I've a problem configuring opencms, it cannot connect to MySQL, and 
> raises this exception:
>
> Could no connect to database via: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/
> java.sql.SQLException: Communication link failure: 
> java.io.IOException, underlying cause: Unexpected end of input stream

Did you select the correct Mysql version in the installer and have you 
tried to telnet to localhost port 3306 to see if mysql accept connections?

-Patrick