[opencms-dev] HELP - Can't connect to Database

[Andras Balogh]

Hello,

You should used OpenCms6 not 5 if you are now evaluating it.
Lot of things have changed since v5.
If you want to stick to V5 user MySQL 3 or upgrade the jdbc driver.

Best regards,
Andras.

Gibson Stephen wrote:

> Can anyone help me?
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> I am setting up a Windows installation of OpenCMS for an evaluation
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> OS - Windows Server 2003 standard Edition
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> I have installed
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> JDK 1.4.2
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> Tomcat 4.1
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> MySQL 4.1
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> OpenCMS 5.0
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> I have set up JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_HOME.
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> Everything seems to be OK until I try and configure OpenCMS using 
> http://localhost:8080/opencms/ocsetup
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> This fails to connect to the database when trying to create the tables:
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> Could no connect to database via: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/
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> java.sql.SQLException: Communication link failure: 
> java.io.IOException, underlying cause: Unexpected end of input stream
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