[opencms-dev] Database could not be created! Error connecting to database using: "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/"

[Michael Moossen]

Hi,

  remove following option from your /etc/sysconfig/mysqld (in my mandriva linux)
file:
       MYSQLD_OPTIONS="--skip-networking"
  and restart the service

-- 
Regards
Michael Moossen
Alkacon Software GmbH - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com



Quoting Jurvis LaSalle <lasalle at bard.edu>:

> Hi,
> 	I'm trying to install OpenCMS 6.0.0 on RHEL 4u1 with Tomcat5 and MySQL 
> 4.1.  I've installed the RH mysql-* packages and used the tomcat5 and 
> java-sun packages from jpackage.org for a complete rpm installation 
> (albeit with some rpmbuild action).  I can connect to 
> http://localhost:8080/opencms/setup and begin the initialization until 
> the db creation part.  I get the following error when selecting MySQL 
> 4.1 and entering root/pw for setup connection and opencms/pw for 
> OpenCMS connection and jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/ for connection 
> string:
> 
> 	Database could not be created!  Error connecting to database using: 
> "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/"
> 
> I've searched the list archive and tried the fixes suggested by others 
> with a similar problem to no avail.  I have created an opencms user in 
> mysql and verified that i can log in on the localhost as this user.  
> I've also increased the max_allowed_packet to 16M in my.cnf.
> 	Does this error give anyone some clues to what I've missed?  Is there 
> any other info I can provide?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Jurvis LaSalle
> 
> 
> 
> 
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