On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:05:26AM -0400, Sergiu
Dumitriu wrote:
  Can you try to use this line instead?
 <property
name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/xwiki?useServerPrepStmts=false&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8</property>
 (the same as yours, but without the sessionVariables parameter, which
 isn't compatible with the latest version of the connector jar (a bug in
 the connector). 
 It did change the error... but still says something is invalid in the
 hibernate config:
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 type Exception report
 message
 description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling
this request.
 exception
 javax.servlet.ServletException: com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 3 in 0: Could
not initialize main XWiki context
 Wrapped Exception: Error number 3001 in 3: Cannot load class
com.xpn.xwiki.store.migration.hibernate.XWikiHibernateMigrationManager from param
xwiki.store.migration.manager.class
 Wrapped Exception: Error number 0 in 3: Exception while hibernate execute
 Wrapped Exception: invalid configuration
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processException(RequestProcessor.java:535)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:433)
        org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:236)
        org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196)
        org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414)
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        com.xpn.xwiki.web.ActionFilter.doFilter(ActionFilter.java:129)
org.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:152)
        com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.webdav.XWikiDavFilter.doFilter(XWikiDavFilter.java:68)
org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:218)
org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:112)
 root cause
 com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 3 in 0: Could not initialize main XWiki
context
 Wrapped Exception: Error number 3001 in 3: Cannot load class
com.xpn.xwiki.store.migration.hibernate.XWikiHibernateMigrationManager from param
xwiki.store.migration.manager.class
 Wrapped Exception: Error number 0 in 3: Exception while hibernate execute
 Wrapped Exception: invalid configuration
        com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.getMainXWiki(XWiki.java:424)
        com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.getXWiki(XWiki.java:493)
        com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:135)
        com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:115)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431)
        org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:236)
        org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196)
        org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414)
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        com.xpn.xwiki.web.ActionFilter.doFilter(ActionFilter.java:129)
org.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:152)
        com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.webdav.XWikiDavFilter.doFilter(XWikiDavFilter.java:68)
org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:218)
org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:112)
 note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.28
logs.
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 I find this in the logs:
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 Wrapped Exception:
 org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 130; columnNumber: 21; The content of element
type "session-factory" must match
"(property*,mapping*,(class-cache|collection-cache)*,event*,listener*)". 
This means the order of the xml elements is wrong in the file. You can check its DTD or
its schema.
Thanks
-Vincent