Re: [xwiki-users] MySQL communication link failure

On September 23, 2005 17:03, Stéphane Laurière wrote: It installed fine here, after some hand work, but I don't remember I had this problem (my config is very similar although I use JBoss with embedded Tomcat). I found this link. Hope that can help in something, if ruling out some possible issues. link: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/cj-faq.html --------------------- extract from the above link ------------------------ 25.3.5.1.3: Question: I'm trying to use MySQL Connector/J in an applet or application and I get an exception similar to: SQLException: Cannot connect to MySQL server on host:3306. Is there a MySQL server running on the machine/port you are trying to connect to? (java.security.AccessControlException) SQLState: 08S01 VendorError: 0 Answer: Either you're running an Applet, your MySQL server has been installed with the "--skip-networking" option set, or your MySQL server has a firewall sitting in front of it. Applets can only make network connections back to the machine that runs the web server that served the .class files for the applet. This means that MySQL must run on the same machine (or you must have some sort of port re-direction) for this to work. This also means that you will not be able to test applets from your local file system, you must always deploy them to a web server. MySQL Connector/J can only communicate with MySQL using TCP/IP, as Java does not support Unix domain sockets. TCP/IP communication with MySQL might be affected if MySQL was started with the "--skip-networking" flag, or if it is firewalled. If MySQL has been started with the "--skip-networking" option set (the Debian Linux package of MySQL server does this for example), you need to comment it out in the file /etc/mysql/my.cnf or /etc/my.cnf. Of course your my.cnf file might also exist in the "data" directory of your MySQL server, or anywhere else (depending on how MySQL was compiled for your system). Binaries created by MySQL AB always look in /etc/my.cnf and [datadir]/my.cnf. If your MySQL server has been firewalled, you will need to have the firewall configured to allow TCP/IP connections from the host where your Java code is running to the MySQL server on the port that MySQL is listening to (by default, 3306).