No, there is no such restriction - I even tried installing new xwiki into a database named "xwiki_old" and it works OK. Your connection URL looks correct. Try looking into Tomcat (or whatever application server your are using) logs - you may find a more specific error message down the stacktrace. 2010/7/26 Maslak Jr., Michael <[email protected]>:
Is there a restriction that the database be named xwiki? I renamed the database to xwiki_old and changed the URL in the database configuration file to : <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/xwiki_old?useServerPrepStmts=false&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&sessionVariables=sql_mode=''</property>
XWiki would not start. Here is the stack trace: javax.servlet.ServletException: com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 3 in 0: Could not initialize main XWiki context Wrapped Exception: Error number 3202 in 3: Exception while reading document XWiki.XWikiPreferences Wrapped Exception: Could not create a DBCP pool. There is an error in the hibernate configuration file, please review it. 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) com.xpn.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:152) com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.webdav.XWikiDavFilter.doFilter(XWikiDavFilter.java:68) com.xpn.xwiki.web.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:304) com.xpn.xwiki.web.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 3202 in 3: Exception while reading document XWiki.XWikiPreferences Wrapped Exception: Could not create a DBCP pool. There is an error in the hibernate configuration file, please review it. com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.getMainXWiki(XWiki.java:374) com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.getXWiki(XWiki.java:435) 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) com.xpn.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:152) com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.webdav.XWikiDavFilter.doFilter(XWikiDavFilter.java:68) com.xpn.xwiki.web.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:304) com.xpn.xwiki.web.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:112)