Archive for October 5th, 2007

Plesk, Apache, Tomcat and multiple hosts

Friday, October 5th, 2007 by DenisH

In addition to having problems with JNDI not working properly, I’ve also been bashing my head against Plesk–that is supposedly “designed to simplify the management and administration of web sites”.

It’s the interaction between Plesk and Tomcat that’s the particular problem and how both of them negotiate dealing with multiple domains (or rather don’t deal with it). (more…)

JNDI problems with Tomcat 5.5.15

Friday, October 5th, 2007 by DenisH

I’ve recently been having difficulty getting JNDI lookup for MySQL connection pools working on our public server.

This proved very difficult to track down as all the stuff that I could find on the web said that I had to have:

  • commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar
  • commons-pool-1.2.jar
  • mysql-connector-java-3.1.6-bin.jar

(or the latest appropriate versions)

Unfortunately this didn’t work and my little test JSP (using the JSTL sql tags) just gave me the error: DataSource invalid:
“java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver.

However, next I tried connecting to MySQL directly using Class.forName(""com.mysql.jdbc.Driver") and that worked. So the problem wasn’t in loading the driver. (more…)