Problem using MySQL JDBC on Tomcat 5.5 and Ubuntu 8.04

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Vincent Kong

Normally when I build a web application that connects to a MySQL database, I would place the mysql-connector-java-bin.jar file into the WEB-INF/lib of the web application.

However, when I deployed the application on Tomcat 5.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 I got an exception: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

I couldn’t find the reason which caused the exception, so I did a quick fix by placing the jar file into the Tomcat’s common lib directory.

$ cp mysql-connector-java-bin.jar /usr/share/java
$ cd /usr/share/tomcat5.5/common/lib
$ ln -s ../../../java/mysql-connector-java-bin.jar mysql-connector-java-bin.jar

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