RE: what is url rewriting

2002-08-14 Thread Jan Willem Penterman
I'd say make it work the other way around. If you want those URL's to be meaningful to the servlet (think search engines or referring to a specific call to your servlet), you'd have to do that anyway. So instead of trying to rewrite the URL in the addressbar, you make your servlet generate the

JDBC MySQL again

2002-08-12 Thread Jan Willem Penterman
Hi, I searched the archives for a solution to my problem, but couldn't find any. Like many, I keep getting the following error: SQLException: Cannot connect to MySQL server on localhost:3306. Is there a MySQL server running on the machine/port you are trying to connect to?

RE: JDBC MySQL again

2002-08-12 Thread Jan Willem Penterman
generally, if you see this problem, your driver is loaded correctly; however, it is unable to connect to your mysql server. i would test this by trying to telnet to port 3306 on localhost and see if you get a connection. if you don't, you need to make sure your mysql is allowing

RE: JDBC MySQL again

2002-08-12 Thread Jan Willem Penterman
yay! do i get a medal or something? ;-) Yes you get a medal. Only thing is that it is so incredibly heavy that I can't send it by mail. You have to come pick it up at our office in Amsterdam :P O and I gave my thanks to Hoang, but I was mistaken. Thanks Peter! [off-topic] Is that also