>Hi!
>My connectionURL in server.xml now looks like this:
>"jdbc:mysql://localhost/auth?user=root&password=somepassword"
>
>and tomcat doesn't start up (although there is no error msg or anything) and
>when i execute tomcat stop i get the following exception:
>org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Next character must be ";" terminating
>reference to entity "password" and a stack trace follows...
>
>why is that?

I guess you should escape the "&" character in your connectionURL by replacing it with 
"&", as the XML parser will parse entities like "<" or "&quote;" or things like 
that...

Try

jdbc:mysql://localhost/auth?user=root&password=somepassword

instead, that should work...

np: Flanger - Nightbeat 1 (Midnight Sound)

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