Hi!
This Access denied for user username@localhost means that your username at
localhost has to be in your mysql.user table. In that table you specify
what usres at what hostnames can connect to mysql.
Best regards,
Kovi
At 10:15 23.4.2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Amrinder Singh wrote:
> >
> > hi i've downloaded the mysql and loaded the driver(mm.nysql) driver for
> it.If i try to use it in a regular program without involving the
> server(tomcat3.2.1) it works fine . i can get the resultset etc which is
> fine. But when i created another applicatoin which involved the use of
> Tomcat it gives me error saying
> >
> > Started: 21:13:29.210 PM
> > Error: java.sql.SQLException: Invalid authorization specification:
> Access denied for user: 'username@localhost' (Using password: YES)
> >
> > i've looked at hundreds of webpages but nothing so far has revealed a
> suitable reaason and solution for it. one webpage said to put the jar
> file in WEB-INF/lib dir but in my version of tomcat3.2.1 theres no
> subdirectory as that .
>
>Well, you wrote the web application right? So technically no directories
>exist until you put them there :)
>
>Applications running in tomcat get can load their classes from three
>main locations, /jre/lib/ext (Standard installed extensions, don't use
>this as it's a nightmare to maintain, believe me!), /$TOMCAT_HOME/lib
>(for general drivers that everything should be able to see) and
>/$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/YOUR_APP/lib.
>
>So, the short answer (and I'm not even sure your problem is anything to
>do with this, but it's a faq anyway) is to create the 'lib' subdirectory
>and put the driver jar in it.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tom
>
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