Did you put roller-custom.properties file in Tomcat/lib or classes folder of Tomcat? Did you put the mysql database driver jar file and activation.jar under Lib folder of Tomcat?
There is also a properties file under META-INF in roller under webapps. Try updating the settings over there and see if it works? Ambuj Tiwari wrote: > > INFO 2008-09-25 17:52:17,172 DatabaseProvider:successMessage - SUCCESS: > located JNDI DataSource [java:comp/env/jdbc/rollerdb] > ERROR 2008-09-25 17:52:17,192 DatabaseProvider:errorMessage - ERROR: > unable > to obtain database connection. Likely problem: bad connection parameters > or > database unavailable. > FATAL 2008-09-25 17:52:17,212 RollerContext:contextInitialized - Roller > Weblogger startup failed during app preparation > org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.startup.StartupException: ERROR: > unable > to obtain database connection. Likely problem: bad connection parameters > or > database unavailable. > at > org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.DatabaseProvider.<init>(DatabaseProvider.java:148) > at > org.apache.roller.weblogger.business.startup.WebloggerStartup.prepare(WebloggerStartup.java:171) > at > org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext.contextInitialized(RollerContext.java:138) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3618) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4095) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:755) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:880) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:843) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:474) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1063) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1011) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1003) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:420) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:1967) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:545) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:271) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:409) > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Harsh Gupta > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> Please, Post your log file here. >> >> >> Ambuj Tiwari wrote: >> > >> > I'm using below code in roller-custom.properties file. >> > >> > installation.type=auto >> > database.configurationType=jdbc >> > database.jdbc.driverClass=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver >> > database.jdbc.connectionURL=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/rollerdb >> > database.jdbc.username=scott >> > database.jdbc.password=tiger >> > mail.configurationType=properties >> > mail.hostname=smtp-server.example.com >> > mail.username=scott >> > mail.password=tiger >> > >> > I have also given all the privileges by executing below command >> > >> > grant all privileges on rollerdb.* to [EMAIL PROTECTED] identified by >> > 'tiger'; >> > >> > Still, i'm getting the same problem. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Harsh Gupta >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> True, Grant proper privileges to roller-db. Use the following command. >> >> >> >> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roller-db.* TO 'scott'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY >> 'tiger' >> >> WITH GRANT OPTION; >> >> >> >> >> >> tanuja v wrote: >> >> > >> >> > You can also check roller-custom.properties file. I had encountered >> >> the >> >> > same exception and found out from logs that I had a bad database >> >> > connection. >> >> > This was because I had missed some necessary lines of code in >> >> > roller-custom.properties file. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Oscar del Rio >> >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> Ambuj Tiwari wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> I installed Roller and configured it but when I' trying to open " >> >> >>> http://localhost:8080/roller/"; it gives me unexpected error. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Unexpected Exception Status Code 500 Message Roller Weblogger >> has >> >> not >> >> >>> been >> >> >>> bootstrapped yet Type >> >> >>> Exception Roller has encountered and logged an unexpected >> exception. >> >> >>> Can somebody tell me the reason for this? >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >> Check the log file, it might give you some hints of what went >> wrong. >> >> >> Last time I upgraded I had the same error and the reason turned out >> to >> >> be >> >> >> something corrupted in the database that I had to fix manually. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> View this message in context: >> >> >> http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-Start-Up-tp19645523s12275p19666859.html >> >> Sent from the Roller - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-Start-Up-tp19645523s12275p19682333.html >> Sent from the Roller - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-Start-Up-tp19645523s12275p19685719.html Sent from the Roller - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
