Setting up Confluence with mysql external database

Question

I am trying to setup new instances of Confluence 4.0 on a test server and a production server. Both are using mysql. I am encountering a problem when I hit the configure database step.

The following error(s) occured:

* Configuring the database failed. Couldn't create the database schema.
* Error creating bean with name 'macroIconManager' defined in class path resource [services/pluginServiceContext.xml]: cannot resolve reference to bean... (very long error message)

I have recreated the database from within mysql several times, the last time with the folowing:

CREATE DATABASE confluence CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;

I have a user setup for confluence named 'conuser', and I have granted permission on the database thusly:

GRANT ALL ON confluence.* TO 'conuser'@'%';

I have reviewed the following pages, and still don't see anything:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+For+MySQL

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Known+Issues+for+MySQL

Cliff Martin · Answer

I tired setting up Confluence 4.0 using Postgre 8.3.3, following these instructions and it still didn't work:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+for+PostgreSQL

So the setup is failing for both MySQL 5.1 and Postgres.

Colin Goudie · Answer

Are your instances of Confluence on the same machine as MYSQL? If not, are you creating the database and user from your Confluence machine or on the DB server? If so, try use mysql console on the Confluence machine to verify you can get to the server.

At the end of the day if you have username, password, host, port, database name etc.. correct then if Confluence is throwing an error then you either have a network connectivity issue or you don't have one of the above correct. Confluence connects fine to MySQL.

Cliff Martin · Answer

I have tried both with and without the password, also specifing a specific host, localhost and the wild card. no luck. The error message does suggest a permissions issue, but I have tried everything I can think of to address it.

I have done similar things with the jdbc connection string.