Confluence new installation - Will not start - The database driver (com.mysql.jdbc.Driver) was not f

[Bennie]

I have installed confluence 6.12 and postgresql 9.6 on SLES12.

Confluence will not start, giving me this error:

BootstrapException: Unable to bootstrap application: The database driver (com.mysql.jdbc.Driver) was not found in the class path.<br/>This Confluence installation cannot be upgraded automatically. Please see Confluence documentation:<br/>https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+For+MySQL

A while ago I had a test install (with the build in database) on this same server, which I removed.

Could there be some leftovers, from that previous test, that is causing problems now?

[Vickey Palzor Lepcha · Accepted solution]

Hello - I'm sorry I mentioned MYSQL as your url pointed to MYSQL DB .

But yes , the driver issue is common among most of them , you need a jdbc driver and your error also points to the same issue.

Also - here is the link to Postgres section of the documentation. It also asks you to get the respective driver file in place.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/database-setup-for-postgresql-173244522.html 

[Bennie]

hello, I think I solved the issue. I thought uninstalling would remove everything, but the app data under /var was not removed. So I removed that manually, did a fresh install and it is running.

[Vickey Palzor Lepcha]

Are your mysql driver present ? If not , download and copy/paste it under /libs and restart.

[Bennie]

Thank you for the reply.

Why would I need the mysql driver if I'm using Postgres?