Error connecting crowd to MYSQL database.

[lhaynes4]

Using JDBC connection

the MySQL JDBC driver is in CROWD_INSTALL/apache-tomcat/lib

error is: The specified class was not found in the class path

[105349 · Accepted solution]

Hey Leslie!

Check out these links from people having similar issues:

Crowd installation: "specified class was not found in the class path"

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/9840

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/28168

[lhaynes4]

I restarted crowd and now I am able to connect to the database.  Thanks!

[105349]

Awesome!  Glad that it was something easy.  

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Check that the permissions on the driver file you have installed are correct, and that the file belongs to the same user as the other files in there.  That's the bit I forget to do every time.