[Helma-user] New Helma User - database configuration problems

[Kevin Monceaux]

Fellow Helma Enthusiasts,

I discovered the existance of Helma yesterday and I'm trying to take it for
a spin.  I got to:

http://www.Helma.org/docs/tutorial/improve/

in the tutorial and have run into a problem.  Instead of getting a listing
of names in the addressbook I get a "This page cannot be displayed" with a
"HTTP 500 - Internal server error" error.  No errors appear on the Helma
console.  It appears to be a database problem.  I copied my db.properties
file to Helma's home directory and tried using sqlshell to make sure it was
set up correctly.  When I sign on to sqlshell my datasource is listed in the
datasource dropdown list.  If I select it and click the OK button I get:

Sorry, data source myDataSource is not defined for this application.

My db.properties file looks like:

myDataSource.url      = jdbc:mysql://localhost/addressbook
myDataSource.driver   = com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
myDataSource.user     = user
myDataSource.password = password

except the user and password are different.  I have MySQL's Connector/J JDBC
driver installed.  I've tried this on both a Gentoo Linux box and a FreeBSD
6.1 box.  I'm sure it's something simple I'm overlooking.  Any pointers on
what I might check?



Kevin
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