apache - james not picking up mysql connector jar

Question

I've tried doing a james [1] install on my amazon instance with MySQLas a back-end. I've MySQL connector mysql-connector-java-5.1.20.zip,unzipped and copied it to conf/lib and lib/ but when I start james with: $ sudo bin/james start it stops. Wrapper log shows: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

My james-database.properties looks like this:

database.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driverdatabase.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jamesdatabase.username= ** user name **

database.password= ** secret **vendorAdapter.database=MYSQL openjpa.streaming=false

I didn't change anything else.but james is not work.

Any helps ,Thanks!

Answer 1

I've managed to get mine apache-james-3.0-beta4 working setting database.url=jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/james?create=true