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Cannot load JDBC driver

alfian_h — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 03:57:52 GMT

Hi,I am new when using Alfresco, I already install Alfresco alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-6.0.7-ga.zip.When I start my tomcat, I got error message that said Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'customPropertyEditorRegis

Re: Cannot load JDBC driver

douglascrp — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:20:20 GMT

Oracle database is only supported for the Enterprise edition of Alfresco.

I see you are using the Community edition, and in this case you will have to choose between MySQL or PostgreSQL.

Re: Cannot load JDBC driver

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 04:40:06 GMT

I am using aldresco community version 6.2.0 EA. I have already configured PostgreSQL JDBC and settings in alfresco global properties but still having the same error. (catalina.log shown)

Caused by: org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Failed to obtain JDBC Connection; nested exception is org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver'
	at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils.getConnection(DataSourceUtils.java:81)
	at org.alfresco.repo.domain.dialect.DialectFactoryBean.getObject(DialectFactoryBean.java:59)
	at org.alfresco.repo.domain.dialect.DialectFactoryBean.getObject(DialectFactoryBean.java:1)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:171)
	... 116 more
Caused by: org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver'
	at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:1429)
	at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1371)
	at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:1044)

Re: Cannot load JDBC driver

samuelw — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:41:13 GMT

@Anonymous

did you solve the issue?

I have the same problem (Debian 10/Tomcat 9).

Re: Cannot load JDBC driver

EddieMay — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:39:59 GMT

Hi @samuelw,

As this post has been marked as solved, I'd recommend starting a new thread.

HTH,