I am trying to bring up an XWiki instance of version 13.10.9, and tomcat fails on start with the below error in catalina.out
for missing JDBC driver class ‘org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver’. The Java is openjdk version “1.8.0_342”.
From the MariaDB Connector/J webpage, I downloaded mariadb-java-client-3.0.5-sources.jar
into directory $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/
, but the error still happens. So, I am unsure whether I downloaded the correct file.
I am unfamiliar with Java programming, any pointers will help me greatly.
1. Partial error message in catalina.out
:
...
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver'
at org.apache.commons.dbcp2.DriverFactory.createDriver(DriverFactory.java:54)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:459)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:525)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:731)
at com.xpn.xwiki.store.DBCPConnectionProvider.configure(DBCPConnectionProvider.java:225)
... 66 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:387)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
at org.xwiki.classloader.xwiki.internal.ContextNamespaceURLClassLoader.loadClass(ContextNamespaceURLClassLoader.java:176)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp2.DriverFactory.createDriver(DriverFactory.java:49)
... 70 common frames omitted
Cannot load JDBC driver class 'org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver'
...
2. Java Environment:
[root@hostname logs]# java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_342"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_342-b07)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.342-b07, mixed mode)