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- Download connector for your version of MySQL
- If running mySQL 5.0-5.1
Download version 5.0.8+ from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.0.html - If running MySQL 5.1+
Download version 5.1+ from http://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
- NOTE: the version numbers do not directly align despite the way they appear to here
- If running mySQL 5.0-5.1
- Extract the file to /opt
- Copy mysql-connector-java-<version>-bin.jar to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib
- Delete the extracted folder