Hi -- I've been following the installation instructions for the war file, and am at the point of trying to get the app going. It will not start because tomcat reports the following error shown below. I have modified my context.xml to have correct user name/password entries, and I have used mysql client to verify that the users can access the jasperserver,sugarcrm, and foodmart DBs. Any suggestions? Thanks Betty ---------------------------------------- 11:35:32,281 WARN JDBCExceptionReporter,Thread-1:71 - SQL Error: 0, SQLState: null 11:35:32,281 ERROR JDBCExceptionReporter,Thread-1:72 - Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Server connection failure during transaction. Due to underlying exception: 'java.net.SocketException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect'. ** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION ** java.net.SocketException MESSAGE: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect STACKTRACE: java.net.SocketException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:156) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:276) at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:2815) at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:1531) at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:266) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:37) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.PoolableConnectionFactory.makeObject(PoolableConnectionFactory.java:290) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.validateConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:877) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:851) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:540) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider.getConnection(LocalDataSourceConnectionProvider.java:81) at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:72) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:1881) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1174) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.newSessionFactory(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:885) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(LocalSessionFactoryBean.java:797) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:860) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:829) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:238) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:148) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:247) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:331) at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:155) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:240) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:178) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3763) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4211) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:608) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:535) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:470) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432) ** END NESTED EXCEPTION **