Re: registerDriver()

[Sean Breslin]

Thank you, that link has helped me understand how this works. The problem, however, was that my router was blocking the port I tried to connect on... Incredibly stupid mistake.

Now that I'm not having that problem, I'm getting the other message that I mentioned when I tried another ISP...

Here are the lines of code creating the error:

String connString = "jdbc:mysql://myurl.com:6998/dbname?user=user&password=pass&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8";
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(connString);

And the error created:

Communications link failure due to underlying exception:

** 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:151)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:280)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:1774)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:437)
at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:268)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at Project$Connect.<init>(Project.java:583)
at Project.<init>(Project.java:27)
at Project.main(Project.java:152)


** END NESTED EXCEPTION **