com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure due to underlying exception
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008If you ever get this error:
com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure due to underlying exception:
** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION **
java.net.SocketException
MESSAGE: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
Just check your database configuration, e.g. in the case of mysql, enter the line:
skip-networking
in your my.cnf file