Connecting SmartFoxServer and MySQL server
SmartFoxServer is a Java application and Java database connection driver is needed to connect from SmartFoxServer to MySQL database.
Downloading JDBC Driver for MySQL
JDBC is a Java database connection driver that we need to establish connections between the Java-based SmartFoxServer and the MySQL server. The JDBC driver for MySQL is called Connector/J. We are going to install it to enable MySQL connection from SmartFoxServer.
- Go to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.1.html in web browser.
- Download the Platform Independent Zip Archive.
- It may ask you to log in to MySQL.com account. Click on No thanks, just take me to the downloads! to bypass the login step.
- Choose a mirror to download by clicking ...
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