Re: problem to connect to database

It means telnet has a different syntax. Try 'man telnet' if you're on
Unix/Linux. Then do the following:
  - you have to replace 'host' with the DNS name (or IP address) of your
computer running the postgres server;
  - use the syntax:

telnet your.host.address 5432

Than post the result, and hopefully the others can help again :)

HTH,
Csaba

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:38, Melanie Bergeron wrote:
> No, I can't :
> Connecting To host:5432...Could not open a connection to host on port 23 
> : Connect failed
> 
> What does that mean?
> 
> Melanie
> 
> Dave Cramer wrote:
> 
> >Melanie,
> >
> >Can you telnet into the connection ?
> >
> >telnet host:5432
> >
> >Dave
> >On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:49, Melanie Bergeron wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi all!
> >>
> >>I really need your help for this.  I installed the JDBC driver on my 
> >>machine by copying the jar file in C:\Program Files\Apache Software 
> >>Foundation\Tomcat 5.0\common\lib\pg73jdbc3.jar and set environment 
> >>variable CLASSPATH to this path.  I  create a JSP page (code below).  
> >>The first time I launched this JSP page, all was ok.  I don't use it 
> >>since last week but when I try to launched it yesterday, I got an error 
> >>to connecting database :
> >>
> >>Error establishing the connection : 
> >>Something unusual has occured to cause the driver to fail. 
> >>Please report this exception: Exception: {0}
> >>
> >>So, I don't think the error come from my code because it already work with the same code but I don't know what I do to cause this error now.  
> >>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >>Melanie
> >>
> >>
> >>-------code for jsp page---------
> >><%
> >>  /* Load the JDBC Driver */
> >>  try {
> >>    Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
> >>  }catch(ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
> >>    out.println("
Error loading driver " + cnfe + "
");
> >>  }
> >>  /* Define the connection URL */
> >>  String dbName = "gec_test";
> >>  String host = "localhost";
> >>  String postgresqlUrl = "jdbc:postgresql://" + host + "/" + dbName;
> >>  /* Establish the connection */
> >>  String username = "bergeron.melanie";
> >>  String password = "*****";
> >>  try{
> >>    Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(postgresqlUrl, 
> >>username, password);
> >>    ...
> >>    }
> >>    connection.close();
> >>  }catch(SQLException e){
> >>    out.println("
Error establishing the connection : " + e + "
");
> >>  }
> >>
> >>
> >>
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