Re: Squirrel trouble..

There's a Postgres setting to turn on network connections, which you 
need turned on for JDBC connections. I suspect that's your problem.

Geeta Ramani wrote:

>Hi everyone:
>
>I am trying to get Squirrel up and running and am following the steps
>outlined in the quick-start.html in the jasic.squirrel folder.  i am
>having trouble with creating the Alias. here's what i have for the
>values:
>
>Name: basicportal1
>Driver: PostgreSQL
>URL: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/basicportal
>user name: bpuser
>password: password
>
>When i hit "Test" on the "Alias" window I get the foll. exception:
>
>java.sql.SQLException: Unable to create connection. Check your URL.
>..etc.
>
>So I am guessing the url above is wrong..;) Can anybody tell me what the
>url should look like?
>
>Thanks!
>Geeta
>P.S. Btw, I have the postgres server up and running and have already run
>the scripts in the bin folder so i know the users etc have been created.
>(the createuser.sql is where I got the username and password ..) Also
>from the command prompt, I can execute "psql basicportal" which gives me
>the required welcome message and a "basicportal=#" prompt. What am i
>doing wrong? Please help!!!
>
>
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