On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 15:44 -0700, dnk wrote: > Ok, having a look in there, and the things that stick out at me are: > > > INFO: Deploying web application archive alfresco.war > 07:34:00,712 User:System WARN [remoting.rmi.RmiRegistryFactoryBean] > Could not detect RMI registry - creating new one > 07:34:02,499 User:System INFO [domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema > managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect. > 07:34:02,811 User:System INFO [domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No > changes were made to the schema. > 07:34:29,783 User:System ERROR [web.context.ContextLoader] Context > initialization failed > org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Bootstrap failed ---- also...make sure you follow the instructions on that web page that you linked to about... mysql-connector-java [root at localhost alfresco]# tar -xzf mysql-connector-java-5.1.5.tar.gz [root at localhost alfresco]# cd mysql-connector-java-5.1.5 [root at localhost alfresco]# cp mysql-connector-java-5.1.5-bin.jar /usr/share/java/ [root at localhost alfresco]# cd /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed/ [root at localhost alfresco]# rebuild-jar-repository /var/lib/tomcat5/common/endorsed mysql-connector-java-5.1.5-bin.jar As these are essential to getting it to connect to MySQL Craig