Installing OpenFire using SQL Express 2005 not working

Good afternoon,

After vieing the forum here i have tried desperatly to get open fire to work with sql express2005 with no luck.

I have setup new user called open fire, using management studio.

Created a new database called open fire and mapped user open fire to user created above. Set default schema to “db_owner”

there are no “owned” schemeas checked.

in the first security panel set the default db for user openfire to be openfire.

Went to setup open fire:

JDBC Driver class:net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver

Database URL: jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/openfire;appName=jive

username:openfire

password:openfire

hit enter: "A connection to the database could not be made. View the error message

by opening the “\logs\error.log” log file, then go back to fix the

problem "

here is the log:

2007.10.10 13:41:24 org.jivesoftware.database.ConnectionPool.(ConnectionPool.java:111) \ Failed to create new connections on startup. Attempt 1 of 3
java.sql.SQLException: Network error IOException: Connection refused: connect
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC2.<init>(ConnectionJDBC2.java:372 )
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC3.<init>(ConnectionJDBC3.java:50)
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver.connect(Driver.java:178)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at org.jivesoftware.database.ConnectionPool.createCon(ConnectionPool.java:443)
at org.jivesoftware.database.ConnectionPool.<init>(ConnectionPool.java:88)
at org.jivesoftware.database.DefaultConnectionProvider.start(DefaultConnectionProv ider.java:83)
at org.jivesoftware.database.DbConnectionManager.setConnectionProvider(DbConnectio nManager.java:459)
at org.jivesoftware.openfire.admin.setup.setup_002ddatasource_002dstandard_jsp._js pService(setup_002ddatasource_002dstandard_jsp.java:202)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:491)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.ja va:1074)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:11 8)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:52)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.ja va:1065)
at org.jivesoftware.util.LocaleFilter.doFilter(LocaleFilter.java:65)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.ja va:1065)
at org.jivesoftware.util.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingF ilter.java:41)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.ja va:1065)
at org.jivesoftware.admin.PluginFilter.doFilter(PluginFilter.java:69)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.ja va:1065)
at org.jivesoftware.admin.AuthCheckFilter.doFilter(AuthCheckFilter.java:98)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.ja va:1065)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:365)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:185)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:689)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:391)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollect ion.java:146)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:285)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:457)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:765 )
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:627)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:209)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:357)
at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:329)
at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:475)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.SharedSocket.createSocketForJDBC3(SharedSocket.java:2 89)
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.SharedSocket.<init>(SharedSocket.java:250)
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC2.<init>(ConnectionJDBC2.java:297 )
… 40 more

any ideas?

Add Instance=SQLEXPRESS to the end of the Database URL…

Database URL: jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/openfire;appName=jive;instance=SQLEXPRESS

Depending on your instance name, it may be something different than SQLEXPRESS