JDBC Request: Cannot load JDBC driver class’com.mysql.jdbc.Driver’ solution
Jun 22, 2022
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Just quick post to document a troublesome error when running Jmeter on Mysql
JDBC Request: Cannot load JDBC driver class’com.mysql.jdbc.Driver’ solution
Should be pretty simple, it’s just a question of putting the mysql-connector-java jar file, available at https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/, into the classpath for Jmeter. The easiest way for me is to put this into the jmx file:
<stringProp name=“TestPlan.user_define_classpath”> /Users/kyle.hailey/jars/mysql-connector-java-8.0.29.jar,/home/ec2-user/jars/mysql-connector-java-8.0.29.jar</stringProp>
Notice there is a space ” ” before the first jar file. Apparently the space was enough to cause the error. After removing the space , jmeter connected successfully to mysql.
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