Error connecting to database

[Ajay Dham]

I am trying to install JIRA for the first time and am unable to connect to the database.  I keep getting the error message ' Error connecting to database.  No suitable driver found for jdbc:postgresql://http://xx:5432/jiradb'  

I am not a professional user when it comes to Linux.  I would really need step by step directions to resolve the issue here.  

I am running Cent OS 7 and as a database I opted to use Postgresql.  From my understanding and following the instructions, I thought the JDBC drivers for Postgres would be part of the install, but that doesn't seem like to be the case.

I went over to Jira website and downloaded the 'postgresql-9.4-1202.jdbc41.jar' JDBC driver, but I'm not 'exactly' which directory to upload it into.  I have created the users and db as indicated in the docs, but still no luck here.  What do i need to do to get to the next steps here.   Here are some images, not sure if they help, but here they are:

Any help here would be appreciated.  

[Christos Moysiadis]

@Ajay Dham Although i'm using MySql Db i think the place for the driver is the same ....

"C:\Atlassian\JIRA\lib" <--- This is my path where i have my "mysql-connector-java-5.1.46-bin.jar ".... 

Find where is this folder in your system and copy it inside the lib folder... 

Give it a shot and I hope i'm not answering wrong!

Best,

[Ajay Dham]

I'm on linux cent os, not windows.  Thanks for your help, i'll try to find this path on the linux side.

[Keri]

The default path for Linux installations is /opt/atlassian/jira/ so the drivers would be under /opt/atlassian/jira/lib

[Christos Moysiadis]

Thank you @Keri !

It is good to know although i use Windows, in case i have to use Linux sometime ;).

Kind Regards

Christos