MySQL - Not Connecting to DB

[jwshields]

Hello all,
I looked around for some posts about this but am not seeing anything regarding an issue like mine...
I am running Bukkit 1.11, MC 1.11, Dynmap 2.3, MySQL 5.5.53, Debian 8;
I just configured dynmap to use mysql for map storage, after previously having it as filetree.

I created a schema/DB in MySQL, but nothing is being populated. I checked the mysql connection manager and see that dynmap is NOT making a db connection, but I don't see any complaints in my Bukkit startup log.
Any insight would be much appreciated, thanks!

Here's a pastebin of my config: https://pastebin.com/ZU4DXcnb
Here's a pastebin of my the startup log from bukkit: https://pastebin.com/45dfDBHL

EDIT: Other plugins such as "AutoWhitelist" and "Statistics" are talking to the DB just fine.
https://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/statistics/
https://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/autowhitelist/

[jwshields]

Closing this issue ticket.

Fix:
Download the MySQL jar file from this URL: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
Unzip it, rename the jar to 'mysql.jar' move this file to {minecraft}/plugins/dynmap/mysql.jar

After this, start the server with the MySQL config, it should automatically connect to the DB and start doing its magic.

Proposal: possibly make a change to dynmap to allow it to use the CraftBukkit/Spigot SQL driver.