title: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'
body: <p>hi i am deploying my application in tomcat on linux machine bt i am getting error......
  i have putted mysql-connector-java-5.1.18-bin.jar in tomcat/server/lib folder.. </p>
  
  <pre><code>org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'
          at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:766)
          at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:540)
          at jdbchandler.JDBCHelp.getConnection(JDBCHelp.java:24)
          at requesthandlers.HandleLoginRequest.handleRequest(HandleLoginRequest.java:98)
          at web.Controller.doPost(Controller.java:38)
          at web.Controller.doGet(Controller.java:24)
          at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690)
          at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
          at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:525)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
          at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
          at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
          at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:200)
          at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291)
          at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:775)
          at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:704)
          at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:897)
          at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
          at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
          at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
          at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
          at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
          at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
          at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
          at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:760)
          ... 23 more
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>plz help</p>