Symptoms

You are installing Bamboo with a MYSQL database, and during the database configuration you got an error that "Driver class can not be found in the class path".

Cause

JDBC Driver for MySQL is no longer bundled with Bamboo due to licensing restrictions from Oracle.

Resolution

Please follow the following steps:

1. Follow this link to download the driver http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
2. Unzip the file for the jar file
3. Shutdown Bamboo and place the jar file in the  {BambooInstall}/lib directory. If the directory doesn't exist, create one.
4. Restart Bamboo, and run the installation again.