Confluence will not start after upgrade from 6,11.0 to 6.12.0

[Strukton Service Account GIT]

I just upgraded confluence server from 6.11.0 to 6.12.0 however it will not start up. After the installation, confluence showed a screen indicating that our database was using an unsupported driver. I changed the driver class name from

<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver</property>

to

<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver</property>

However this did not help. Confluence is started through a batch file.

[Brant Schroeder]

What are you seeing in the Confluence logs as the error? 

You might also want to double check this article and make sure all your settings are correct: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/migrate-from-the-jtds-driver-to-the-supported-microsoft-sql-server-driver-in-confluence-6-4-or-later-939505122.html

[Strukton Service Account GIT]

Hi Brant,

Sorry for the late reply but i was enjoying my weekend.

Thanks for the link, i think i need to fix the connection URL because I am getting an error that no connection with the database can be made. I will check with our ICT department which settings are required.

I will keep you posted.

Regards Piet

[Brant Schroeder]

If all your settings are correct it might be a firewall rule.  Sounds like you are heading down the right path.

[Strukton Service Account GIT]

There were two problems:
1. We needed to access the database through a different port number
2. The database was accessed via a WIndows account, however there is no option to supply the domain; so it wasn't possible to log in. Our ICT department solved this by creating a SQL account with identical user name and password.

At the moment we are looking for a way to supply the domain in the connection url so that it's possible to log in with a Windows account.