title: Sonar fails to connect to database
body: <p>I am using the following software:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Sonar 3.4.1</li>
  <li>Mysql 5.1</li>
  <li>Maven 2.2.1</li>
  <li>Tomcat 7</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I have a pom.xml file which I am trying to execute with Sonar but getting the follwing error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] Building asgard-bpm
  [INFO] task-segment: [sonar:sonar] (aggregator-style)
  [INFO] -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] [sonar:sonar {execution: default-cli}]
  [INFO] Sonar host: http://{host:8080}/sonar
  [INFO] Sonar version: 3.4.1
  [INFO] Execute: org.codehaus.sonar:sonar-maven-plugin:3.4.1:sonar
  [INFO] [sonar:sonar {execution: default-sonar}]
  [INFO] [14:34:54.474] Load project settings
  [INFO] [14:34:54.552] Install plugins
  [INFO] [14:34:56.674] Apply project exclusions
  [INFO] [14:34:56.674] Install JDBC driver
  [WARN] [14:34:56.736] H2 database should be used for evaluation purpose only
  [INFO] [14:34:56.736] Create JDBC datasource for jdbc:h2:tcp://host/sonar
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Can not execute Sonar
  
  Embedded error: Fail to connect to database
  Connection refused: connect
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have created a user in the DB with the username as 'sonar' and password as 'sonarsonar'.</p>
  
  <p>Created schema named 'sonar' and granted all privileges also.</p>
  
  <p>BELOW IS THE PROPERTIES SET IN THE SONAR.properties file.</p>
  
  <pre><code>sonar.web.host:                           {127.0.0.1}
  sonar.web.port:                           80
  sonar.web.context:                        /
  
  
  sonar.jdbc.username:                       sonar
  sonar.jdbc.password:                       sonarsonar
  
  sonar.jdbc.url:                                      {jdbc:mysql://host:3306/sonaruseUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=utf8}
  sonar.jdbc.driverClassName:                com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
  sonar.jdbc.validationQuery:                select 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone please tell me how to resolve this error.</p>