diff --git a/src/main/tomee/conf/tomee.xml b/src/main/tomee/conf/tomee.xml
index 0a0dbc52..36f21572 100644
--- a/src/main/tomee/conf/tomee.xml
+++ b/src/main/tomee/conf/tomee.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <!-- 
 	<Resource id="MySQL" type="DataSource">
 		JdbcDriver com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
-		JdbcUrl	jdbc:mysql:/localhost/commafeed?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8
+		JdbcUrl	jdbc:mysql://localhost/commafeed?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8
 		UserName cf
 		Password cf
 		MaxActive 50