diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/cheapy/configuration/SecurityConfiguration.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/cheapy/configuration/SecurityConfiguration.java
index 094b2ba9d..2fbdc84ad 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/cheapy/configuration/SecurityConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/cheapy/configuration/SecurityConfiguration.java
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import org.springframework.security.crypto.password.PasswordEncoder;
 @EnableWebSecurity
 public class SecurityConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
 
-	@Autowired(required = false)
+	@Autowired
 	DataSource dataSource;
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.properties b/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 03c2f5c98..3962c5e57 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ spring.datasource.data=classpath*:db/${database}/data.sql
 spring.h2.console.enabled=true
 spring.profiles.active=mysql
 spring.datasource.url=${MYSQL_URL:jdbc:mysql://localhost/cheapy?serverTimezone=UTC}
+spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver
 # Web
 spring.thymeleaf.mode=HTML