unable to start MySQL

[wood1e]

Hi,

I have just installed, PHP, Apache, on my WinXP Pro machine. I then went to install MySQL, which appeared to go well...

I went into MySQL folder and opened up winmysqladmin, and clicked on Start...the response I got was unable to start try again in 30 seconds...

Don;t know if this has anything to do with it, but in the books and help pages I have got, they all mention a log on page, to enter username and password, I have not seen this.

Can anyone help?

Wood1e

[godzilla]

Please write me an e-mail if the following will not help.

In the XP go to the Service management Panel and check if MySQL is started as a service(it should, if install went trough).

Then if you really want to manage some staff on SQL get your self QueryBrowser from MySQL: it allows to create dbs(schemas) tables etc.

winmysql is just a basic utility to manage some db functions and show stats about mysql server.