mySQL server problem

[Anon]

hallo,

I have just installed PHPtriad 1.02 The installation was succesfull and the apache server also seems to work. But I cannot start the mySQL server. In my DOS prompt I get the message: error 2003:cannot connect to mySQL server on localhost.

can somebody help me with this??

thanx,

TOm

[Anon]

Hi:
Have you tried running Winmysqladmin.exe. You should be able to find it in
c:\apache\mysql\bin.

This should start mysql

Rick

[mithril]

On WinNT and Win2K, MySQL expects the root directory to be c:\mysql (the default when you install using the binary from the MySQL site). If you installed MySQL into another directory, you must place a copy of my.cnf on the c:\ root and specify the MySQL installation directory with the base_dir directive. A samples copy of my.cnf should be in installation directory under the name my.cnf-example. If this is the situation in your case, the reason MySQL cannot start is because the files are missing (at least as far as MySQL is concerned🙂. Hope this helps!!!

Geoff A. Virgo

[aroderick]

Are you running mysql.exe to start the server? If so try running mysqld.exe.

That should work
Adam