Thanks for your reply. I've done what you said. Unfortunately I get the message in the CMD Window:
'MYSQLADMIN' is not a recognized as an internal or external command. Can you tell me what this means? I did run the installer earlier. Thank you. Joe. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Mynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:35 PM To: Joe Herman Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Can't figure out how to get it running The way I could tell that mysl is running is to (assuming that you are running windows): Click Start Click Run Type CMD Press Enter Type MYSQLADMIN PING Press Enter if you get the message "mysqld is alive", then it is running Thanks, Eric Network Administrator West Virginia Federal Credit Union On 9/2/05, Joe Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am just getting started with MySql and PHP (previously was just > designing web pages). I am very new to database-based web development. > > I installed IIS and PHP. I thought I installed MySQL as well but I > can't tell if it is working or not. I was told if I make a phpinfo.php > file and open it my browser I would see. Supposedly if there is a > listing for MySQL in the list that would mean it is running. There is > no listing of MySQL there. There are listings for other PHP items > however which I guess means PHP is running. > > I saw that in the bin folder of MySQL there is a program called > MySQLadmin. Whenever I try to run that a small black screen flashes > momentarily on my screen (kind of looking like a command line window) > and then it disappears without giving me a chance to even see what it > is. Actually this happens with every program in the bin folder. > > Would someone please tell me what I need to do to get MySQL to work? > Right now I am just trying to set things up so that I can start > learning PHP. Please help. > > Thank you. > > Joe Herman > New York City > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
