Help, can't get 5.1 to start, fussing with it for many, many hours; here is what I sent to a friend, but he is a MAC user:
--------------------------------- Scott, I have been noticing on the web that people installing WAMPP and other combo packages are still having this issue, so I see no need to destroy my Apache or PHP since they both work fine. I followed this guys tutorial to the letter (except where he used 50 or 5.0, I used 51 or 5.1 respectively because I installed 5.1), its more of a custom install, you can see what's happening. http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/code/mysql-tutorial.htm Everything worked to the letter with no errors, until I got to #13 then when I try to log in like this: mysql -u root -p ( or using what he has because of the way he did it ... ) mysql -u root mysql I still get this error: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) no errors show up in the Windows "Event Viewer" as he refers to in step #11 if you receive errors at that point, (which I didn't), so I don't believe it is a Windows issue. port is open, nothing else blocking it, has to be a MySQL error ??? sucks too, because only a small bit of detail to finish once I am in root. I attached the "my.cnf" file, I see no errors in it, and I know its working because I tried to change the [mysqld-5.1] back to [mysqld-5.0] (as he has in the tutorial) and the windows service wouldn't start that way. service starts fine with [mysqld-5.1] set. (You can see in the my.cnf that I also commented out the 4.1 part). Thanks, Dave.
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