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MySql not working

PostPosted: 04. May 2010 11:17
by jennym
Hi

I loaded xampp yesterday - really struggling because the first download (from SF website default mirror) said it had corrupt files on install. So I deleted the first download and downloaded another version from another mirror.

The problem I am having is that MySql on the control panel says: 'ERROR MySql not started [-1 ]

I can access http://localhost/xampp/ which says: Welcome to XAMPP for Windows Version 1.5.4a , Congratulations: You successfully installed XAMPP on this system!

Clicking on xampp/mysql/mysql_installservice comes up with: Save windows my.ini as my.ini.old (not sure about doing this?)

Please, can anyone advise? :)

Re: MySql not working

PostPosted: 04. May 2010 11:22
by jennym
Further infor - looking in windows file, there is a my.ini.old already there. There is also a my.ini file, which says:

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# Example MySQL config file for small systems.
#
# This is for a system with little memory (<= 64M) where MySQL is only used
# from time to time and it's important that the mysqld daemon
# doesn't use much resources.
#
# You can copy this file to
# C:/Program Files (x86)/xampp/mysql/bin/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this
# installation this directory is C:/Program Files (x86)/xampp/mysql/data) or
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.
#
# In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.
# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program
# with the "--help" option.

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client]
# password       = your_password
port            = 3306
socket          = mysql

# Here follows entries for some specific programs

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
basedir="C:/Program Files (x86)/xampp/mysql"
tmpdir="C:/Program Files (x86)/xampp/tmp"
datadir="C:/Program Files (x86)/xampp/mysql/data"

port            = 3306
socket          = mysql

old-passwords
character-set-server = latin1
collation-server = latin1_general_ci

skip-locking
key_buffer = 16K
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_cache = 4
sort_buffer_size = 64K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 256K
net_buffer_length = 2K
thread_stack = 64K

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,
# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.
# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.
# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows
# (using the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!
#
#skip-networking
server-id   = 1

# Uncomment the following if you want to log updates
#log-bin=C:/Program Files (x86)/xampp/mysql/data/mysql-bin

# Uncomment the following if you are NOT using BDB tables
skip-bdb

skip-innodb
# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#innodb_data_home_dir = C:/Program Files (x86)/xampp/mysql/data/
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = C:/Program Files (x86)/xampp/mysql/data/
#innodb_log_arch_dir = C:/Program Files (x86)/xampp/mysql/data/
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
#set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=16M
#set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
#set-variable = innodb_log_file_size=5M
#set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=8M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
#set-variable = innodb_lock_wait_timeout=50

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet=16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 8M
sort_buffer_size = 8M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 8M
sort_buffer_size = 8M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout

[WinMySQLadmin]
Server="C:/Program Files (x86)/xampp/mysql/bin/mysqld.exe"
#user=root
#password=


Wondering if this could be the problem?

Re: MySql not working

PostPosted: 04. May 2010 11:54
by Altrea
jennym wrote:Welcome to XAMPP for Windows Version 1.5.4a


This is a very old version of xampp. The latest version of xampp for Vindows is XAMPP 1.7.3
official downloadlinks

Re: MySql not working

PostPosted: 04. May 2010 13:58
by jennym
Altrea - you are a star! Thank you, all now works as it should.

Another lesson I've learnt (it should be obvious really :oops: ) - make sure the latest version is downloaded!

Re: MySql not working

PostPosted: 04. May 2010 14:11
by Altrea
No problem.
Glad i can help you :D