Can't start mysql
Posted: 06. January 2012 08:56
Suddenly I cannot start PHPmyadmin, trying to do it through the link on the XAMPP page. The error message I get is:
Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.
This doesn't help me much, since I don't know where these log files are or even what their names are. I see messages all over the web, many of them offering totally different solutions. I don't know what to trust, and would very much like to have suggestions from someone in the know who can explain what I need to do (hopefully in words I have some chance of understanding -- I am not a computer geek). I have already uninstalled and re-installed XAMPP. That had no effect. PHPmyAdmin link still only gives the same eror.
My main issue right now is to get my testing server running. When this started, I had the exact same problem trying to sign onto my database at Network solutions. Same error message. I CAN get to my database on their servers by going through their management page. When I saved the URL from the working datbase there, it worked again. But the testing server is still down and NEtwork Solutions won't help. I mention this only because I thought it might give a clue to someone with more insight than myself. Formerly I had saved the link to the the database on the desktop. When this started I would be asked for my password, and the error message showed up after I'd entered it. NOW I don't even have a chance to enter the password. Same error message regardless of whether I try to use the old link or get to it from the PHPmyAdmin link of the XAMPP page.
I've struggled and struggled with this, cannot make progress. The PHP.ini file is in C:\XAMPP\PHP, accoring to phpinfo().
XAMPP version is latest, downloaded tonight 1.7.7. Windows 7; XAMPP is in c:\XAMPPs
Help!
Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.
This doesn't help me much, since I don't know where these log files are or even what their names are. I see messages all over the web, many of them offering totally different solutions. I don't know what to trust, and would very much like to have suggestions from someone in the know who can explain what I need to do (hopefully in words I have some chance of understanding -- I am not a computer geek). I have already uninstalled and re-installed XAMPP. That had no effect. PHPmyAdmin link still only gives the same eror.
My main issue right now is to get my testing server running. When this started, I had the exact same problem trying to sign onto my database at Network solutions. Same error message. I CAN get to my database on their servers by going through their management page. When I saved the URL from the working datbase there, it worked again. But the testing server is still down and NEtwork Solutions won't help. I mention this only because I thought it might give a clue to someone with more insight than myself. Formerly I had saved the link to the the database on the desktop. When this started I would be asked for my password, and the error message showed up after I'd entered it. NOW I don't even have a chance to enter the password. Same error message regardless of whether I try to use the old link or get to it from the PHPmyAdmin link of the XAMPP page.
I've struggled and struggled with this, cannot make progress. The PHP.ini file is in C:\XAMPP\PHP, accoring to phpinfo().
XAMPP version is latest, downloaded tonight 1.7.7. Windows 7; XAMPP is in c:\XAMPPs
Help!