Hi everybody, I am completely noob on servers install and management, but I have 30 years of experience on computers, also of programming experience.
I now need to learn PHP and MySQL so I decided I'll run the server on my machine for ease of use.
I tried more and more times, installing and uninstalling everything and changing config files.
First of all I tell you that the XAMPP installation for Win does NOT change the drive letter. I installed in D: and all config files of MySQL were still pointing to C:.
Anyway, I tried to install in D:, then in C: and now in D: again.
I tried to delete all config files before reinstalling in C: (because when I uninstalled some old apache config file was probably not removed and was still pointing to D:...).
I opened all the doors manually on the Windows Firewall.
I must say, though, that unluckily the antivirus software here in the office is McAfee and I read in the FAQ that there can be problems with this. Note that I disabled real time scanning during XAMPP installation, though.
Apache server is running fine.
FileZilla is running fine.
I only have this damn problem with the MySQL server.
Here's what happens:
I start the service (it is installed as a service, and I tried both modes), XAMPP says "MySql service started" and after 2 or 3 seconds it crashes and window to send data to Microsoft pops up.
If I click Admin in the XAMPP panel before the service starts, the MySQL panel pops up, then when I click "Don't send" on the MS window it closes, BUT I still have the semaphore icon in the tray.
And the MySQL panel is working perfectly!
This is everything I can say, apart the fact that I am on WinXP with SP3 installed, the machine is pretty new (November) and the system is quite clean, there are only application for graphics, especially Adobe stuff.
Thank you fro help!
HEEEELLPP!!