I'm having the problem, used xampp and running windows 7. Apache starts with the xampp control panel, but I had to manually start the filezilla service (yep had to pull the rip-cord just like an old-fashioned lawn-mower lol) and the mysql had an error message that it couldn't be found, when I tried to do the same thing. So I guess it's just the ghost of mysql that's haunting my computer, and not the real thing? Not sure what to do. Trying to teach myself php and I need this stuff to be up and running. Any help out there is greatly appreciated thank you very much!!! PS You know it has that error message when I try to start it in the service "ERROR: MySQL service not started (-1) whatever that means, then when I try to start it in the windows services menu it says 'Error 2: file not found'
120105 19:26:20 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
120105 19:26:20 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
120105 19:26:20 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
120105 19:26:20 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
120105 19:26:20 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 16.0M
120105 19:26:20 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: The first specified data file C:\xampp\mysql\data\ibdata1 did not exist:
InnoDB: a new database to be created!
120105 19:26:20 InnoDB: Setting file C:\xampp\mysql\data\ibdata1 size to 10 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
120105 19:26:20 InnoDB: Log file C:\xampp\mysql\data\ib_logfile0 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file C:\xampp\mysql\data\ib_logfile0 size to 5 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
120105 19:26:20 InnoDB: Log file C:\xampp\mysql\data\ib_logfile1 did not exist: new to be created
InnoDB: Setting log file C:\xampp\mysql\data\ib_logfile1 size to 5 MB
InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new
InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created
InnoDB: 127 rollback segment(s) active.
InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables
InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created
120105 19:26:21 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
120105 19:26:22 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 0
120105 19:26:22 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
120105 19:26:22 [Note] mysql\bin\mysqld.exe: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.16' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)