I have just recently installed XAMPP on a Windows 7 laptop and I am able to turn on and off the Apache server, I cannot start MySql. The Svc checkbox is also checked and I cannot uncheck this, however I try but the control panel rechecks it seconds after unchecking the checkbox.
When I try to go to phpMyAdmin I also get the following error:
MySQL said:
#2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured)
I prevously had a separate Apache and MySql on this same machine but I have removed them because I couldn't get connected to MySql through PHP, but I could open MySql database separately. I believe XAMPP will definitely help if I can get over this hurdle.
I need to get MySql up and running asap and I cannot seem to get it to run to save my life. Help.