I use windows xp cmd line to execute my sql queries. After restarting my computer the other day, I do what I always do to login to mysql:
1.start apache using xampp control panel
2.start mysql using xampp control panel
3.navigate to mysql/bin using windows command line
4.type in "mysql -u root -p" to login
Strangely enough, I cannot login today and get this error:
ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)
Everything was working fine the other day and I haven't changed any settings in the configuration files. Did I forget to do something before logging into mysql? Thank you.