JonathanS wrote:Did you try to clear your browser's catche and refresh?
If so, I'm not entirely sure...
I did so on at least one occassion, so I don't think that's the cause of the problem. I'm inclined to think it is probably related to my firewall. The FAQ says XAMPP uses a firewall, which I presume is meant to mean that it makes use of a firewall, if one installed.
On one ocassion I got: "Mysql shutdown ... mysql\bin\mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)' Check that mysql is running on localhost and that the port is 3306. You can check this by doing 'telnet localhost 3306'"
Running telnet localhost 3306 produced: "Connecting To localhost ... Could not open connection to the host, or port 3306. No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it."
Naturally, I prefer to have my firewall on, when accessing the Internet. So I turned it off, when offline and then started XAMPP then tried to get MySQL working. I'm still trying to figure out how to open ports 80 and 3306 for internal connections (as instructed in the FAQ) as I'm not yet familiar with the more complicated vagaries of my firewall. The FAQ says to configure my browser "to go around local addresses", but I don't really know how to do that either. As you've probably gathered, I'm on a bit of a steep learning curve here, so would naturally appreciate any further help that is offered.
JonathanS wrote:<edited>I feel so stupid not to ask, but by any
chance are you using
http://localhost/ or http
s://localhost/ ?</edited>
I've tried both 127.0.0.1 and localhost (as instructed by the FAQ) but not https. Which should I be using?
BTW - I won't be able to carry out any further experimentation with XAMPP until tomorrow now, but would welcome your (or anyone else's) additional comments.
Thanks again for your help.