XAMPP activating mysql

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Author

Michael

Published

June 17, 2009

Here is the problem: I want to have a server (Apache, MySQL) on my local machine (for the current purpose it was a Windows machine) to do some developing, testing or a demo. Getting XAMPP at Sourceforge is straight forward, installing it works like a charm.

BUT

A problem coming back from time to time is the following: the MySQL daemon does not start.
Hmmmm

Here are some steps that helped me:

  1. make sure to deactivate any services related to MySQL and Apache
  2. shutdown XAMPP
  3. to be sure I restart the machine
  4. do not start XAMPP with the .bat file but use the MySQL and Apache batch scripts – these open a command window which you should not close as long as you use XAMPP

Through these steps everything worked fine …