MySQL Help Please - Have phpBB and PHP working fine on IIS - Need mySQL!

[Citadel535]

Hi!

I am trying to get phpBB up on my computer. I have PHP and phpBB running fine but need to get mySQL working.

I am trying to get mySQL to run on a Windows 2000 server box with IIS. I have installed and configured PHP to run and used App Mappings to set php to work.

In the install for mySQL, it says make a my.ini in C:\WINNT which I did. However when I run mysqld --standalone (or whatever command it says to test) the command prompt just sits there.

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

[kt]

Did you install MySQL to run as a service? If you did, you may start the service from the Services console panel.

 

[Citadel535]

Hmm does mySQL run as a service I installed it and only got a location choice...

 

[kt]

Check if it's already running.. open up Services console and look for MySql. See if it's already started.. or do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and go to Task Manager and see if the process mysqld-nt.exe is running.

 

[Moonbender]

You can also control services like MySQL and Apache using the command line, net start mysql and net stop mysql.