XAMPP MySQL not working

[scrubbicus]

Hey everyone.

 

So I installed XAMPP a few weeks ago and it was working all good and find until a few days ago when MySQL stopped working and phpMyAdmin was giving me a lot of errors everytime my computer booted up. I uninstalled XAMPP completely and reinstalled it and it's still not working. I set my firewall to allow everything and it's still not working, any suggestions? This week I started messing around with MySQL for the first time as well as changed the password to it before that.

[MadTechie]

I think the best advice i can give is to suggest you post in the correct section!

 

when you say stopped working.. what do you mean.. the service fails to load?, you can loggin? any errors ?

 

try resetting your MySQL password..

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/23/reset-the-root-password-of-mysql-server/

[scrubbicus]

Oh sorry about the section. Apache isn't working now that I reinstalled it.

 

It just won't load at all.

[MadTechie]

did you uninstall and remove/backup the files/folders?

i use WAMP server 2 on my dev PC so this is mainly guess work but try this

 

#1

quit xamp (from the system try)

 

#2

run (stop services)

\xampp\xampp_stop.exe

\xampp\apache_stop.bat

\xampp\mysql_stop.bat

\xampp\filezilla_stop.bat

 

#3

run (remove services)

\xampp\apache\apache_uninstallservice.bat

\xampp\mysql\mysql_uninstallservice.bat

\xampp\filezilla_setup.bat (will probably prompt you)

 

#4

Remove files (well for this we're rename)

rename \xampp to \xampp.old

 

if you get a error here try rebooting then try renaming again

 

once thats done..

try a reinstall

 

Hope that helps

 

 

Heres some useful info

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#524

[RichardRotterdam]

Just another thing to add. If you do a clean installation of xampp on windows. Get an earlier version then 1.7.0 if thats the last version. The 1.7.0 is pretty buggy and doesn't work with pdo

[markuspxpx]

Just another thing to add. If you do a clean installation of xampp on windows. Get an earlier version then 1.7.0 if thats the last version. The 1.7.0 is pretty buggy and doesn't work with pdo

 

Awesome dude ! Here is my solution based in urs... I'm Windows Vista 64 Ultimate user, and yes I love Vista and I was with problems in MySQL , the php files was working as well but they didn't get took anything from database, so I found a version 1.6.8 and it's working like a hell !

 

Thank you a lot Dj Kat

[Guest]

I wanted to add something to this a few years later. I just had the same problems with my Xampp and I googled for answers and this was the first link I saw.

 

I unistalled and  reinstalled my Xammp but, I couldn't get it to work again until I typed in localhost/ with the backslash included. Typing in localhost/ activated the Xampp again. You should be able to use it again afterr typing that. You might be able to type in localhost/ in your browser to bring up the xampp even if you didn't uninstalled and reinstalled it.

 

It could be a time saver for anybody to try and get the xammp up and working first and then get the phpmyadmin working.

 

I hope this helps.