[beergoggles]

I am certainly a novice at the whole notion of building my own dynamic content in web sites and applications. I’ve managed developers and been around the efforts for 6 years. I’m HTML proficient to the latest tricks, just weak on the application processing and database side...

My goal here is to get my local environment supporting vBulliten so I can tweak and integrate it into two web sites I’m working on. – So, I’ve successfully installed PHP and apache on my local machine. MySQL is also installed and I didn’t follow the exact installation directions to install in c:\mysql\. Instead I installed in my d:\program files\mysql\ by habit for all applications. I’ve read a number of web site articles and documents on installation and starting MySQL. I can’t get it started.

I access my services and click the “Start” link or button when in the MySQL properties interface, and get the Service Control bar attempting to start the Service and then a pop-up dialog box saying, “Could no start the MySQL service on Local Computer Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly.” The Path to executable is: D:/Program Files/mysql/bin/mysqld-nt.exe. The startup type is: Automatic

If I try it from a command line, I get: "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' <10061>"

In addition, I’m running XP on a intel machine.

Any assistance would be so very helpful!

[beergoggles]

This suggestion from another forum:

cd mysql
cd bin
mysqld-nt --standalone
cd mysql

All systems go.