Hi guys, im having trouble installing MYSQL. Everything goes fine but at the end it says there was a problem creating the instance.

How do i fix this?

Thanks!

smartest call, especially if you are not especially experienced in installing MySQL and the like is to consider using a pre packaged installer such as XAMPP

Anyone?

Need this to work...

Sint XAMPP an apache variation?

Why does it give me that error?

On what platform are you installing? Windows/Linux? Also what message appeared at the end to indicate a problem?

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Here is what it says....

check the log file for MySQL, that should tell you why its failing

I cant find the log file, where is it?

mysql location of log file - Google Search

Yes i tried that before i asked here, and i still cant find it. The command prompt wont work neither.

as error messages and warnings are also written tto eh windows event log, check there aswell

so I'd suggest you search for the .err file on your file system.
you should be able to do that using file manager or the black arts of DOS
run an instance of CMD
type dir \*.err /s/w/p
..assuming your installation is on a windows box

if the server is bolluxed then the MySQL command line wont work either

it may bve you need to open the firewall port for MySQL 3306

as said before if you are unfamiliar with installing MySQL then consider using XAMPP. Yes XAMPP co0mes with plenty of baggage, its not just MySQL buit its a pretty complete and fairly painless way of installing MySQL. having said that the last time I downloaded MySQL on a windoiws machine the binary from MySQL worked fine.

I'd suggest you back out your current installation and start again with settings as speicified by MYSQL.. they will be plenty sufficient for development purposes, and leave the configuration of the server on the live system to them what knows

Found it... here is what it says:

110620 17:48:58 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
110620 17:48:58 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
110620 17:48:58 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
110620 17:48:58 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
110620 17:48:58 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 107.0M
110620 17:48:58 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: Error: log file .\ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 16777216 bytes
InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 56623104 bytes!
110620 17:48:58 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
110620 17:48:58 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
110620 17:48:58 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: INNODB
110620 17:48:58 [ERROR] Aborting

110620 17:48:58 [Note] C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysqld: Shutdown complete