Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete once, and see if you see any running programs such as
"Mysqld-opt" or something to that effect.
If not, I don't think MySQL is running on your system.
Go back into your mysql directory and execute the file mysqld.exe
I believe that should start MySQL.
Then try connecting again.
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> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I went to mysql bin directory and typed mysql.exe, I get an error
> message
> "Error 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)"
>
> What's the problem? Please advise.
>
> I am running Win98SE with Apache.
>
>
>
> Plutarck wrote:
> >
> > Try going into your mysql bin directory, then type:
> >
> > mysql.exe
> >
> > Then try using connect, or just doing your query.
> >
> > If that doesn't work, ensure MySQL is running. If that doesn't
work...then
> > there is some other problem.
> >
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> > Plutarck
> > Should be working on something...
> > ...but forgot what it was.
> >
> > "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > I was trying to create a database for PHP using MySQL with the command
> > > c:\mysql\bin>mysqladmin create database01 and I received the following
> > > error message
> > > "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)
> > > Check that mysql is running on localhost and that the port is 3306.
> > > You can check this by doing 'telnet localhost 3306'"
> > >
> > > The Apache server is running. What should I do now?
> > >
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