How to start MySQL server on windows xp

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Whenever I try to start MySQL by typing   gt  mysql -u root   I get the error     ERROR 2003 HY000   Can t connect to MySQL server on  localhost   10061    How can I solve the problem above  I just downloaded MySQL and unzipped it in the E  drive  I have not done anything else  Do I have to make a connection first  If so  how can I do that

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If the command prompt does not work in Windows, try the following:

1) Open services in Windows.

2) Then check the status for Mysql and if you found status nothing or blank then start the mysql service.

3) After then see whether the mysql is start or not .If it shows started then try to check mysql working.

It has worked for me when cmd commands were not working.

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maybe   E  mysql-5 1 39-win32 bin gt mysql -u root -p

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The MySQL server can be started manually from the command line  This can be done on any version of Windows   To start the mysqld server from the command line  you should start a console window  or    DOS window     and enter this command   shell gt   C  Program Files MySQL MySQL Server 5 0 bin mysqld  The path to mysqld may vary depending on the install location of MySQL on your system    You can stop the MySQL server by executing this command   shell gt   C  Program Files MySQL MySQL Server 5 0 bin mysqladmin  -u root shutdown     Note       If the MySQL root user account has a password  you need to invoke mysqladmin with the -p option and supply the password when prompted   This command invokes the MySQL administrative utility mysqladmin to connect to the server and tell it to shut down  The command connects as the MySQL root user  which is the default administrative account in the MySQL grant system  Note that users in the MySQL grant system are wholly independent from any login users under Windows   If mysqld doesn t start  check the error log to see whether the server wrote any messages there to indicate the cause of the problem  The error log is located in the C  Program Files MySQL MySQL Server 5 0 data directory  It is the file with a suffix of  err  You can also try to start the server as mysqld --console  in this case  you may get some useful information on the screen that may help solve the problem   The last option is to start mysqld with the --standalone and --debug options  In this case  mysqld writes a log file C  mysqld trace that should contain the reason why mysqld doesn t start  See MySQL Internals  Porting to Other Systems   Via MySQL Official Page

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Start mysql server by command prompt  C    C  Program Files MySQL MySQL Server 5 5 bin mysqld  --console  Or alternative reach up to bin then   mysqld --console  It will start your server   If you have mysql command line client available  click on it  it show enter your password     Please enter your password   Then you can access it

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there is one of the best solution do resolve this problem and it is going to work 100   as we know that server is a process so treat it like a process go to the task manager in windows and see for services in task manager in that service see for Mysql and MS80 and try to start it manually by click on it and say run then will take some time      go to your mysql workbench and click on start shutdown then try to refresh the server status in server status option  it will load up thats it

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Run your command prompt as administrator     We can start MySQL service from windows command line using the below command    net start mysql   Command to stop MySql service    net stop mysql   Disable MySql service    sc config mysql start  disabled   Command to enable MySql service to automatically start MySQL service when the system starts up     sc config mysql start  auto   Command to set the startup type to manual    sc config mysql start  manual   How to restart MySql service  There is no direct command to restart a service  You can combine stop and start commands like below    net stop mysql  amp  net start mysql

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first thing you need to do is to start the mysql for that you can use E  mysql-5 1 39-win32 bin gt net start mysql  only when there a mysql running as service  then you can execute E  mysql-5 1 39-win32 bin gt mysql -u root

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Type  C   gt   C  Program Files MySQL MySQL Server 5 1 bin mysqld  --console   to start the sql server and then test the client connection

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I was also having problem with starting MySql server but run command as mention right mark in picture   Its working fine

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The error complains about localhost rather than permissions and the current practice in MySQL is to have a bind-address specifying localhost only in a configuration file   So I don t think it s a password problem - except that you say you  unzipped  MySQL   Is that enough installation  What did you download    Was there any installation step which allowed you to define a root password   And  as NawaMan said  is the server running

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use the command  mysql -u root -p  in the bin folder path  and give the MY SQL password which you have set earlier

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Here is the ZIP file that I had downloaded  mysql-5 7 15-winx64 zip  Here are the steps to start MYSQL Server  mysql-5 7 15-winx64  for the first time on Windows    Create a new folder named  data  in MYSQL installation directory  i e  in the same location as where  bin  directory is located  For me it is  C  programs mysql-5 7 15-winx64 mysql-5 7 15-winx64  This location will vary as per the location where you have extracted the MYSQL zip file  From here I will use my MYSQL folder location as reference  Go to  C  programs mysql-5 7 15-winx64 mysql-5 7 15-winx64 bin and execute the command  mysqld --initialize-insecure or mysqld --initialize depending on whether you want the server to generate a random initial password for the  root   localhost  account  To start the DB  go to  C  programs mysql-5 7 15-winx64 mysql-5 7 15-winx64 bin and execute mysqld --console You can see the start-up logs being printed  To connect to DB  go to  C  programs mysql-5 7 15-winx64 mysql-5 7 15-winx64 bin and execute mysql -u root -p  When prompted  Enter password if it has been set or else just hit  Enter  button to connect

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mysql -u root -p   After entering this command in terminal  it will ask for password Enter the password and you are ready to go

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I was using MySQL Server 5 5 as a result I was missing the folder which majority of the answers made mention of in the bin folder  What I did instead was the following    Open Explorer and make your way to C  Program Files MySQL MySQL Server 5 5 bin or your MySQL installation directory  Run the executable application MySQLInstanceConfig and follow the images below                  This solved my issue and I was able to access the database without any errors

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Run the command prompt as admin and cd to bin directory of MySQL Generally it is  C  Program Files MySQL mysql-5 6 36-winx64 bin    Run command   mysqld --install   This command will install MySQL services and if services already installed it will prompt    Run below commands to start and stop server To start   net start mysql To stop    net stop mysql  Run mysql command   Enjoy

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I tried following steps to run mysql server 5 6 on my windows 8    Run command prompt as an administrator go mysql server 5 6 installation directory  in my case  C  Program Files  x86  MySQL MySQL Server 5 6 bin  copy that location In Command prompt run  cd C  Program Files  x86  MySQL MySQL Server 5 6 bin  run  mysql -u root

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You need to run the server first  The command you use  in the question  starts a client to connect to the server but the server is not there so there the error   Since I am not a Windows user  Linux comes equipped  so I might not be the best person to tell you how but I can point to you to a guide and another guide that show you how to get MySQL server up and running in Windows   After you get that running  you can use the command  in the question  to connect it   NOTE  You may also try http   www apachefriends org en xampp html if you plan to use MySQL for web database development   Hope this helps

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You also need to configure and start the MySQL server  This will probably help

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