Comments on: Installing MySQL Server 5.1 on Windows

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:12:56 +0000

correction server 5.1.35

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:00:54 +0000

I’m getting error 3306 having followed your instructions to a T.
Server version 7.
Even with the firewall turned off I get this error
MSQL is running but since the Security Settings didn’t go through I can not access from a command line because the password didn’t get installed.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:52:57 +0000

Mark A. Poncelet, tried this many times it did not work or fix my issue.

By: Mark A. Poncelet

Mark A. Poncelet — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:39:42 +0000

I just went through this process on Windows 2003, and found a few problems.

1. There was a legacy MySQL service entry in the registry that I had to clean up. I found it here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services

After that, I ran into the same problems you did. Here are my steps, in order, that allowed me to install version 5.1.34:

Run the wizard. Windows will fail to start the service.
Remove MySQL using the Configuration Wizard FIRST and then with the install package second.
Remove the MySQL program file install folder (mine was in C:\program files), but NOT the MySQL data folder (which was in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\). (This is important to get the service to start.)
Start the MySQL install process again. The service will start, but the wizard won’t be able to configure the database because it forgets to set the root password in the MySQL database.
Log into the MySQL database at the command line and set the Root password to the same one you used in the wizard. Flush tables and privileges.
Close the MySQL database and click retry on the wizard.
Get a beer, because it will work now.

By: wrw4

wrw4 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:56:57 +0000

I followed each step in detail and received an error: for “Start Service” “Could not start the service MySQL.Error: 0″ and the configuration stopped without applying the security settings? I was loading this on a Dell laptop so that I could teach myself Ruby…. Perplexed and confused.

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:47:58 +0000

argh I got the start service error as well….ahhhh

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:02:52 +0000

The same thing happened to me, I got a start service error too. What is the Deal?

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:32:07 +0000

I followed each step in detail and received an error: for “Start Service”

how might this be?

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By: Ed Proft

Ed Proft — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:52:17 +0000

Is there a way to configure the MySQL Command Line Client (launched from the Windows menu) so that it will first prompt for a username? I would like to be able to log in as a user other than “root”.

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By: Joey deVilla

Joey deVilla — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:42:14 +0000

andrej: Thanks!

Haven’t experienced that problem with MyISAM on MySQL 4, but until recently, when doing PHP/MySQL work, I’ve always been in a “build on Windows/Mac, deploy on Linux” kind of setup. Maybe this is something I should test for MySQL 5.

There’s still one very compelling use for MyISAM on some tables: full-text search. Yes, you can do LIKE searches in InnoDB, but IMHO MyISAM’s full-text search still runs circles around it.

By: andrej

andrej — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:20:13 +0000

Very nice guide. One note on storage engines, from personal experience. If there’s the slightest chance of system instability (crashes, frequent reboots), I’d avoid MyISAM like the plague — ate least on Windows.

For a while I had to support a Windows app with an embedded MySQL database on a server that had scheduled weekly reboots and the occasional crash.

It was MySQL 4, mind you, but the database service never shut down properly and corrupted tables every single week after every reboot.

So be very careful about willingly picking MyISAM for anything but a play server.