How to set everything up?

[Dani]

I am sorry if there are tonns of such topics here, I had only couple minutes of using the i-connection...

I wonder how to set things up. I downloaded xampp, php is working, but I have troubles with MySql... It does not work, or I do something wrong

I need myphpadmin panel (as it said in the tutorial I am reading now), but I cannot get it thru "cmd".
My xampp folder is located in Program Files, and when I try to enter the admin panel thru cmd

(c:\Program Files\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql -u (my username) -p (password)

it gives me an error, saying (in another language) that program files is not a command....

I changed my login and password thru "http://localhost/security/index.php", and in my secure window it shows that my sql secured...


I have MAC OS and Windows XP SP3, which one is better to use for programming?
May be I need to get rid of xampp and try something different?
May be I need to get another type of MySql panel or something?

I really have nowhere to ask and I am really buffled, and unsure what to do, PLEASE help me)

 

[Edge]

xammp

xampp worked straight off the bat for me on windows xp - not sure why you are trying to access phpmyadmin or mysql through command line. Why don't you just go to http://localhost/xampp/ and access it from there?
Also have you got IIS running as both Apache and IIS will want to use port 80 - you'll have to set one of them to use port 8080.

 

[DHDdirect]

Check the mysql error log file for further information.

 

[Dani]

Why don't you just go to http://localhost/xampp/ and access it from there?

Thank you a lot, now it works!

Also have you got IIS running as both Apache and IIS will want to use port 80 - you'll have to set one of them to use port 8080.

Read about it a lot, because I had problem with port 80, but neither skype. nor IIS was the problem. (I don't use IIS and not sure what is it yet). I restalled another version of xampp and it started working fine.

The first version tried to download itself into C:\xampp....
The new one installed into C:\Program Files\xampp...

Thank you very much again!