Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Installation Problems with MySQL already installed

By: Jun-Dir Liew

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The Windows installer checks if the MySQL installation you specified is correct by checking for the existence of mysqld-nt.exe. The only problem I can see with copying msqld.exe as mysqld-nt.exe is when you try to start MySQL via EasyPHP's interface - however you should only need to keep a copy of mysqld-nt.exe for the benefit of the LAMS installer, then you can remove it to go back to how EasyPHP installed it.

The LAMS installer also does not accept an empty MySQL root password.

It doesn't use this password until after you have clicked 'Install', so thats when you get the message saying 'please set the correct password'. At this point make sure that your MySQL is running, as LAMS will use it to create its database. You should probably keep a copy of the mysqld.exe instead of renaming it, since this is what EasyPHP uses to run MySQL.

Posted by Jun-Dir Liew