Hi Luke,
thanx for your help. I now WORKS :)
Indeed there was the mysql missing table issue (btw. I noticed that it was missing also in a Solaris distro). But somehow before I posted my initial post I managed to fix this. Don't recall how, maybe just by using 'mysqlcheck'. Anyhow the tables were there and MySQL was running and accessible. Also I had to move the "transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED" to an other section.
Summary: I did not have a "MysQL is not available" problem, since all the 202 lams tables were created by your installer.
I rather think that there is a VISTA problem somewhere, also maybe in addition not rebooting after playing with other software may have interfered.
Anyhow, after reboot + a complete deinstall/reinstall of LAMS (but keeping the mysql tables) the start script still WILL NOT work.
**** What did work was the following:
Open the services panel of Vista, click on LAMSv2 and start the service did the trick.
Don't know how it can be found on an English speaking win. Something like: Configuration Panel->Administration tools->Services. I made a shortcut now ;)
I don't want to totally de-install everything to reproduce everything. Currently on my Vista, what does work is the menu "Stop Lams" script. Starting it again still gives the "MySQL doesn't appear running ... " error. But if I start the service with the services panel it will restart again.
- Daniel :)
PS: So I am happy enough, I only needed LAMS on my travel computer. But maybe you should put this on a "let's check Vista with WAMPS" todo list .....
Posted by Daniel Schneider
