Question

I’m trying to set up my local development environment, to which i’m using the ever so easy to install “WAMP” package.

Now i install wamp, run it and start all services, i try connecting to the MySQL server, but i get an error:

SQL Error (2003): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10060)

It doesn’t matter if i try it via a SQL client or PHP, and i’ve tried re-installing a few times.

So i decided to take a look at the mysql.log file after a startup, and this is what i get:

111024 22:57:41 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
111024 22:57:41 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
111024 22:57:41 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
111024 22:57:41 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
111024 22:57:41 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
111024 22:57:41 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
111024 22:57:41 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
111024 22:57:41  InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
111024 22:57:42 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 1595675
111024 22:57:42 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
111024 22:57:42 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.16-log'  socket: ''  port: 3306  MySQL Community Server (GPL)

The second to last line reading “wampmysqld ready for connections.” indicates it should work, which confuses me…

I have close to no idea what’s wrong, so i hope you guys have any suggestions for what i can try to do in order to get this up and running.

Answer 1

Now i have been troubled with this for quite some time, but i believe I’ve found a solution now.

I’ve done everything from deleting everything i could find containing “mysql” from files to the registry database, even so nothing helped.

I even ended up using a Virtual Machine as a temporary solution, but as it changed IP i had to edit the my.cnf, which is where i realized my my.ini missed the bind-address value.

The solution turned out to be annoyingly simple, even though i’m not sure exactly what did it.

Anyway, i ended up editing some things in the my.ini, i edited these rows:

[client]
socket      = /tmp/mysql.sock

[wampmysqld]
socket      = /tmp/mysql.sock
log-bin=mysql-bin

I commented out the log-bin line, edited the socket lines and added bind-address so it looked like this:

[client]
socket      = C:/wamp/mysql.sock

[wampmysqld]
socket      = C:/wamp/mysql.sock
bind-address = 127.0.0.1

#log-bin=mysql-bin

As i said, not sure what did it, but if you have the same problems for some reason, some of this might work for you.