What IT Is

Mission accomplished.As noted in part 2, changing the path where tables are stored causes a failure. This is probably a Vista permission thing, which I will dig into deeper when I start building stuff on my machine where backing up the files is important again (it isn’t, usually).

The only other comment on the great instructions from thesitewizard.com is in the Modifying Your PHP Configuration to Allow Your PHP Scripts to Use MySQL section, he leaves out the tip found in many PHP fourms of placing the php.ini file in the windows directory. For some reason I remebered doing this from my installation a year ago and didn’t spend hours trying to find the fix I failed to blog or bookmark at that time.

So, as usual, I had to select options other than the defaults, even though legitimate options. Deviating from one of the below prevented getting the basics working:

6. The next screen in the dialog box lets you select the drive where your database is to be stored. If you have no particular preference, leave it at the default and click “Next” (I have always used a custom path to simplify my backups).

I love MySQL. I hate Vista, and regret having chosen it for my last computer build at a time when I knew I would be stuck with my choice due to personal bandwidth.

I’m trying the instructions found at http://www.thesitewizard.com/php/install-mysql-windows-vista.shtml and will update this post when complete…or totally stumped, whichever comes first.