Installing MySQL - Learning MySQL - page 59

Figure 2-15. Running the mysqladmin program from the Windows command prompt
Installing MySQL, Apache, PHP, and Perl on Windows Using the XAMPP
Integrated Package
To install XAMPP on your Windows system, first visit the XAMPP home page at http:
//www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html , follow the link to XAMPP for Windows, and
download the installer package. The package will have a name like xampp-
win32-1.5.3a-installer.exe .
Run the installer package once you've downloaded it; Vista may prompt you to confirm
you want to do this. Accept C:\Program Files as the installation directory and click the
Install button. XAMPP is installed to the C:\Program Files\xampp directory. Don't
change this unless you really have to. We assume this is the directory you're using.
After XAMPP is installed, you'll be prompted to install XAMPP servers as a service;
choose “yes”. Also select “yes” when asked whether you want to install Apache2 as a
service and whether you want to autostart the server. If you get a message about port
80 (the web server port) being blocked on your system, check whether you have another
running web server, such as Microsoft IIS; this server could have been installed as part
of Visual Studio .NET. You can also select “yes” to install the FileZilla FTP server as a
service, “no” to autostart the service, “no” to start the service, and “no” to uninstall
the server.
If your Windows Firewall is active, you may be told that Apache has been blocked from
accepting incoming network connections. Unless you need to allow connections from
other computers, this is a good setting to stick with, so choose to keep blocking the
connections.