Martin Fleming » MySQL http://martin-fleming.co.uk Sharing my experiences and knowledge Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:08:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SOLVED: Installing MySQL Windows 7 (not responding) http://martin-fleming.co.uk/2010/03/solved-installing-mysql-windows-7-not-responding/ http://martin-fleming.co.uk/2010/03/solved-installing-mysql-windows-7-not-responding/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:47:10 +0000 Marty (admin) http://martin-fleming.co.uk/?p=115 Recently I had to install a WAMP server on my laptop running Windows 7.  The downside to Windows, in my opinion, is there is no package management tools such as apt-get or yum, therefore all software has to be installed and maintained manually.

Installing MySQL seemed to be a headache.  The installer would stop responding at Instance Configuration Wizard, however the solution to this problem is easy.

MySQL Instance Configuraion Wizard

You need to punch a hole in Windows firewall for MySQL before you install.  Open up TCP ports 3306 for both incoming and outgoing and the installation will complete fully.

If you get stuck with a problem that I did where it installed MySQL without a root password even though you selected one, run:

$ mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD

Replacing NEWPASSWORD with your password.

If the command above does not work for you, you will need to use a full path to the command which may be in C:\Program Files\MySQL or C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL or another location depending on where you installed it.

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