How to install MySQL on Windows 7

Question

Please help me how to install MySQL on Windows 7. When I tried to install, I am getting errors as:

The security settings could not be applied to the database because the connection has failed of the following errors

ERROR NR:1045 Access denied for user 'root@'localhost(using password yes).

I tried to uninstall MySQL completely and install again, but it shows this error again and again. I have changed my firewall setting also and tried unstalling antivirus sotware too. But it also did not work.

Answer 1

Was the provided password correct?

Otherwise please check here: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,39440,417422#msg-417422

Answer 2

# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
# mysqld_safe --user=mysql --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking &
# mysql -u root mysql
mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('newpassword') where USER='root';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit

# /etc/init.d/mysql restart
# mysql -uroot -p
Enter password: <newpassword>

Answer 3

Where you installed the mysql, there should be a file called my.cnf or my.ini, in there should be the root password .e.g

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\my.ini

Answer 4

In short use XAMPP.

Many people know from their own experience that it's not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl.

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.