Installing Drupal

Hello, not sure if this is the right place for database support, but I can't figure my problem out! I've done a lot of searching and nothing exactly fits my problem.

I'm using "windoze XP home edition" with all firewalls turned off. I can connect to my apache server, but not mysql. If I run "netstat -a" from the command line, I can see that mysql is listening on port 3306. If I "telnet localhost 3306" the connection is refused. I've tried using "127.0.0.1" as well with no success. What's going on? Why can't I connect to the server running on the same machine?

I've uninstalled and reinstalled XAMPP many times, to different directories, each with the same problem. I then downloaded and installed MySQL 4.1 directly from the mysql.com site, and still the same problem. I've tinkered with the .cnf and .ini files following leads from other searches and still the same problem. I have a feeling that a Windows Update is blocking my connection somehow, but I'm only guessing. I am using a legit version of windows.

Using Advanced Unistaller, I've disabled all programs I don't trust from starting up. I've repaired my registry and took many steps that shouldn't be related to this problem.

It's all worked perfectly before, but the last two weeks nothing. I'm completely lost! All my development for drupal has stopped and I have a lot of free time for it at my job.

Any clues? Next step is to backup my files and use the recovery CD's to get me back to pre-SP1. That's a lot of work and time! Please help!

why i have to get this error in installing
i really would like to work with drupal but this error don't let me to install
Unable to connect to database server
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This either means that the username and password information in your settings.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the MySQL database server. This could mean your hosting provider's database server is down.

The MySQL error was: .

Hi there.

I'm getting a "Access denied for user: 'drupal@localhost error" when I try and setup the first account. I have changed the config file so I'm not sure where it is getting the drupal@local from.

My SQL didn't allow me to setup a new database so I have loaded the fields into my current database, which worked fine. The config file points at the correct database with passwords etc, so that should be OK too.

Please could someone tell me where I find the code to fix where ever this erronous query is coming from.

Thanks

Hi all,

i installed the GMap repository module on a brand new Drupal 4.7b4 install placed on the subdirectory 'drupal' of my root site (www.kiteatlas.com/drupal), still i can't manage to make the map work..

Hi all,

First of all i'm new to Drupal but I've been setting up nice website without a lot of hassle. Nice,..
Then again I've activated the forums module and created some forums.
The problem is these forums can be read by anonymous users and I don't want that. Users need to be authenticated in order to READ posts.

Hi Im a NB here. just install Drupal and currently the page created will be display in frontpage with the latest date. Is there anyway for user to arrange the page display according to their page content rather than the auto date? I mean if you create a Page, the newest will go to the top of frontpage. But what i want to have a static page on top and any new one below.
thanks