problems when restarting mysql

[The Clay Camel]

Behind a router I do have a lan and one of the win98 pc's works as the web server.

I do have mysql, phpmyadmin and a small phorum. All set up as in the tutorial on this site (aprelium) and all works fine until ...

The pc (the server) need to start up again (a bit unstabile power supply, small children turning of the pc, windows crashes and so on)

When starting up win 98 and winmysqladmin - only red light.

Only thing to do is to reinstall mysql, configure it, and copy my db forum into the data folder, and everything is ok again.

Also find out if I refresh / restart mysql with phpmyadmin I get the access denied messages, and that I don't have privilegium to shut down the server using winmysqladmin.

In config.inc.php i use

$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://192.168.2.73/phpMyAdmin/';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; // MySQL hostname or IP address
and user /password same as in the privilegum in configuration for mysql

Anyone who knows what I'm doing wrong ?

[TRUSTAbyss]

You should start up MySQL using mysqld-opt.exe once you get it properly
installed from the WinMySQLSAdmin.exe program then it will work. LateR!

Need some help setting up MySQL ?
My MSN: msn@trustabyss.com

[The Clay Camel]

I have tried to start with:
Start-Run-WinMySqlAdmin.exe .. only red light and no db's

I have tried to start with:
Start-Run-MySqld-opt.exe also
Start-Run-MySqld-opt.exe -h localhost -u My_user_name -p .... only red light and no db's
and variants with -pPass_Word .... but.......
also tried to have the -h -u -p parameters in the my.ini file but ...

Something I'm not doing right when I start / restart MySql I guess

[TRUSTAbyss]

Make sure your Firewall isn't blocking access to the MySQL server. LateR!