I am trying to create a server on my laptop. I have a windows 7 OS. I have downloaded Apache HTTP Server, MySQL Server and PHP. My Apache seems to be working well at one point ie. when I use the http://localhost "It Works" does show in the browser. When I attempt to sign on the MySQL Server with my password the command prompt shuts off so quick I can't even read what the window says. The MySQL server seems to be running in the task manager under mysqld.exe. I am not sure what else to do.

End goal: have mysql running and adn communicating with php on apache.

Thanks

Hi there! Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org.

Maybe this will seem a daft question, but: are you trying to accomplish this stuff, on the Windows 7 OS? It looks that way.
While there may be some folks around here who can help you, I would not hold my breath waiting for them - this is a Linux forum, not Windows.

If there's Linux involved in this situation somewhere, please explain where and how.

Thanks, and kind regards.

yes it is windows...

Whilst I no longer use Windows at all and, as has been said, this is a linux forum, I used to use Windows and when I did I found XAMPP to be a very easy way to get Apache, Mysql, PHP and other associated components working. There is a version available for Windows 7. There's information here and here about this useful product.

on windows i have only used the MinGW bash to talk to it ( way way better than the thing MS calls a terminal )

have you read the documentation ?
on the Apache web site ?
the Mysql site?
the phpMyAdmin web site ?

as to getting the mysql and httpd service going on Win7 ?????? ask MS ( i only did it on XP)

Hi -

Based on what you've said, I would strongly urge you to follow bgeddy's advice:

1. UNINSTALL Apache, PHP and MySQL

2. Reboot Windows

3. Install XAMPP (which includes Apache, PHP and MySQL together, in one easy-to-manage package)

IMHO...

At the top of every thread in this "department" it's written:

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I can't help the OP since I do not run Windows.

Thank you very much. I am quite aware of what it reads in the sticky. And had this thread arrived in the "General" forum I would not have written anything.

Since the thread is in the /Programming forum, my post was a (perhaps poor) attempt at determining whether there was a 'programming' component to the question (in which case the thread may stay right here, but there does not appear to be such a component) or if it is neither 'programming' nor 'Linux', in which case it will move to "General", since it is purely a Windows question..
Neither do I. That makes us equally helpful here.

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Help with code to access the database with PHP sounds like it might belong in this forum. Setting up the client/server communication and client authentication I'd say are outside the scope of this forum and as it's on windows which may very well be different to how the linux version works, it's probably outside the scope of LQ completely. Probably better to ask on a site frequented by DBAs (or dare I say: even RTFM! )

One thing to watch out for is that mysql doesn't do native platform authentication, it has it's own internal set of users and passwords. Perhaps this is what is causing the problem.
You could try something like "mysql --user=root" and see what happens, but mysql on Windows may very well be different to linux.

as i recal the MS Windows mysql install uses as the install default
user=user
password = password

you then need to CHANGE THEM
it is one of the very very first things in the documentation