john@jprecious.freeserve.co.uk (jonrp) wrote in message news:<c3451fb8.0402170543.3186dcfd@posting.google. com>...
> I've sucessfully installed Apache with 1.3.29-win32-x86-no_src.
> I've installed mySQL(3.23.58) but, to quote my textbook:
>
> "Before the mySQL database server can be started the configuration
> file C:\MySQL\my-example.cnf must be copied to the root directory at
> C:\ and renamed to mycnf.cnf. The options set in this file are read by
> MySQL whenever it is started."
>
> The trouble is there ain't no my-example.cnf file....
> Please help me somebody!

You dont really need to be concerned with the .cnf file.
Once you installed mysql binary simply go to the c:\mysql\bin and run
winmysqladmin.exe.

That will start the mysql server and you can setup a user id and password for it.

I take it you are running mysql on windows platform.

Hope this help.

Regards,
Dariush
www.realsoftstudio.com
Sqlporter for Mysql database migration toolkit.