Where does XAMPP put the MySQL server?

[Flying Sagittarius]

I have no idea how to connect to my MySQL server.  Everything is stored on one server.

[wildteen88]

When connecting to the MySQL server use:

localhost as the hostname

root as the username

no password is set for the root username.

 

MySQL is installed in C:\path\to\xampp\mysql

 

 

[Flying Sagittarius]

Where's the MySQL client (Command line program... the program where I input my queries directly to the server) in relation to the /xampp/ folder?

[wildteen88]

You can use phpMyadmin (which comes with XAMPP) for managing MySQL.

 

If you want to use the command line. Then just open up the Command Prompt (Start > Run > cmd)

 

Then at the command line just type mysql -u root -p and press enter. If XAMPP adds MySQL to the PATH this should work. If it doesn't then you'll have to navigate to the MySQL bin folder first, run the following command to change folders in the command line

cd C:/xampp/mysql/bin

 

Then run the mysql -u root -p command again

 

[Flying Sagittarius]

thank you everyone, help much appreciated.  I'm much more familiar with the command line than phpMyAdmin.  And the server is "localhost", right?

[wildteen88]

Yes. Use localhost as the hostname.