[FlapJack23]

I have an old pentium 3 computer running ubuntu 6.10 server with a desktop. My problem is that when i try too work with mysql, an error apears and basically states it couldn't connect to the server and the user "root" isn't allowed access. Can anyone help me?

[Phoenix]

Hey, sorry for the late response I saw this topic at school and then completely forgot about it (I don't log in from school for secruity reasons). Anyway, I have just started experimenting with different Linux distros and have so far used Knoppix, CentOS and Fedora I have a few more which i'm going to try when I have time. Anyway, regarding your problem with MySQL, i'm not an expert and as I said I have only just opened the book. Anyway, I have found this site:

http://www.howtoforge.com

Has been very useful and the tutorials are very easy to understand and it has made the learning experience that much easier, some things still confuse me, but i'm getting there.

As you are using Ubuntu, which I have yet to try I can't offer much help but I can give you a link to the section on the howtoforge website dedicated to Ubuntu. Here is the link, its a tutorial on how to install PHP, MySQL, Apache and Postfix (Mail).

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_debian_lamp_server

Sorry I can't be of anymore help.

Pho~

[FlapJack23]

I actually tried something else that is working for me so far, I got xampp, which is a full lamp software package all bundled up nicely with a handy admin panel

[Phoenix]

Running on windows or Linux may I ask.

[Chantelle]

a full LAMP software bundle I would think would be for linux.

Just a guess though from what the basis of what lamp is for linux

[FlapJack23]

yeah it'sfor linux, but you can also get it for windows. doesn't lamp stand for something like Linux, Apache, Mysql, and Php?

[Melissa]

i think so I think i heard of that in college, something like it pulls them all together in a single tool set or something..

[Phoenix]

Yea sorry I wasn't thinking. Yea Lamp is linux, apache, mysql, php. That would make sense why Wamp is Windows, apache, mysql, php. Oops- thanks for the confirmation good to hear its all sorted out.