Help with installing MySQL

[hanwall]

Hey there!

I'm new to PHP and MySQL having bought the book "Database driven website". Now I'm trying to install MySQL on my computer with Windows Essentials.

The book is telling me to get into the my.ini-file to type in "old-passwords" and then save the textfile to tell MySQL to use a PHP-compatible storage format. But when I've done this and is trying to save the file my system doesn'n let me? It says that the file can not be found??

Is there anyone else who has met this problem? Please help me!

Regards,
Hanna

[imaginethis]

The only way I've ever installed mysql on windows is with the binary installer. When you install it it allows you to set the admin password through the installer. Once its installed, you can set the password on created databases using the following

grant all options on database_name.* to username@host_name identified by 'password' with grant option

where database_name, username, hos_name and password are variable. I don't know if thats any helpful at all