I’ve been working on a side project which I hope will bring in some extra money. It’s a data driven website, meaning that it is a site that does more than just sit there and look pretty. It’s a site that is interactive, where what you do brings forth different information. So sites like Google, Amazon, your bank, all of them take input from you and then return something – information from Google, books and products from Amazon, and your bank balance from your bank.
I have a development environment set up on my local computer with a web server that will run the PHP language (most of the interactive websites on the Internet use PHP). To be able to store and use information, say all the books Amazon has for sale and the categories they show up in, I use a database. Specifically, a MySQL database. MySQL runs behind a lot of the interactive websites.
When I start my work day I have to start MySQL as a service on my computer. Services run in the background of your computer so while your surfing the web, or playing games, services are running a process in the background that help your computer keep running.
The problem comes from starting the MySQL service. It will initially start but then it crashes. It goes from running to not doing anything in a matter of seconds. I’ve gone through the error logs but have yet to figure out what is causing the problem.
I’ve deleted and completely reinstalled my development environment twice before, both times because MySQL kept crashing.
I have found and followed some fairly complicated tutorials on restoring a non-functioning MySQL database in hopes of resurrecting it with no success.
My next step is to hit some bulletin boards dedicated to the development environment I use to see if anyone else has encountered this (I’m sure someone has) and how to resolve this issue so I can get going with my development work.
It’s very difficult to develop a database-driven website without a database. Here’s hoping I can get the darn thing working again.
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