This is SUPER newbie of me.
 

Is there anywhere that has a STEP BY STEP guide on how to set up a private server? Having to cruise the wiki and waste hours to get nothing accomplish isn't saavy.

Guides, anybody?

I found cavedude's guide... however I'm having a problem

I've installed everything necessary.. and when I type "mysql" in a command prompt, I get this error: mysql is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.


how do I fix this?

You need to navigate to where MySQL is installed.

Probably C:\Mysql\bin (this is where the MySQL binaries -- executables -- are stored) if you went with the defaults.

click start, then run. Type cmd. The type cd c:\mysql\bin or w/e your directory is. then mysql -u root mysql.
and your set.

"can't connect to server on 'local host' ??

Double-click MySQLAdministrator in the BIN dir, set it up. The startup password (on windows) will be blank. I would suggest mysql-nt for the db server when it asks.