Following the Windows Tutorial

[ckirmser]

I have a question about installing and setting up NWNX. I went to Setting up NWNX2 with MySQL on Windows using the MySQL plugin
http://nwnx.org/index.php?id=tut2

and ran into a couple of problems. One, the tutorial says;

b. Browse to your respective folder and open the nwnx_mysql.txt file and complete
Server = Localhost
User = nwnuser
Password = nwnuser
DB = nwn

There is no nwnx_mysql.txt. There's a nwnx_mysql.cpp, but no .txt. So, I assumed that there was a typo in the tutorial and modified the .cpp file by adding the four lines at the top of the file, after the includes. Of course, adding ";" after each line.

The second problem I have encountered - a show stopper, so there might be more that I haven't come across yet - was with this instruction;

6. Install and Launching the MySQL database engine as a MS Windows Service
- click on start
- click on run
- Type> cmd
- Type> cd c:\\mysql\\bin
- Type> mysqladmin -u root shutdown
- Type> mysqld-max-nt –install (This command does not work for Win98 or ME)

When I try to execute the fourth bullet, Type> cd c:\\mysql\\bin, I get a path not found error; the folder mysql does not exist at the root. Now, I could search for it, but since it is not where the tutorial specifies it should be, I figure I've done something wrong at an earlier stage.

HAAAALP!!!

[Manuel]

What this means is to browse to the bin folder inside the mysql folder. So, wherever you installed mysql, browse to that folder at the command line and then go into the bin folder.

On my system the location of mysql is:
C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\bin

Performing this command worked fine:
cd C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\bin

[JeroenB]

[Liberty Valance]

also, if you typed the double backslashes, that would be problematic. there should only be one backslash at each of the places where you've shown double backslashes.

also, it should be an ini file, and not a cpp file. ini files do not require semicolons after each line either.
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