Can't start MySQL Server with XAMPP

Question

2021-04-27 21:04:35 0 [ERROR] Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port. Got error: 10049: The requested address is invalid in this context.

2021-04-27 21:04:35 0 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306? 2021-04-27 21:04:35 0 [ERROR] Aborting

Answer 1

I think you already have another service running on port 3306 and that is why MySQl cannot use it, so two solutions:

1. Change MySQL port editing mysql.ini (Usually located where MySQL is installed, like C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\my.ini) and change the line port=3306 to use another port number

2. Identify what service is using that port and kill it:

• Use nestat to identify the process is using the port 3306

netstat -aon | findstr 3306

• The last column of the result is the process id (PID), use it to identify what application is blocking the port and with that information you can kill/uninstall the app is blocking MySQL.

 tasklist | findstr <PID> 

I hope this would be helpful.