# Rails Tutorial - mySQL doesn't connect in InstantRails

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**Created:** [December 2, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-tutorial-mysql-doesnt-connect-in-instantrails/121864 "2007-12-02T02:09:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-tutorial-mysql-doesnt-connect-in-instantrails/121864/1 "2007-12-02T02:09:49Z")

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For those of you familiar with InstantRails or even MySQL I guess, I’m  
working through the Agile Depot tutorial, and when I tried to create the  
DB I got the following:

C:\work\depot\>mysqladmin -u root create depot\_development  
mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failed  
error: ‘Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘localhost’ (10061)’  
Check that mysqld is running on localhost and that the port is 3306.  
You can check this by doing ‘telnet localhost 3306’

C:\work\depot\>telnet localhost 3306  
Connecting To localhost…Could not open connection to the host, on port  
3306: Connect failed

I see the mySQL folder within IR. I cannot launch mysql.exe though…  
any idea what I need to figure out here? I looked in IR under configure  
mySQL and the .ini file opened showing this:

[mysqld]  
datadir=${path}/mysql/data  
basedir=${path}/mysql  
bind-address=127.0.0.1  
; Uncomment for use on USB key  
; skip-innodb

Any idea what I need to do here?