> I just continued happily deleting all the rest
That sounds scary!
Going by what you've said it looks like you're using MySQL and I think that there's something wrong with your MySQL installation. So, I'd first restart the server and see if that resolves the "mysql.exe process is in use" problem. If not, I'd check (or reinstall) MySQL and make sure that it is working correctly.
Next time (before you start happily deleting stuff) the correct approach would be to first find out what change was made to your environment (server) on Saturday morning (or Friday evening) before Moodle went down. If you can determine what change was made to the server then you will be in a much better position to work out what broke the Moodle site.
Did you make a change to the server? Did you apply patches? Did you install anything new? Were you hacked?
I also get a weird error when shuting down xampp. It says it can't find mysqld.exe and xampp can't stop
Then look through your list of services and stop (by right clicking and selecting stop) any services named mysql.
Once you have done this try reinstalling it again...
Thanks John and Luis, I have now got things back to somewhat the way they were. I am using xampp and mysql on a windows server. When I start the moodle, I get the When I try to stop the moodle using stop.exe I get
Stopping "xampp"...
Can't find process "C:\Moodle\server\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe".
"xampp" is not stopped.
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Thanks for using Moodle.
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Press any key to continue . . . database connection error.
I have checked the directories and mysqld.exe is there. So?????
I have really screwed this up and all the help is greatly appreciated since again I am just a physics teacher running the moodle for the school.
Does anyone else have access to this server that may have installed another copy of MySQL on it?
When Moodle picks up, it can also be a resource intensive application for a server.
I personally, would not want to possibly compromise either my moodle install or enterprise email by having either application bring down the other by using too many server resources.
Thank you Jon. I might have another question in a little bit aparently the Network admin took my backup and fixed the MYSQL conflict but now I try to login and there is nothing behind it the pages is just white nothing there. Would you have any ideas. I have mananged on another computer it manually install moodle on XP using Apache, MYSQL and PHP. I am kind happy and I started running the back up on it so I am feeling better about getting it running again.
So, any ideas on the login page then goes blank after logging in.
You need to download each part separately; PHP, Apache (or IIS) and MySQL (although your network admin has already done the MySQL bit!) and then install the standard Moodle package...