Installing Tracks but already have MySQL

If you already have MySQL installed and running as a service, what is the proper way to install Tracks? I tried, not realizing that the login was going to try to access my existing MySQL service, and it failed to connect to the database, of course. I am uninstalling and will try to put my database credentials into the installer.

What is the proper approach for this situation?

A couple of random observations:

The Tracks forum gives an HTTP 500 error.
The Tracks installer is AMAZINGLY slow. I’ve never seen an install take so long before. Is that normal?

Thanks!

This was really bizarre. The first time I installed, it did not ask me for a port for MySQL. And it did not detect that port 3306 was already taken. But this time, after uninstalling, the installer did ask for a port. I tried 3306, thinking that I could use my existing MySQL. But it told me that 3306 was taken, so I told it to use 3307. The entire installation completed successfully.

Why did the installer skip the whole MySQL port issue the first time around???

Hi greymatter,

Related to the slowness, on Windows a lot of gems are installed during the installation, and that takes a lot of time. We are investigating how we can avoid it in the future.

And about the MySQL issue, are you sure that the database server was running during the first installation? When the installer asks for the MySQL port, it is not because it can use the existing one (as you have surely realized by now), but to not interfere with it.

Cheers