I went to go upgrade my copy of XAMPP today from 0.3 to 1.7.2. Following the instructions on the XAMPP site I removed the old XAMPP from the Applications folder and put in the new one. The instruction was simple enough. The instruction was singular; not even plural. I went to boot Apache and it started fine. MySQL did not do as hot. I got this dialogue when I tried to boot up MySQL. I went through the next necessary diagnostic steps: curse, restart, retry, and curse. Read more …