ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on localhost (10061)

Question

I installed MySQL on Microsoft Windows 8 Using a noinstall Zip Archive. But when i tested by executing the following commands on windows prompt, the above error showed up.<

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I tried all of the answers above (and some from other websites). In the end, my issue was that my cache wasn't configured. I found that info in my error log and fixed it by changing the line in the file:

C:\MAMP\bin\apache\conf\extra\http-ssl.conf

There I removed the double quotes from the line:

SSLSessionCache "shmcb:/some/example/path/ssl_scache(512000)"

to:

SSLSessionCache shmcb:/some/example/path/ssl_scache(512000)

and saved with Ctrl+S and closed the file.

Here's the link that helped me: https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/SSLSessionCache