Hii thank you for your help...i tried and checked for everything you had mentioned but it still doesnt help. The thing is it was working fine until last evening and uniform server not starting was really the problem i had come to this forum for. My original problem was this I am trying to install activeCollab. so for the installation when i run http://localhost/apanel/phpMyAdmin i get the following error message //phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected the connection. You should check the host, username and password in config.inc.php and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL server. MySQL said: #1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) // But its weird...the url 'http://localhost/apanel/phpMyAdmin ' is working because i am getting the error message but when i run http://localhost/apanel its not working.... I really need to get activeCollab very soon i.e before next tuesday and i am all lost at the moment. Can you help me with this ??? Regards Suhrit suhrit_2000@yahoo.com