error starting a server

Im trying to run a server on windows 2000 with phpdev. I have it set up completely, and have made my router forward the port.

This is the link: http://70.187.147.218:8000/

and the permissions are set to allow people to view it, so im not sure what is wrong.

Does anyone have any ideas.

*note*its on port 8000 because cox blocks port 80

Have you got anything inside the folder? like an index page?

yes there is

i have also tried unblocking that port in every other way that i can, still to no avail. Starting to bug me.

I just went to the link and it loads in Firefox, but it's getting MySQL errors. Do you have MySQL running on the server?

This is the error I see:
Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) in c:\phpdev\www\index.php on line 70

Do you have localhost in your hosts file?



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i don't thing i have mysql running. I used to remember how to do that, but i tried the mysqld-nt.exe and nothing happens.