Php and mysql install errors

I’m trying to connect to mysql through php.I recently also installed Apache on my Windows 7 machine.

The error messages that I get are as follows:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: [2002] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (trying to connect via tcp://localhost:3306) in C:\Apache24\htdocs\ estdb.php on line 6

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. in C:\Apache24\htdocs\ estdb.php on line 6
Could not connect to MySQL

This is not a firewall issue because I temporarily turned it off and got the same error messages.

Thanks.

Thanks but there is no problem anymore. I just realized that I hadn’t started the MySQL service.