Relocating a mySQL database

I'm preparing a db project using mySQL. It's running on my Win98 machine with Apache 3.something. I've written a
fairly simple HTML form that calls a CGI script in Perl to search the db. Everything works just fine BUT:

mySQL insists I keep the database in its directory (c:/mySQL/data/, as it's set up here). I want to move the data elsewhere (let's say to c:/project/). There seems to be no way to do this - putting a full path name in the CONNECT statement doesn't work. Any ideas?

(I want to solve this so that when I upload the project to a 'real' Web server, I can keep the db where I can
get at it easily.)

Peter.

Have a look here: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Command-line_options.html

Also, when moving your data from one site to another, I recommend a tool like mysqldump to dump the data. You can use the mysql command line tool on the other end to import the data again.

Another handy way to do this is with phpMyAdmin

Best of luck.