Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost'

[Saboor-Hamedi]

mycli -u username -pmypassword:
I get the following errro:
(2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' ([WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it)")

[Saboor-Hamedi]

I am using windows

[Saboor-Hamedi]

Here's the corrected version with the specified formatting retained:

I found the answer:
In case you changed the port 3306 to something else, like 3307, which was the case for me, just type on CLI:
mysql -u username -pyourpassword -P 3307. Make sure the -P 3307 is capitalized.