Phpmyadmin Password Does Not Work

I have been designing my site on my desktop using XAMPP. Everything was ok until I thought I needed a pasword for my database which did not have a password. From the day I applied the password I have been unable to access my phpMyAdmin
I type http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and all I get is:



"Who said use no password?" I wonder. I have tried to clear private data in the Firefox but I ended up thinking it was not necessary because even IE which I had never used for phpMyAdmin was saying the same thing.
Of cause I could start afress and get things back the way they used to be but I won't have learnt anything. Help me so that I'll know what makes these things tick

usually , the default password is empty. Have you changed the password in mysql?
I mean if change your root password with command like SET PASSWORD=... etc..
then you need to change some file in phpmyadmin. Ok. Follow these steps.

1. First goto this location http://localhost/phpmyadmin/scripts
Make sure, you are running the XAMPP server.

2. There you will see setup.php file. Click on it.
You will see a page phpMyAdmin setup.

(or you can directly go to setup page with the link http://localhost/phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php )

3. Leave it there, and go to phpmyadmin folder in your desktop.(installation directory)

4. Create a folder with name config in your phpMyAdmin directory.

5. Now goto your phpMyAdmin setup page and click on Add button located at servers.
Now you see the configuration.

6. You will see columns like Server hostname, server port etc......

Leave everthing as it is, and go to the column Password for config auth.

7. Now give your password there (the password for mysql) and click on Add button.

Now a page will open, with a message New Server added.
Many buttons are located in that page.

8. And you see a Confuration column located below in that page. It has a SAVE button.
click on it.

Now a page will appear with "File Saved" message and "Configuration saved to config/config.inc.php file.

9. OK. Now goto your config folder in phpMyAdmin directory and copy the config.inc.php file
and paste it in phpMyAdmin directory. (parent directory of config) . And delete the config directory.
(if it asks for replace, replace it)

Everything done........

Now open your phpMyAdmin page through your browser.(http://localhost/phpmyadmin/)
Hope everthing works fine.
Let me know whether it is working or not.

This post has been edited by xpress: Sep 23 2008, 12:01 PM

Thank for the reply. I tried to follow your instructions strictly but all I get now is :

I had overwriten the original config.inc.php and now I don't know how to reverse this. until I get a solution to this, I may not be able to work.

Have you set the correct password here? I mean the password you are using now to
access MySql database?

For example, can you access the database using the following command at command prompt...



Is it working?

How do I do that? I have tried typing mysql in command prompt but it does not know what the ... that is. I have tried accessing it through the XAMPP button that says Admin. First of all I was denied access and secondly I got an error that says:

The error massage keeps appearing every few seconds.

Hmmm.....I don't know about this error. But I googled your error and found that lot
of people using xampp have the same problem.


And most solutions say you have to use empty password for mysql (Not a good solution, I think) to disable
popping up the above error. To do so open my.ini file and remove your password there and save the
file. But may not be the best solution. Google your problem and find solutions.....Or....

Well, Can you switch to WAMP server(Windows Apache MySql PHP) ? I have been using it and had
no problems with WAMP. Easy to setup and configure. Download WAMP server and follow default installation.
After installing it, change your root password for MySql and Follow the procedure above to setup phpMyAdmin.......

This post has been edited by xpress: Sep 26 2008, 05:45 PM

You have been of great help pal. Thank you very much. Although I did not succeed I learnt a lot . Now I formated the drive and I'm going to start afresh.
I also did that and found the same result.
Before formatting my drive I had another problem with transferring the site from one machine to the other I kept getting errors even after importing the whole database. the error massages had full file paths of the original locations of the files on the first machine. It was still loking for things in D:\xampp\...\fileName.php even though the site was now on drive C:\
How do I go about transferring my site in a way that will make me stay away from errors?

You're welcome dude. How did you transfered your website?
(I didn't understand actually, from one machine to other means,you mean from your system to
remote server ?, or within the same system?)

And, can you show me a little piece of code(at the <a href=> tag) so that I can get a clear view.
Had you checked all these links? Where do they point to?

This post has been edited by xpress: Sep 30 2008, 04:29 AM

I can log in via phpmyadmin, but not on the command line.
Phpmyadmin Password Does Not Work

Hi. I have a reversed issue, I can log in to phpmyadmin. I even created another user acct with all priv for myself, but still can not log in via command line. Which wouldn't be a big deal, but I am migrating a few really large databases that time out in IE. In addition to that - I am going from one server to another, making it all a lot easier via command line
Help anyone

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No Privileges to create database
Phpmyadmin Password Does Not Work

hi,

I have installed aapserv and all went okay...

when I open phpmyadmin to create a database, it ask for me the username and password. After providing the username it enter to the phpmyadmin page but not able to create the database...

saying in red no privileges,

can some one tell me what is going wrong...Now I am downloading  xamppliteto see if it work withit.

 bpatel

-reply by bhagyesh