I followed the warning that pops up when you use phpMyAdmin without creating a password for the root user, by creating a password for the root user. And then this happened:
Error
MySQL said:#1045 – Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: NO)
phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected the connection. You should check the host, username and password in your configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL server.
Using this suggestion, I went to the config file in the phpMyAdmin folder (C:xamppphpMyAdminconfig.inc.php) and added the password on line 21 where it says
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ' ';
Now, the left hand showing my databases appears, but the main window still shows the same error message.
Searching the iNterwEbs for a solution…
Update: seconds later…
Derrr… All I needed to do was refresh the page! Everything looks OK now…
Update: minutes later…
Guess again! The individual database pages work, but the main phpMyAdmin page is still showing the error, even after refreshing.
Update: minutes later…
OK, what I’ve ultimately done is removed the password from root. Since I could get to the other database pages (why?), I could get to their Privileges tab. I did the following:
- right-clicked to copy the URL of that tab and pasted it in the URL bar in my browser
- removed the little bit that identified the database name:
db=& - went to that new URL, where I then clicked on the edit icon next to the root user and changed the password to no password
- went back to the config file and removed the password and made sure that the line
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword']was set to “true”
So, now I’m back to where I was with phpMyAdmin telling me that I should give root a password. I’m only using this locally, so it doesn’t matter, but I’d eventually like to figure out how I can do this without being locked out.