In regards to the XAMPP web server, are there any clues in the apache error log? I believe the default location is c:\xampp\apache\logs\error.log.
Thanks, Nathan. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sudhakar Sent: Sunday, 27 December 2009 6:10 p.m. To: NZ PHP Users Group Subject: [phpug] Re: accessing phpmyadmin Initially i had wampserver and when i accessed phpmyadmin i made a mistake while setting a password for the root user and also made a mistake by changing config.php.inc or some php file and due to this i am unable to access phpmyadmin completely i uninstalled wamp from control panel and also deleted the wamp folder from the computer, restarted the computer but the registry keys for wamp are still there so i then installed xampp, i removed port 80 on skype even then anytime i start apache server using xampp and when i access http://localhost/xampp it does not work so i uninstalled xampp and reinstalled xampp however the apache of xampp does not start for a reason i do not know so i basically do not have wamp or xampp how do i go about installing wamp or xampp so that i can use a webserver and phpmyadmin thanks On Dec 27, 8:53 am, Warren Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/Dec/2009, at 03:48 , Sudhakar wrote:> after installing wamp when i accessed phpmyadmin i got an error about > > root having no password, i have tried various steps but could not get > > to use phpmyadmin, so i uninstalled and reinstalled wamp, i deleted > > the old wamp folder when i access phpmyadmin i get the same error > > message > > <snip> > > Why don't you either add in a password for root (you should have a mysql client installed under windows) > or change the flag within the PHPMyAdmin configuration to allow empty passwords (search for $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] in your config.inc.php) > > Note that the second option may or may not be available in your version of PHPMyAdmin and it's very ill advised to run an empty root password as it means there is absolutely no authentication on the database - any one (or any program) that can access your computer can do anything it likes to MySQL. > > Disclaimer: I don't run WAMP, so my experience here is purely with running PHPMyAdmin ... > > HTH, > Wazza. -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
