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basic help - setup maybe screwed up
Posted by: Dan joyce
Date: July 06, 2005 11:28AM

I'm learning as I go and know some basics of unix and MySQL. All I need to be able to do is start using Mambo to build a site. I'm on Mac OS 10.3.9 with MySQL and PHP installed as well as the Apache webserver. Everything is up and running. I thought I knew what I was doing.

I set up a root password, or at least I think I did by using ./bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'mypassword'

So, I loaded the setup for Mambo and put in 'localhost' as the host name, 'root' as the MySQL user name, my password and put in a database name. It tells me I have the wrong user name and password. (I know, this is a Mambo issue, but the following is not, but is likely very simple).

So, I went back to the Terminal and tried to create a database:
$ ./mysqladmin -u root create arcsitedb
./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'

I don't know what this means. can I get some help?
Thanks
Dan J.

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