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Connecting to Database
Posted by: David Blomstrom
Date: February 01, 2014 10:45PM

I just downloaded and installed MySQL Workbench and am trying to make my first database connection. I'm running MAMP on a Mac, and I see the following values on my phpMyAdmin home page:

Host localhost
Port 3306
User root
Password root

I'm trying to connect to a database with the Standard (TCP/IP) method. (I don't have a clue what Local Socket/Pipe or SSH are.) So I changed the Host to localhost. Then I changed User and Password to my database's username and password.

When I test the connection, I get the error message "Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (61)" Why does it say that when I changed the Host to "localhost"?

I can't even remember how or when I did it, but I apparently changed my password to a alphanumeric code that looks something like this: aLRsrSqXzhR17ZSX I THINK my original password was an eight-letter word, but neither than word nor the alphanumeric code work with MySQL Workbench - unless it's rejecting my connection for some other reason.

Can someone tell me how to connect to a database - or how to figure out why my connection isn't working? Thanks.

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