Re: phpadmin and mysql

[Nick Roper]

Jason,

If you look in the directory in which you installed phpmyadmin you should find the config.inc.php file. Open the file and you will probably see something similar to the following:

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$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';

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$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';

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This assumes that you are connecting to MySQL on the same machine as phpmyadmin is installed on and that the root user is still in place with no password set (which is the default after MySQL is installed). You need to set the host, user and password to whatever are applicable on your server. You should also find a Documentation.html file in the phpmyadmin directory.

Note: You should set up a new user account to use with phpmyadmin as it is not a good idea to connect as root.

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Nick Roper