Re: MAJOR ISSUE - please reply

[bill leebong]

Not an expert here but, change the port in mysql back to the default, then install phpmyadmin, it has to find mysql to create its links and its db,etc, and then change the MYSQL port and test phpmyadmin. Not sure about changing the port for phpmyadmin. Don't really know how that works but on my system (Using a LAMP stack 2.x, 5.7x, 7x respectively for the AMP) I opened the config files one at a time and searched for "port". In my config.inc.php file I found this:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = $dbport;

Looking at the script it looks like a reference to a global setting that is called by the config file. In other words, I think that you don't have to touch it. Again, I'm no expert.