[Phpmyadmin-devel] question (problems logging into phpMyAdmin)

[Paul Westmoreland]

My apologies. I'm new to all of this, so don't really know the difference
between beginner, developer, database query, "generic" or arrogant jerk to
be honest.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Michal Čihař <michal at cihar.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> please users mailing list or help forum for such generic questions,
> this mailing list is intended for developers discussions.
>
> Dne Sat, 6 Feb 2010 23:50:14 -0600
> Paul Westmoreland <paulwestmoreland1 at gmail.com> napsal(a):
>
> > I have successfully installed phpMyAdmin on my server (linux, has all the
> > requisite stuff needed to run everything) but i get this error:
> >
> > #1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
> >
> > (also this one: Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP
> > configuration.)
>
> You need to add mcrypt extension to PHP configuration, dynamic loading
> is usually disabled in PHP.
>
> > i tried the documented suggestion:
> >
> > $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']          = 'root';
> >
> > $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']      = 'cbb74bc'; // use here your
> password
> > $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'config'
> >
> > by putting in my own password with root as the login and got same error.
> > also tried $cfg['Servers'][$i]['nopassword'] and generating a script
> using
> > phpMyAdmin/setup/ which also didn't allow login.
>
> Fist consider rather using cookie authentication which provides better
> security.
>
> Besides that, are you sure you are entering correct password?
> phpMyAdmin does nothing more than connecting to the MySQL server and
> passing login information to it.
>
> > i created a "config" folder under phpMyAdmin and dropped the
> config.inc.php
> > into that, and also dropped it into /setup/frames/ with the various
> attempts
> > and that didn't work either
>
> Please read documentation how to use setup script.
>
> --
>        Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
>
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