[sudhakararaog]

i have installed wamp on my computer and when i access phpmyadmin i get the following error

#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

i already have xampp installed on my computer, i want to learn smarty templates so i am using wamp for the sake of learning smarty, i do not want to install smarty on xampp as it is already configured with other settings so i would like to use wamp

i am using windows xp service pack 2

i have chaned the port to 81 in the httpd.conf configuration file of wamp and changed server name to localhost:81 so i access wamp as
http://localhost:81 this works fine, from this page when i click on phpmyadmin link i get the error

#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

i have followed the steps from the following links

http://www.wampserver.com/phorum/read.php?2,30300
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=58057


i have tried stopping all services and restarted wamp service however i am not able to access phpmyadmin but i am able to access wamp as
http://localhost:81 and any files i create in the wamp/www folder

please advice.

thanks

[midders]

How did you install wamp? I've been using the XAMPP distribution for years with no problems. It works "straight out of the box" and includes phpMyAdmin etc.

Slainte

midders

[sudhakararaog]

i downloaded the wamp set up file from wamp website and installed wamp in c:\wamp and xampp was installed in c:\xampp

[olddirtret]

Read A matter of security (A MUST READ!) in the readme_en.txt file in the xampp folder for the correct way to set a password for the root user in MySQL and phpMyAdmin.

The easiest way is to use the security console, which you can access at http://localhost/security/.
This "console" creates a password for the MySQL user "root" and is adjusting the phpMyAdmin configuration.