Long story short, I ended up deleting the root user from PHPMyAdmin in EasyPHP. After some researching, I used skip-grant-tables to regain database access. Now, however, I
If your machine has IPv6 enabled, "localhost" will resolve to ::1
, rather than 127.0.0.1
. This can cause issues.
Try connecting to "127.0.0.1" rather than "localhost". That ought to force mysql to authenticate by IPv4 address, so make sure 127.0.0.1 is in there.
Alternatively, if you have admin access, you can map localhost back to 127.0.0.1 in c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
.