phpMyAdmin is throwing a #2002 cannot log in to the mysql server phpmyadmin

Question

I have installed MySQL server enterprise 5.1 on my local machine and now I want to install phpMyAdmin, but it does not work.

I have unrared phpMyAdmin to my server r

Answer 1

It is because your system has two installations of "mysql" packages. One installation was made through xampp/lampp and another installation was made through mysql-debain package. To solve the problem, just go to "synaptic manager" and remove mysql, and then you will be able to access mysql from xampp server.

Note : removing mysql from synaptic manager doesn't affect mysql which was installed through xampp/lampp server. So don't worry!

Answer 2

I had an issue with the path of the MySQL service in the Windows 7 registry which was not changed with the new installed XAMPP or newer easyPHP version.

So if anybody has the same problem (#2002 error, phpMyAdmin cannot be started) you can search into the win regedit for 'my.ini' and exchange the path to the new package.

For example I exchanged on a few places the older path:

C:\EASYPH~1.1VC\binaries\mysql\bin\eds-mysqld.exe --defaults-file=C:\EASYPH~1.1VC\binaries\mysql\my.ini MySQL

with the newer one:

c:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=c:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini mysql

It is strange that nobody described this issue before on the web!

Answer 3

It happened with me when I changed the instance type of my AWS server.

#2002 Cannot log in to the MySQL server can also occur when the mysqld service is not started.

So first of all you need to execute :

$ sudo service mysqld restart

This will give you :

$ sudo service mysqld restart
Stopping mysqld:                                           [  OK  ]
Starting mysqld:                                           [  OK  ]

After that the error will not come.

P.S. On EC2 instances, one should also change the host from localhost to 127.0.0.1 as mentioned in the top answer.