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

Question

I installed xampp,but when I tried to run it I got an error as thus:

Error

MySQL said: Documentation

1045 - Access denied for user \'root\'@\'localhost

Answer 1

1. Open the config.inc.php file in the WAMP phpmyadmin directory

2. Change the line ['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '' to

   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'your_mysql_root_password';

3. Clear browser cookies

4. Then Restart all services on WAMP

This worked for me.

NB: the password to use has to be the MySQL password.....

Answer 2

If you are using XAMPP rather than WAMP, the path you go to is:

C:\xampp\phpMyAdmin\config.inc.php

Answer 3

On OSX I had same difficult, but a figure out a solucition

open terminal

put 'cd /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles'
put 'sudo ./xampp security'

then put your root password and answer the questions

Answer 4

My.ini from the file #password and #bind-address="127.0.0.1" are commented change the password to root and uncomment bind-address="127.0.0.1" and from the file cds.php change the

mysql_connect("localhost", "root", ""); to
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "root");

Stop the Mysql services and try login again it got logged in.

Answer 5

I had this problem with a fresh install of wamp and using only default settings without setting any passwords. I found an incorrect default setting and I solved it by the following steps:

1. Go to C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin4.1.14 (Your phpmyadmin version# may differ)
2. open the file config.inc in a text editor
3. find the line: $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';
4. change it to $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
5. save the file
6. restart all services in wamp

The problem seems to be that someone forgot to make the server and host match in the configuration files.

Answer 6

Try this:

1. Open config.inc.php file in the phpmyadmin directory
2. Find line 21: $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
3. Change it to: $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'your_password';
4. Restart XAMPP

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