Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ with PHPMyAdmin

Edit your phpmyadmin config.inc.php file and if you have Password, insert that in front of Password in following code: $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘verbose’] = ‘localhost’; $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘host’] = ‘localhost’; $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘port’] = ‘3306’; $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘socket’] = ”; $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘connect_type’] = ‘tcp’; $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘extension’] = ‘mysqli’; $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘auth_type’] = ‘config’; $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘user’] = ‘**your-root-username**’; $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘password’] = ‘**root-password**’; $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘AllowNoPassword’] = true;

Edit php.ini file

The wampmanager icon, which sits in the system tray has a menu system. Use that to edit your php.ini file that is used with Apache. So its (left click ) wampmanager icon -> PHP -> php.ini It could not be simpler. EDIT/UPDATE: And now in WAMPServer 3 it has become even easier to change some … Read more

WAMP 403 Forbidden message on Windows 7

The access to your Apache server is forbidden from addresses other than 127.0.0.1 in httpd.conf (Apache’s config file) : <Directory “c:/wamp/www/”> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride all Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.1 </Directory> The same goes for your PHPMyAdmin access, the config file is phpmyadmin.conf : <Directory “c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.4.5/”> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride … Read more

WAMP port 80 busy

This problem can be also from SQL Server Reporting Services. You need to stop/disable this service from: Control Panel->System and Security->Administrative Tool->Services and stop the service named SQL Server Reporting Services (InstanceName) Open SQL Server Configuration Manager -> SQL Server Services stop/disable SQL Server Reporting Services (InstanceName)

WampServer orange icon

Before you can fix anything you need to know which service has not started, Apache or MySQL. As the TEST PORT 80 utility is saying Apache is running its probably the MySQL service that has not started. Unless you have another Apache running! So which service has not started??? If the wampmanager icon is not … Read more