No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

Question

When I was trying to connect my phpmyadmin on my XAMPP, it gave an error:

#2002 - No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. 

Can any help me to resolve it?

Answer 1

If your operating system is Windows 7:

• go to control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
• find mysql then right-click, click start

If your operating system is Linux (Ubuntu):

• in terminal type this command: sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

Good Luck

Answer 2

Go to :

xampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

open the file config.inc.php Go to line no:31

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';

Change the line to :

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'root';

Restart your system.

Reference

Answer 3

Please try changing connect_type in your config.inc.php from 'tcp' to 'http'. This file exists in the phpMyAdmin top level directory.

Existing line looks like this:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';

New line should be looking like this:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'http';

Answer 4

Assuming you're trying to connect to http://localhost/phpmyadmin.

From XAMPP control panel start both the Apache module and the MySQL module.

Answer 5

Please go to c:\xampp\tmp folder and delete all the files. It works for me may help you.

Answer 6

Go to

C:\Users\YourUser\AppData\Local\Temp

Delete all the files.It will work.

Answer 7

Sometimes if you delete your temporary files in windows in

C:\Windows\Temp

and

C:\Users\YourUser\AppData\Local\Temp

it works.

Answer 8

Okay, so i tried all of the answers and none of them worked. If you are using different port than 3306 for MySQL you need to specify it in config.inc.php.

So since i was using port 3308, my solution was adding the following line in config.inc.php:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = 3308;

add it right bellow the user, password or extension lines.

Answer 9

Instead of localhost, type this in your address bar localhost:<PORT> (e.g. localhost:88)