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

This can also be caused if you forget (as I did) to move config.inc.php into its proper place after completing the setup script.

After making the config folder and doing chmod o+rw config and going to localhost/phpmyadmin/setup and following those steps, you need to go back to the command line and finish things off:

mv config/config.inc.php .         # move file to current directory
chmod o-rw config.inc.php          # remove world read and write permissions
rm -rf config                      # remove not needed directory

See full instructions at https://phpmyadmin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/setup.html