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

I've been through basically all of stackoverflow for this error and nothing resolved my issue. I was able to log into mysql directly from the linux command line fine, but with the same user and password couldn't log into phpmyadmin.

So I beat my head against the wall for half the day until I realized it wasn't even reading the config.inc.php under /etc/phpmyadmin (the only place it was located btw based on "find / -iname config.inc.php". So I changed the host in /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/libraries/config.default.php and it finally worked.

I know there's probably another issue with why it isn't reading the config from the /etc/phpmyadmin folder but I can't be bothered with that for now :P

tldr; if your settings don't seem to be applying at all try making the changes within /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/libraries/config.default.php