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

It happened with me when I changed the instance type of my AWS server.

#2002 Cannot log in to the MySQL server can also occur when the mysqld service is not started.

So first of all you need to execute :

$ sudo service mysqld restart

This will give you :

$ sudo service mysqld restart
Stopping mysqld:                                           [  OK  ]
Starting mysqld:                                           [  OK  ]

After that the error will not come.

P.S. On EC2 instances, one should also change the host from localhost to 127.0.0.1 as mentioned in the top answer.