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

For those who get this error when working with WAMP/XAMP on a windows machine.

This may help you.

Your solution is to

• net stop mysql
• Erase binary logs (and the binary log index file)
• IF you do not know where they are, locate my.ini on your PC
• Open my.ini in Notepad look for the option log-bin or log_bin
• Look for the option datadir
• If log-bin only has a filename, look inside the folder specified by datadir
• If log-bin includes a path and a filename, look inside the folder specified by log-bin
• Open the desired folder in Windows Explorer
• Remove the binary logs There should be a file whose file extension is .index. Delete this as well net start mysql

Please DO NOT ERASE ib_logfile0 or ib_logfile1 when you have binary log issues.

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