Resetting MySQL Root Password with XAMPP on Localhost

Question

So for the past hour I\'ve been trying to figure out how to reset my \'root\' password for MySQL as I cannot log into PHPMyAdmin. I\'ve tried changing the password in the co

Answer 1

If you indeed forgot the root password to the MySQL server, you need to start it with the option skip-grant-tables. Search for the appropriate Ini-File my.ini (C:\ProgramData\MySQL Server ... or something like this) and add skip-grant-tables to the section [mysqld] like so:

[mysqld]
skip-grant-tables