#1130 - Host ‘localhost’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

Question

I issued a command of:

DROP USER \'root\'@\'localhost\'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO \'root\'@\'%\';

...in PhpMyAdmin. Immediately after t

Answer 1

Use the IP instead:

DROP USER 'root'@'127.0.0.1'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO 'root'@'%';

For more possibilities, see this link.

To create the root user, seeing as MySQL is local & all, execute the following from the command line (Start > Run > "cmd" without quotes):

mysqladmin -u root password 'mynewpassword'

Documentation, and Lost root access in MySQL.