MAMP - phpMyAdmin #2002 - Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock'

Question

I was working on MAMP phpMyAdmin and everything worked well until i query an ALTER TABLE statement from SQL tab. Operation was too long to end so i decided to r

Answer 1

I got the same response when I went to the default URI via the link from the main Mamp page, which was http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/?lang=en-iso-8859-1&language=English. I tried the previous answer's suggestions to no avail. But then, when I chopped off some of the options in the URI and instead just went to any of the following:

• http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/?language=English
• http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/?lang=en-iso-8859-1
• http://localhost/phpMyAdmin

then it worked.