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Posted by Patrick Marshall
Patrick Marshall
1,712 Points

Using phpMyAdmin on XAMPP

I am using XAMP to create a database for a website I am toying around with after doing php and sql on Treehouse.

Everytime I load phpMyadmin it tells me I should reset the root password so I do but then everytime I do I get this : error 1045ing: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/..

how do I just set up a root password and not mess up all my XAMPP settings and how would I correct this error?

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Cody Brantley
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Cody Brantley
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 3,356 Points
Cody Brantley
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Cody Brantley
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 3,356 Points

Hey Patrick, I believe you can navigate to http://localhost/security/xamppsecurity.php and from there you should be able to update your MySQL root password, when you do that and reload phpMyAdmin, it will ask you to login again, and then you use your new credentials.