Comments on: Installing phpMyAdmin on Mac OS X

by: Anonymous

Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:20:03 +0000

FAN-Tastic. I'm forever grateful for articles like this that spell it out in plain English for us Isaac Newbs (wannabe genius).

Only had a small issue with the blowfish passphrase thing, but I found the option for that near the top of the config file with ease.

Thanks again, with help like this I'll be joining your ranks soon!

by: Anonymous

Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:41:59 +0000

THANK YOU! Very helpful. Very well done.

by: Gnarlodious

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:05:01 +0000

Here’s a procedure to reset the root password:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Resetting_permissions.html [dev.mysql.com]

However I have not succeeded in finding the described mySQL PID file needed to send a shell command to quit the service.
If you have a StartupItem to launch mySQL it should be possible to say:
sudo -s
root# systemstarter stop MySQL

which works for me.

by: Anonymous

Tue, 25 May 2004 22:51:06 +0000

very useful. just one more thing: the current versions of phpMyAdmin (for example the latest stable at the moment 2.5.6) require in addition to the password configurations as described in config.inc.php another variable. in the line

$cfg[’blowfish_secret’] = ‘pass’;

enter your password, which presumably will be encrypted succesfully wtih the “blowfish” algorithm when phpMyAdmin internally starts the config file.

by: ghouser

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:22:00 +0000

It finally worked for me. I had changed the host name to something other than localhost during system setup and had to go back and redo the hostconfig file, then I had to go back and add a password for MySQL root, which I forgot, then I had to switch from Safari to IE 5.2 because I couldn’t get Safari to load “localhost” even after resetting it, and then I had to click on “Show MySQL runtime information” and then “Privileges” to get the “Add new user” button to come up (MySQL 3.23.53 with phpMyAdmin 2.5.2-rc2 on an XServe), and I had a heck of a time logging out because it kept asking me for passwords until I finally just quit IE 5.2; but in the end it worked, and that made all the difference. Thanks.

by: Rower_CPU

Mon, 07 Jul 2003 21:18:48 +0000

FYI, it’s also possible to set up phpMyAdmin with limited user accounts for different users. Very handy for servers with several projects/people working at once.

It takes a little more work, but it works very well.

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#setup
(scroll down to “Using authentication modes”)

by: WaltFrench

Thu, 03 Jul 2003 22:13:54 +0000

The rote instructions are VERY HELPFUL. However, it'd be nice to have suggestions of where to turn when they don't work.

In my case, everything looked nice & smooth (including having a forgotten download, uEdit, invoked when I double-clicked on the php files). But then, when loading the config URL, I just got a blank screen (not my 404 error message, which another rote page had helped me to configure, after I loaded up all the junk ad URLs into my DNS).

Any idea what gives? Bad pw? Conflict w/ my previous fooling around? (But not, methinks, a previous effort to load PHP) Where should I turn if I'm just trying to fool around & learn SQL/MySQL?

"Inquiring Minds Want to Know!"

by: nkaforey

Thu, 03 Jul 2003 03:51:52 +0000

Excellent and brief article. It got me up and running. Everything worked.

I admit that I needed the handholding to get phpMyAdmin running. Your step by step instructions made all the difference.

Thanks, let's do more!

by: Justin

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:29:39 +0000

If you think you might have forgotten it, the MySQL site has instructions on how to reset the root password [www.mysql.com].

by: dombett

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 21:28:07 +0000

I’ve followed the instructions for installing phpMyAdmin, but I keep getting the following error:

Server localhost
Error
MySQL said:
Access denied for user: “root@localhost” (using password: YES)

Should I assume that I have the mySQL password wrong? If that’s the case and assuming that I have forgotten the mySQL password (or closer to the truth, misremembered it), is there a way to change it from the root user without having the old password?