hi david,
with the first installation I had a little bit of trouble getting the things work right because I changed the password (dreamweaver needs one) and lost controll of what I had done.
so I just deleted the whole wampp-folder and reinstalled wampp, taking absolutely care of the steb-by-step instructions.
I tested it without changing anything and it worked.
therafter I did that password-stuff.
remember these lines in the instructions!
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MySQL starts with standard values for the user id and the password. The preset
user id is "root", the password is "" (= no password). To access MySQL via PHP
with the preset values, you'll have to use the following syntax:
mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
If you want to set a password for MySQL access, please make use of mysqladmin.
To set the passwort "secret" for the user "root", type the following:
C:\wampp2\mysql\bin\mysqladmin - u root password secret
After changing the password you'll have to reconfigure PHPMyAdmin to use the
new password, otherwise it won't be able to access the databases. To do that,
open the file config.inc.php in \wampp2\phpmyadmin\ and edit the
following lines:
$cfgServers[1]['user'] = 'root'; // MySQL user
$cfgServers[1]['password'] = 'secret'; // MySQL password
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now everything os OK!!
sorry, I can't give any other hints because I'm an absolutely WAMPP newbie!!
good luck
zappa