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PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
When I select the phpMyAdmin hyperlink from the "XAMPP For Windows" page, I get a page displayed thats says:

ERROR
MySQL said:
#1130 - Host '%$' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

BACKGROUND:
I am using a Windows Vista PC and I am just using this PC to learn php, it is not a "real" server environment.

I just installed XAMPP 1.7.7 on my Windows Vista machine. I am able to enter "localhost" and the "XAMPP For Windows" page displays just fine.

When I access the XAMPP control panel, Apache says "running" and is button to the right is green and MySQL is running and the button next to it is green.

When I attempt to take the phpMyAdmin link on the "XAMPP For Windows" page, I get the above error.

Please advise me as to how to get past this error message.

Have you changed any settings in any configuration files at all?

Have you had a previous phpMyAdmin or MySQL installed before XAMPP

Have you uninstalled and reinstalled XAMPP a few times before this last installation?

Did you use the installer version or an archive version to install XAMPP?

Are you an Administrator in Vista?


When I researched this I found that it could be related to a setting in the MySQL my.ini file.

If you open \xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini file in your text editor and uncomment, remove the # from this line so it looks like this

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bind-address="127.0.0.1"

save the file and restart MySQL then try again to access.

Also make sure that in your Windows hosts file this line is the first line after all the comments

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127.0.0.1 localhost

Just as an addition try using the new Version 3 control panel found in the xampp folder as it has more helpful features:
xampp-control-3-beta.exe
First close the older 2.5 version then right click on the above exe and select to run as admin.

The latest version XCPv3 can be found in a link in my signature.

Thank you so very much for your help.

I am still not having success after implementing the changes that you suggested.

Your suggestions were very easy to understand and implement which I really appreciate because I am new to XAMPP and MySql and pHp.

I love the XAMPP3 control panel beta you suggested for many reasons. It is so well organized and has so many useful features.

Using the beta3 version of the control panel I was able to locate the mysql log file and that log file contains lots of error messages.

I think I am going to research the errors and see if they lead me to a solution to the issue.

Here is a portion of the MYSQL error log:

111215 18:22:49 InnoDB: Operating system error number 32 in a file operation.
InnoDB: The error means that another program is using InnoDB's files.
InnoDB: This might be a backup or antivirus software or another instance
InnoDB: of MySQL. Please close it to get rid of this error.
111215 18:22:59 InnoDB: Operating system error number 32 in a file operation.
InnoDB: The error means that another program is using InnoDB's files.
InnoDB: This might be a backup or antivirus software or another instance
InnoDB: of MySQL. Please close it to get rid of this error.

The 2nd and 3rd question in my first post may be related as I suspected that you may have another instance of MySQL or had another instance perhaps in a PHP IDE or some other program like Eclipse or similar and may be a place to start looking.

Also do a file search on your PC for my.ini as there should be only the one in the \xampp\mysql\bin folder.

Good look and best wishes.