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Hey guys, I just installed xampp 1.7.7 and I having trouble getting phpmyadmin to work. When trying to access I get this error message "#2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured)". I install all programs on my slave drive (E:) to keep the operating system drive clear (C:). I installed xampp at E:\progam_files\. Xampp control panel says MYSQL is running. Also when typing localhost in the browser I get nothing but when typing the physical ip xampp/index.php loads.

Any ideas? Perhaps because I installed on a sub directory or on my slave disk.

Thanks so much in advance.

You can try binding it to localhost as this sometimes fixes that issue.

Open your my.ini file (/xampp/mysql/bin/my.ini) and change

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#bind-address="127.0.0.1"

to

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bind-address="127.0.0.1"

and restart MySQL if it is running.

Now, make sure to also manually refresh that phpMyAdmin page so you do not load a cached error page.

hackattack142, thank you for the quick response. I appreciate it, unfortunately it didn't work. Any other suggestions?

Make sure your HOSTS file is correct for the localhost issue:
Open this file: C:\Windows\Sytem32\Drivers\etc\HOSTS

Then find the following line and remove the leading '#' character.

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    #   127.0.0.1       localhost

If it is not there then add that line without the hash as the first line after all the comments.

PURE MAGIC. That solved the problem, thank you hackattack142!

the first solution worked for me w/ win xp and new install of xammp. the second solution given above was already set up with the local host setting but it was entered twice and i removed one instance of it.

wow i appreciate the help