Newbie can't create new database in MySql

[tomhirt]

Sorry for this stupid question. But I'm such a noob with this. I just installed xampp and appears everything is working. However, I guess I locked down security too soon, as I can't use PHPMyadmin to create a database. Is there a way allow MySQl to be accessable again via PHPMyAdmin? I think I just need to create a database for Wordpress, and it will create the necesary tables for me. I just need the database created first.

tried using the Mysqladmin Create dbname on the root console but getting localhost failed.

[Fabre]

When you say you can't use PHPMyadmin to create a database, do you mean you can't create a db or that you don't have access?

[deepsurfer]

tried using the Mysqladmin Create dbname on the root console but getting localhost failed.

have you typing this in console ?
cd /opt/lampp/bin
./mysqladmin -uroot -pPASS -hlocalhost create dbname