by conticreative » 02. December 2008 21:44
The same thing just happened to me. I have been using WAMP for some time but it doesn't work on Vista. So I tried Xampp and I am actually impressed. It worked like a charm. Until I changed the root password. Since then, I restarted, reinstalled, etc. but I still get the same phpmyadmin message.
Now I remember that the same issue happened to me with WAMP but I was able to fix it with a reinstall one and the last time with a simple change in the command line.
In xampp I can;t find the command line (I will, just haven't looked) .
What I find completely idiotic is that this happens all the time and the fix, or an alert on how to change the password, should be in the FAQ in bold letters. No one wants to see a security message so the first thing you do is change the password. Except that once you do you are screwed and cannot login anymore. If this isn'
t moronic I don;t know what is.It's not just a matter of inexperienced users, you can bet I won't make that mistake again, but it's a matter of the interface being intuitive. The PMA interface is not in that regard. Simple as that. Apache friends should 1) respond to the many messages like this one and post a fix and/or guidelines once and for all, b) there should be an "How to set up phpmyadmin help file right on the page or in xampp homepage. Too many newbies make this mistake and spend an afternoon fixing it.
Done.
-- Marco Conti
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