phpmyadmin not working [Solved]

[puma10]

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.

[hackattack142]

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.

[puma10]

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

[hackattack142]

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.

[puma10]

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

[hubiedo]

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