MacOS Jaguar , mySQL and phpMyAdmin

[Rodland]

I've slowly been setting up my mac so I can test and build osCommerce locally. Before working on osCommerce I believe there are four steps to make this work on OS X.

 

1. Turn on Apache web server. - done

2. Enable PHP -done

3. Intall mySQL (3.23.53) -probs

4. Install and configure phpMyAdmin (2.3.3) -probs

 

I have done all of these but I am having real problems with the root passwords of mySQL. As you will see I am unable to access phpMyAdmin from:

 

Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.3.3

 

 

Error

 

MySQL said:

 

 

Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)

 

I don't think its just a case of me getting the password wrong in config.inc.php (in phpMyAdmin) . I have tried to change the mySQL password - but have been refused access to this. I don't even know if I have actually created a password since I've tried to dump mySQL and reinstall it. I've tried to follow all the steps provided by the mySQL to change/alter the passwords.

 

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or how to do this right? I only have this to do before I can start working on osCommerce. Any help will be very much appreciated.

 

Christian

[Rodland]

Nobody?

[gevans]

Are you using Mark Liyanage's mysql package for OS X? If you are did you follow this last step?

 

mysqladmin -u root password new_passwd

[Rodland]

yes - I worked it out - but had to erase and reinstall sql first. Obviously couldn't remember a password that I didn't think I had created when I first started experimenting with it. Thanks anyway.

 

Christian