[SOLVED] Cannot Login to phpmyadmin

Manuel-H · 11-09-2011, 11:42 PM

Hi,

I am stucked and need some assistance here.

I cannot seem to login to my phpmyadmin(v3.4.7) on my browser.(tried using IE,Google,Firefox)
It showed the phpmyadmin login page, but when I enter the username(root) and the password,
the error message "#1043 Cannot log in to the MySQL server" came out.

My MySQL(v5.0.84) server is up and I can login via the CLI. (mysql -u root -p)
I can show the databases and tables via the CLI as well.

I have reset the password for MySQL, flush the privileges.
Restart both MySQL and httpd(v2.2.21, php v5.3.8) too but same error.

Code:

/* Server: localhost [1] */
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['ssl'] = true;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';

-------------- (tried this too) ------
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock';

I searched and found this similar issues but it did not work for me.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...yadmin-819842/

Is there something that I missed out?
Appreciate any suggestion.

EricTRA · 11-10-2011, 12:19 AM

Hello,

One question comes to mind. Are you connecting from your browser to localhost, meaning on the same machine that has MySQL installed and running? Or are you trying to connect from another computer to the MySQL server? If you're connecting from another computer did you setup MySQL to listen on the LAN IP and did you configure your firewall (iptables?) to allow connection?

Kind regards,

Eric

Manuel-H · 11-10-2011, 12:24 AM

Hi EricTRA,

It's all on the same machine(apache,mysql,phpmyadmin), connecting via localhost.

EricTRA · 11-10-2011, 12:31 AM

Hi,

Can you post the output of this command:

Code:

netstat -tunalp | grep :3306

(that is if you didn't change the default port for MySQL).

Kind regards,

Eric

Manuel-H · 11-10-2011, 12:50 AM

The command "netstat -tunalp | grep :3306" did not have an output.

My "ps -ax" output

Code:

 9338 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysql/mysql.pid --skip-networking
 9363 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysql/mysql.pid --skip-external-locking --skip-networking

BTW: I am running Slackware v13.0, kernel 2.6.29.6-smp.

EricTRA · 11-10-2011, 02:25 AM

Hello,

The netstat command should have returned a line like this:

Code:

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:3306          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3139/mysqld

indicating that, in my case, MySQL is only listening on my loopback IP. Check your MySQL configuration file. Also, in the output you posted I saw this:

Code:

--skip-networking

which means (from MySQL Reference:

Quote:

Do not listen for TCP/IP connections at all. All interaction with mysqld must be made using named pipes or shared memory (on Windows) or Unix socket files (on Unix). This option is highly recommended for systems where only local clients are permitted.

I'm sure that once you get that fixed you'll be able to connect.

Kind regards,

Eric

Manuel-H · 11-10-2011, 02:57 AM

My MySQL only accept connection from localhost, so opening port 3306 should not be an issue.
I do not need connection to MySQL from remote host.
Which is why the phpmyadmin connect to the MySQL via localhost(apache).

Actually it was strange, I was comparing with my another web server and it works perfectly fine with "--skip-networking" option and allowing only localhost connection to MySQL.

Manuel-H · 11-10-2011, 09:27 PM

From the Documentation.Txt

I guess, I did not have the phpMyAdmin configuration storage table.
I created it and everything went well now. Thanks all for trying to help.

Code:

phpMyAdmin configuration storage

For a whole set of new features (bookmarks, comments, SQL-history, tracking
mechanism, PDF-generation, column contents transformation, etc.) you need to
create a set of special tables. Those tables can be located in your own
database, or in a central database for a multi-user installation (this database
would then be accessed by the controluser, so no other user should have rights
to it).

Please look at your ./scripts/ directory, where you should find a file called
create_tables.sql. (If you are using a Windows server, pay special attention to
FAQ 1.23).

EricTRA · 11-11-2011, 01:08 AM

Hi,

You're welcome! Glad you got it solved.

Kind regards,

Eric