Question

Using phpmyadmin, I changed the password for user root (both the localhost entry and the 127.0.0.1 entry) from blank to “password”. I was then locked out of phpmyadmin, getting the 1130 error: “Host ‘localhost’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server”

I did a bunch of searching on stackoverflow and found a solution that gets me back into phpmyadmin:

I simply add the line “skip-grant-tables” to the [mysqld] section of “my.ini”.

But that seems like a bad solution, like I am just circumventing the problem rather than fixing it. I also tried another solution in which I add my username and password to “config.inc.php” in this section:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'mypass';

but that has no effect. So my questions are:

1. Why would adding a password to root lock me out of phpmyadmin in the first place? Shouldn’t it just bring me to a login screen?

2. What is the proper way to fix this?

Thanks
Jonah

Answer 1

1. depending on the configuration you chose, it can lock you out completely.
2. delete the configuration files and reupload the config wizard and create a new configuration.