Problems connecting to mysql using phpMyAdmin

[Ryan Schmidt]

The docroot should have no effect on your ability to connect to the MySQL server.

You can check whether you are using the old password algorithm by looking for a file called my.cnf and seeing if it contains a line "old-passwords" or similar.

To rule out phpmyadmin as the problem, you could try to write a one-line PHP script to connect to the database and print out whether it was successful. You can try to run this through apache as a web page, and also on the commandline ("php mytest.php"), to see if you get different results.


On Nov 19, 2010, at 01:49, Ali A Samii wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> I am assuming, because I'm not sure how to check this) that the mysql server is NOT configured to use the "old" password algorithm. This is a fresh and clean install, using the MAMP wiki on trac.macports.com and a fresh install of all the various components and variants.
> 
> Using the same basic installation process (but with my documents root in the default /opt/local/apache2/..... hierarchy on another machine, I had no problems. The only difference here is the doc root.
> 
> On 19 Nov, 2010, at 08:44 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Yes, your answer did get through, I just didn't have a response yet.
>> 
>> Only reason I can think of why you could connect to the MySQL server on the command line but not from PHP:
>> 
>> Is your MySQL server (or this root account, anyway) configured to use the "old" (MySQL < 4.1) password algorithm? If so that doesn't work with mysqlnd (which is what php5-mysql now uses by default) so you should either (ideally) upgrade to the "new" algorithm or if you must keep the old algorithm, then install php5-mysql with the +mysql5 variant.