I installed the lampp sever on my local in linux OS, but its giving error while opening phpmyadmin.
#2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured)
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check if MySQL is running with this command
mysqladmin -u root -p status
if it is running it will ask for your password otherwise it will spit out an error
Flakron Bytyqi
2010-07-12 11:25:05
yes,it asking for password ,I have to enter mysqlpassword. but I didnt assign any password,when I enter its giving errorconnect to server at localhost failed.
Deepali
2010-07-12 11:27:11
did you set a password when you installed mysql?
Flakron Bytyqi
2010-07-12 11:29:44
no I didnt assign a pwd,can't connect to localmysql sever through socket
Deepali
2010-07-12 11:31:03
set a password thenmysql -u rootSET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('your_new_password');
Flakron Bytyqi
2010-07-12 11:33:34
after enterting pwd its giviing following error:mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failederror: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)'Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' exists!
Deepali
2010-07-12 11:45:47
which linux distro are you using?
Flakron Bytyqi
2010-07-12 12:02:35