Friday, October 30, 2009

WAMP password reminder

when phpmyadmin displays this error:

Your configuration file contains settings (root with no password) that correspond to the default MySQL privileged account. Your MySQL server is running with this default, is open to intrusion, and you really should fix this security hole by setting a password

to change user password in wamp:

1. open phpmyadmin

2. click on privileges

3. click 'edit previelges' (little icon at the end) for user 'root'

4. scroll down to 'change password'. chuck in your password and hit 'Go'

5. repeat steps 3 and 4 for user 'localhost'

6. open your config.inc.php file from your wamp install directory. mine is c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.2.0.1/

7. find this line $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] and chuck your password here.

8. restart wamp and browsers ;]

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