Trying to set up PHP stuff for the first time. Need help

[BadNewsBears]

I am using phpmyadmin. Great utility from what I hear. Everytime I try to open up any files in the phpmyadmin folder in my apache root, they say

""Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.3.3pl1


Error

MySQL said:


Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)""

Well phpmyadmin is kinda supposed to make a database, isnt it? Well when I go to any onther php file anywhere on my server I get
""
Warning: Failed opening '//catalog/includes/data/rates.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:/ServerCriticalPrograms/PHPDEV/php/includes;C:/ServerCriticalPrograms/PHPDEV/php/class') in c:\servercriticalprograms\phpdev\www\store\catalog\admin\includes\include_once.php on line 4

Warning: Failed opening 'includes/languages/english/' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:/ServerCriticalPrograms/PHPDEV/php/includes;C:/ServerCriticalPrograms/PHPDEV/php/class') in c:\servercriticalprograms\phpdev\www\store\catalog\admin\includes\include_once.php on line 4
Unable to connect to database server!""""""

Anyone know what could be wrong?

 

[vortix]

Looks to me that PHPMyAdmin is having a problem connecting to MySQL. If that is the case, first make sure MySQL is running (should run on port 3306 by default - if you can telnet to port 3306 on that machine you should be OK). Next, go to your PHPMyAdmin folder and open the config.inc.php file in a text editor such as notepad. Now, go down to the Server Configuration area and look at the various settings there. Make sure the correct username/password are set. If you did a fresh install of MySQL, the username should be 'root' and the password should be blank. I'm guessing your username/password info in that file are incorrect....so give that a try and let us know if that fixed the problem or not 🙂