[thelist] [work] RE: MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Windows Server

[Matt Warden]

On 12/15/05, Hershel Robinson <hershelr at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> Jay Blanchard wrote:
>  > [snip]
>  > I tried something like that, however, on another Windows box and I could
>  > not get phpMyAdmin to work.
>  > [/snip]
>  >
>  > What, exactly, do you mean that you couldn't get phpMyAdmin to work? Does
>  > the app run but not connect to your database? Is MySQL running? Give
> us some
>  > more details.
>
> What? Details? Error codes?
>
> :)
>
> Yes, MySQL runs fine. As I said, the GUI to MySQL works fine. I have
> already taken phpMyAdmin off that machine but if I recall it was giving
> me an error message that the MySQL client isn't doing cookies or
> something like that correctly. This was a while ago.

Wild guess, but this is probably a problem in the config file.
Specifically, the section about authentication. If you can't get
cookies to work, there are other authentication methods you can use.
See the setup documentation (it's pretty good).

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Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
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