Posted by imqqmi on 11/01/06 14:48

I am just a newbe at this though, but I came across this error as well.
I use IIS on windows 2000 locally for testing website baker. I'm really
impressed with this simple to use cms system. Anyway, at first I didn't
RTFM either, or just skimmed through it :) I got bitten by the #1045
error no matter what I changed in the config.inc.php file located in
the config folder. I copied the config.default.php to this folder but
didn't work (after renaming it to config.inc.php of course). The
solution was so simple, if I had just read a little further in the
manual. Just move it to the phpMyAdmin root folder. Logging in worked
like a charm.
If that doesn't help, check if you can log into mysql console in a
dosbox:

mysql -u root -p

If you can, use those credentials to get into phpMyAdmin (edit the
config.inc.php, auth_type to cookie).

I agree with you that most open source software won't win any user
friendliness contests. But that's my own ignorance and lack of
knowledge. It's getting better and better over time though.

mistral wrote:
> phpMyAdmin 2.6.2 problem: can no connects to mySQL database: each time
> shown error #1045 - Access denied for user 'username'@'192.168.1.2'
> (using password: YES)
> Is seems, this is most common problem for mySOL and phpMyAdmin.
> Extremelly ugly and inconvenient program.

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