Posted by David Quinton on 01/02/07 07:48

On 1 Jan 2007 13:37:02 -0800, "Mike" <mikedawg@gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm unable to connect to my MySQL database with phpmyadmin when:
[snip]
>Is there something I should look for, I don't know why I'm not able to
>use localhost as opposed to the actual computer name?

IIRC this one caught me out too. It's down to MySQL Privileges, not
PhpMyAdmin I think.

When you allow access to a db (using the hosts column of the mysql.db
table) from *any* IP address - i.e. "%" - that does NOT include
localhost.
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