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Cannot access phpmyadmin. Everytime I enter the username and password the given error is shown...
The server is not responding (or the local server's socket is not correctly configured).
I had this error and it caused me a lot of headaches! However, I found that restarting SQL fixed it for me. I had to try restarting a couple of times but it did eventually work. I used the Stop command followed by the Start command.
The commands you want are:
Start:
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
Stop:
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Restart / reload configs:
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
These were taken from:
Try walking through the set up steps for the pset again. You may not have correctly configured the permissions. Did you get any errors when trying to modify the host file as specified in the pset instructions below?
sudo gedit /etc/hosts in order to run gedit as the appliance’s "superuser" (aka "root") so that you can edit what’s otherwise a read-only file. Carefully add this line at the bottom of that file, which will associate pset7 with the appliance’s "loopback" address (which won’t ever change):
127.0.0.1 pset7 Then save the file and quit gedit.
If that fails to help, you may want to reference this thread on StackExchange.
I checked the /etc/hosts several times
It has the line suggested.
I've been browsing the stackexchange thread but when I do things like mysql.server start, I get mysqlserver: command not found.
I've gone back and checked all the file and directory permissions.
Most of the stackexchange comments I don't understand. They reference my.cnf which I can't find.
