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"Cannot log in to the MySQL server" without code using phpMyAdmin on CentOS7
I’ve set up a new CentOS 7 server with Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin using Digital Ocean’s guides. However, when I try to log in to phpMyAdmin via the browser, I get the message “Cannot log in to the MySQL server” without any error code.
For testing purposes I’ve set the IP addresses in phpMyAdmin.conf to Require all granted.
I have two accounts in MySQL, namely the root user and a user ‘niels’, which I gave all permissions. Logging in to MySQL via the command line works fine for both accounts. Only the phpMyAdmin web version is doing something unexpected.
Thank you!
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Assuming MySQL 8.
ALTER USER root IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'PASSWORD';
Reason: Some applications are having trouble with caching _sha2 _password method. Above sets the credentials to use the native one.
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Can you post the content of your config.inc.php?
The result of that command looks like this: tcp6 0 0 :::33060 :::* LISTEN 3690/mysqld tcp6 0 0 :::3306 :::* LISTEN 3690/mysqld
phpMyAdmin does not give any code. Just the message.
Hi
What did you use as your “host” in the PHPMyAdmin config? Depending on what you have there, the system (/etc/hosts) could interpret it differently and all of a sudden MySQL “thinks” the connection is remote. For which you probably don’t have the grants. Sometimes a mere difference of “127.0.0.1” and “localhost” could confuse things. Try setting the host to “127.0.0.1” to skip /etc/hosts and rule this issue out.