Question
"Cannot log in to the MySQL server" without code using phpMyAdmin on CentOS7
- Posted on November 21, 2018
- MySQLDatabasesCentOS
Asked by Niels Kersic
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.