Cannot login as root in phpmyadmin, installed on Ubuntu LAMP 16.04 Droplet

August 27, 2017 3.3k

MySQL Ubuntu 16.04

By:

srikap

Hi all,

I have installed phpmyadmin on my LAMP droplet using this tutorial

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-16-04

but I cannot login as root user using the password i setup during installation.

Any ideas?

Thank you

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1 Answer

Aprexer August 27, 2017

Accepted Answer

Purge Mysql and install it again with a new password

srikap August 27, 2017

Thank you so much !!!

For anyone in the same boat:

sudo apt-get remove dbconfig-mysql

sudo apt-get purge mysql*

sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

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