Hi,
I just created a new droplet and used the “LAMP on Ubuntu 12.04” application to set it all up and have LAMP installed automatically. Works great, but when I want to install phpmyadmin, it asks for the MySQL password. I tried several options like “root” or empty, but it doesn’t work. Where can I find the password for MySQL? Thanks!
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When you install a LAMP droplet in digitalOcean
this is the code to get your mysql password
cat /root/.digitalocean_password
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Your MySQL root password is in /root/.my.cnf and it is different for every droplet, as it is randomly generated for every droplet.
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