It is better to set the password of your MySQL (Database server). In order to check whether the mySQL is work or not, Open your browser and enter This will bring you to the MySQL setup page: XAMPP only offers MySQL (Database Server) & Apache (Webserver) in one setup and you can manage them with the xampp starter.Īfter the successful installation navigate to your xampp folder and execute the xampp-control.exe (2) you did not enter the correct URL to your Joomla! install.Today I going to show on how to access MySQL and phpMyAdmin using XAMPP. (1) did not install Joomla! in the htdocs folder / directory If you can’t, it is probably because you either: Hopefully, that will set your language back to English.Īs for accessing Joomla!, you should be able to access the start / intro install page for Joomla! whether or not you have created a database. One possibility is you downloaded a German language version of XAMPP (assuming you are using XAMPP), otherwise, you downloaded a German version of phpMyAdmin.Īnother possibility is that you inadvertently set your install language to German (or, maybe you are using a German language version of Windows and phpMyAdmin is trying to be helpful by setting the language to German).Ģ) Underneath that will be a line and dropdown box with the heading: Sprache – Languageģ) Click on the dropdown box and select English Which version of XAMPP, etc are you using. It would help me to know what your setup is: are you installign under XAMPP, AMPPS, some other host. If you still need help, we can try to work through it. If you are running a different apache / mysql combination (like AMPPS), then you MUST creat a user for the database and use that user's name and password when configuring Joomla!. However, if you setup a root password for XAMPP or enabled security for XAMPP< the the root user will have a password and this must be entered. The default password for XAMPP is blank / empty. For XAMPP it will almost always be root, unless you have added a database user, in which case it would be the database user name It most cases it will be localhost, the only time it wouldn’t be localhost is if the MySQL server is on a different machine from the installation (but that is rarely the case). It should be either MySQL or MySQLi (at least, I haven’t noticed any difference between the two). (1) wrong database type specified in the Joomla! install. (2) you have not enabled any passwords or security features for XAMPP This database can now be used by any application that requires a MySQL database – for example, Joomla!.īy default, the username for this database is root and the password is blank (there is none). There should be no need to change the other settings:ģ) Ensure the database was successfully created: For example: joomla_database or database_for_drupal. A good name should indicate the purpose of the database. Avoid using numbers at the start of the name. The name must be 64 characters or less and composed of letters, numbers and underscores. With XAMPP installed, this is easy to do.ġ) Open your browser and enter This will bring you to the MySQL setup page:Ģ) Enter a name for the database, then click on the Create button. Many applications, such as Joomla! require an SQL database as part of their setup. The procedure should be the same for other versions of XAMPP.Ī XAMPP installation procedure for Windows can be found here. This tutorial assumes that you have XAMPP 1.7.3 installed.
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