lerxst2112 the setup guide has you run the command: SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('your_pasword'); which worked as I was able to build the database in the later steps.
I can access the database with the command: mysql -uroot -pyourpassword peq with out issue (I set a password), but I am going to run the comand in the XAMPP guide you sent me.
Edit:
I ran "mysqladmin.exe -u root password secret" where I changed 'secret' to a new password and I still receive Error: #1045
Thanks for the attempt though man.
On a side note, if i select Shell from XAMPP Control Panel the prompt and run the above command returns Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)' but the same command did not return an error from a cmd prompt opened from the start menu.
Also:
http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and /security windows open as blank pages. (the page was blank because skype was using port 443 and it wouldn't let apache start) After I closed skype the page came up with "ACCESS DENIED Error: 1045)
As this was an XAMPP issue it was easy to find an answer:
http://www.ostraining.com/blog/codin...45-phpmyadmin/
I corrected the localhost/phpadmin issue by editing the password in config.inc.php and was able to access the php admin console. I see what was meant by the password used =yes or no. So I went into the users area and changed the password of the localhost that had a password set to YES to the password I set for my sql root account. I also made a new user account named eq@localhost (my 1045 error says access denied to eq@localhost) then i stopped and restarted sql, apache, and XAMPP, and that didn't work so I restarted my computer. That didn't work either so I came back to update my post with my new failure.
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