The server is not responding or the local MySQL server s socket is not correctly configured in wamp server

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I am currently getting this error in my phpmyadmin  2002 - The server is not responding  or the local MySQL server s socket is not correctly configured  I tried googling and give each solutions i found a try  Unfortunately  nothing worked for me  By the way  I am using wamp server  Below is my configuration file of config inc php from C  wamp apps phpmyadmin3 2 0 1   lt  php     Servers configuration     i   0      Server  localhost  1      i     cfg  Servers    i   verbose      localhost    cfg  Servers    i   host      localhost    cfg  Servers    i   port          cfg  Servers    i   socket       tmp mysql sock    cfg  Servers    i   connect type      tcp    cfg  Servers    i   extension      mysqli    cfg  Servers    i   auth type      config    cfg  Servers    i   user      root    cfg  Servers    i   password          cfg  Servers    i   AllowNoPassword     true      End of servers configuration      cfg  DefaultLang      en-utf-8    cfg  ServerDefault     1   cfg  UploadDir          cfg  SaveDir            gt

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I had a similar issues fresh install and same error surprising. Finally I figured out it was a problem with browser cookies...

Try cleaning your browser cookies and see it helps to resolve this issue, before even trying any configuration changes.
Try using XAMPP Control panel "Admin" button instead of usual http://localhost or http://localhost/phpmyadmin
Try direct link: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/main.php or http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/main.php
Finally try this: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php?db=phpmyadmin&server=1&target=db_structure.php

Somehow if you have old installation and you upgraded to new version it keeps track of your old settings through cookies.

If this solution helped let me know.

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I use XAMPP and had the same error   I used Paul Gob  e solution above and it worked for me  I navigated to C  xampp mysql bin mysqld-debug exe and upon starting the  exe my Windows Firewall popped up asking for permission   Once I allowed it  it worked fine  I would have commented under his post but I do not have that much rep yet    sry  Just wanted to let everyone know this worked for me as well

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There are possible solutions here  http   forums mysql com read php 35 64808 254785 msg-254785 and here  http   forums mysql com read php 35 23138 254786 msg-254786  All of these are config settings  In my case I have two computers with everything in XAMPP synced  On the other computer phpMyAdmin did start normally  So the problem in my case seemed to be with the specific computer  not the config files  Stopping firewall didn t help   Finally  more or less by accident  I bumped into the file      path to XAMPP XAMPP    mysql bin mysqld-debug exe  Doubleclicking that file miraculously gave me back PhpMyAdmin  Posted here in case anyone might be helped by this too

User · Answer

mysql default port is 3306 can you try putting it and then try

User · Answer

I face the same problem and changing     cfg  Servers    i   host      localhost    to     cfg  Servers    i   host      127 0 0 1    Solved this issue

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If you use MAMP  make sure it s started      I just ran into this problem  and after starting MAMP the error went away  Not my finest moment

[mysql] The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured) in wamp server

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