How to Log in to PHPmyadmin with Wamp, What Is the Username and Password

How to log in to phpMyAdmin with WAMP, what is the username and password?

Try username = root and password is blank.

unable to login phpMyAdmin using WAMP

When you install WAMP, it comes with a standard install of MySQL. The standard user for MySQL is root and there is no password.

Before you can add your own user ashish, you need to log in as root and add this user (or just use root if it's for testing only).

Regaining access to lost MySQL password for PHPMyAdmin on WAMP

Here is a method that will allow you to reset the MYSQL 'root' password quite simply.

Stop the mysql service

wampmanager -> MySQL -> Service -> Stop Service

Edit the my.ini file

wampmanager -> MySQL -> my.ini

Find the [wampmysqld](32bit) or [wampmysqld64](64bit) section in the ini file

Add this line directly after that section heading

skip-grant-tables

Restart the mysql service.

wampmanager -> MySQL -> Service -> Start/Resume Service

Open the MySQL console

wampmanager -> MySQL -> MySQL Console

Now we are going to reset the password for the root user, of course this could be used to reset any users password.

Enter the following 2 commands at the mysql> command prompt, each with a semi colon at the end of a line, and press ENTER after each line to issue the command to mysql.

Pre MYSQL version 5.7

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('MyNewPass') WHERE User='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Post MYSQL version 5.7 the column name changed

UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string=PASSWORD('MyNewPass') WHERE User='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Note that the update may report that it has updated more than one row, that because there may be more than one user accounts with the userid of 'root' each with a different domain i.e. 127.0.0.1, localhost and ::1

Now enter 'quit' at the mysql command promt to exist mysql.

Stop the mysql service

wampmanager -> MySQL -> Service -> Stop Service

Edit the my.ini file

wampmanager -> MySQL -> my.ini

Find the [wampmysqld](32bit) or [wampmysqld64](64bit) section in the ini file

Remove the skip-grant-tables parameter we added earlier.

DO NOT Leave this parameter in the ini file its a HUGH security hole.

Restart the mysql service.

wampmanager -> MySQL -> Service -> Start/Resume Service

Now if you want you can set the root user account so it does not expire the password automatically

wampmanager -> MySQL -> MySQL Console

and then run this query

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' PASSWORD EXPIRE NEVER;

You should now be able to login with phpmyadmin using the userid 'root' and the new password you have just set for that user.

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